Ezekiel 3:8
Good News Translation
Now I will make you as stubborn and as tough as they are.

New Revised Standard Version
See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

Contemporary English Version
so I will make you as stubborn as they are.

New American Bible
Look! I make your face as hard as theirs, and your brow as stubborn as theirs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.

Exodus 4:15,16 Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his month, and will shew you what you must do. . . .

Exodus 11:4-8 And he said: Thus saith the Lord: At midnight I will enter into Egypt: . . .

1 Kings 21:20 And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said: I have found thee because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the Lord.

Isaiah 50:7 The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded.

Jeremiah 1:18 For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and a pillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land, to the kings of Juda, to the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to the people of the land.

Jeremiah 15:20 And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall of brass: and they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

Micah 3:8 And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there is no answer of God.

Acts 7:51-56 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also. . . .

Hebrews 11:27,32-37 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the fierceness of the king: for he endured, as seeing him that is invisible. . . .

Context
Ezekiel Eats the Scroll
7But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and an obstinate heart. 8Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.9I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint: fear them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for they are a provoking house.…
Cross References
Isaiah 50:7
The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded.

Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.

Ezekiel 3:7
But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and an obstinate heart.

Ezekiel 3:9
I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint: fear them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for they are a provoking house.

Ezekiel 3:7
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