And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people, that hath revolted from me, they, and their fathers, have transgressed my covenant even unto this day.

And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people, that hath revolted from me, they, and their fathers, have transgressed my covenant even unto this day.

I send

Ezekiel 3:4-8 And he said to me: Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and thou shalt speak my words to them. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:15,16 And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place. . . .

Isaiah 6:8-10 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me. . . .

Jeremiah 1:7 And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee, thou shalt speak.

Jeremiah 7:2 Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord.

Jeremiah 25:3-7 From the thirteenth year of Josias the son of Ammon king of Juda until this day: this is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising before day, and speaking, and you have not hearkened. . . .

Jeremiah 26:2-6 Thus saith the Lord: stand in the court of the house of the Lord, and speak to all the cities of Juda, out of which they come, to adore in the house of the Lord, all the words which I have commanded thee to speak unto them: leave not out one word. . . .

Jeremiah 36:2 Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against all the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias even to this day.

Mark 12:2-5 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. . . .

Luke 24:47,48 And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. . . .

John 20:21,22 He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. . . .

Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of good things?

a rebellious nation.

Ezekiel 16:1-63 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: . . .

Ezekiel 20:1-49 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month: there came men of the ancients of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me. . . .

Ezekiel 23:1-49 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: . . .

rebelled

Ezekiel 20:18-30 And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols: . . .

Numbers 20:10 And having gathered together the multitude before the rock, he said to them: Hear, ye rebellious and incredulous: Can we bring you forth water out of this rock?

Numbers 32:13,14 And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed. . . .

Deuteronomy 9:24,27 But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you. . . .

1 Samuel 8:7,8 And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them. . . .

2 Kings 17:17-20 And consecrated their sons, and their daughters, through fire: and they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they delivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him. . . .

Ezekiel 9:7 And he said to them: Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew them that were in the city.

Nehemiah 9:16-18,26,33-35 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments. . . .

Psalm 106:16-21,28,32-40 And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord. . . .

Jeremiah 3:25 We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 16:11,12 Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook me, saith the Lord: and went after strange gods, and served them, and adored them: and they forsook me, and kept not my law. . . .

Ezekiel 44:21 And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.

Daniel 9:5-13 We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and thy judgments. . . .

Acts 7:51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.