Ezekiel 3:1-13 ▼

1 And He says to me, “Son of man, eat that which you find, eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”

2 And I open my mouth, and He causes me to eat this scroll.

3 And He says to me, “Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I am giving to you”; and I eat it, and it is as honey for sweetness in my mouth.

4 And He says to me, “Son of man, go forth, go to the house of Israel, and you have spoken to them with My words.

5 For you [are] not sent to a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue—to the house of Israel;

6 not to many peoples, deep of lip and heavy of tongue, whose words you do not understand. If I had not sent you to them—they listen to you,

7 but the house of Israel are not willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to Me, for all the house of Israel are brazen-faced and strong-hearted.

8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their face, and your forehead strong against their forehead.

9 As an adamant, harder than a rock, I have made your forehead; do not fear them, nor are you frightened before them, for they [are] a house of rebellion.”

10 And He says to me, “Son of man, all My words that I speak to you, receive with your heart, and hear with your ears;

11 and go forth, go to the expulsion, to the sons of your people, and you have spoken to them, and have said to them: Thus said Lord YHWH; whether they hear, or whether they refrain.”

12 And a spirit lifts me up, and I hear a noise behind me, a great rushing—“Blessed [is] the glory of YHWH from His place!”

13 Even a noise of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and a noise of the wheels alongside them, even a noise of a great rushing.