Ezekiel 3

1He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”Cross-references: Jer 24:1 · Ezek 2:3 · Ezek 2:8 · Ezek 3:10 · Ezek 3:15 · Ezek 3:17 · +2 more

2So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.Cross-references: Jer 25:17 · Acts 26:19

3He said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your belly and your bowels with it.” Then I ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth.Cross-references: Job 23:12 · Job 32:18 · Ps 19:10 · Ps 119:11 · Ps 119:97 · Ps 119:103 · +9 more

4He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.Cross-references: Ezek 2:3 · Ezek 2:7 · Ezek 3:11 · Matt 10:5 · Matt 15:24 · Acts 1:8

5For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel—Cross-references: Ps 81:5 · Isa 28:11 · Isa 33:19 · Ezek 3:6 · Jonah 1:2 · Jonah 3:2 · +1 more

6not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.Cross-references: Jonah 3:5 · Matt 11:20 · Matt 12:41 · Luke 11:30 · Acts 27:28 · Rom 9:30

7But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.Cross-references: 1Sam 8:7 · Isa 3:9 · Jer 3:3 · Jer 5:3 · Jer 25:3 · Jer 44:4 · +8 more

8Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.Cross-references: Ex 4:15 · Ex 11:4 · 1Ki 21:20 · Isa 50:7 · Jer 1:18 · Jer 15:20 · +4 more

9I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”Cross-references: Isa 41:10 · Isa 41:14 · Isa 50:7 · Jer 1:8 · Jer 1:17 · Jer 17:18 · +5 more

10Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.Cross-references: Job 22:22 · Ps 119:11 · Prov 8:10 · Prov 19:20 · Ezek 2:8 · Ezek 3:1 · +3 more

11Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.”Cross-references: Ex 32:7 · Deut 9:12 · Ezek 2:5 · Ezek 2:7 · Ezek 3:15 · Ezek 3:27 · +9 more

12Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, “Blessed be Yahweh’s glory from his place.”Cross-references: Ex 40:34 · 1Sam 4:21 · 1Ki 18:12 · 2Ki 2:16 · Ps 72:18 · Ps 103:20 · +17 more

13I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.Cross-references: 2Sam 5:24 · Ezek 1:15 · Ezek 1:24 · Ezek 10:5 · Ezek 10:16

14So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.Cross-references: Num 11:11 · 1Ki 18:46 · 2Ki 2:16 · 2Ki 3:15 · Jer 6:11 · Jer 20:7 · +9 more

15Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv who lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.Cross-references: Gen 50:10 · Job 2:13 · Ps 137:1 · Jer 23:9 · Ezek 1:1 · Ezek 3:23 · +3 more

16At the end of seven days, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,Cross-references: Jer 42:7

17“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.Cross-references: 2Chr 19:10 · Song 3:3 · Song 5:7 · Isa 21:6 · Isa 21:8 · Isa 21:11 · +18 more

18When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.Cross-references: Gen 2:17 · Gen 3:3 · Gen 9:5 · Gen 42:22 · Num 26:65 · 2Sam 4:11 · +23 more

19Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”Cross-references: 2Ki 17:13 · 2Chr 36:15 · Prov 29:1 · Isa 49:4 · Jer 42:19 · Jer 44:4 · +17 more

20“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.Cross-references: Lev 19:17 · Deut 13:3 · 2Sam 12:7 · 2Chr 19:2 · 2Chr 24:2 · 2Chr 24:17 · +34 more

21Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”Cross-references: Ps 19:11 · Prov 9:9 · Prov 17:10 · Ezek 3:19 · Matt 24:24 · Acts 20:31 · +16 more

22Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”Cross-references: Ezek 1:3 · Ezek 3:14 · Ezek 8:4 · Ezek 37:1 · Acts 9:6

23Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, Yahweh’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face.Cross-references: Num 16:19 · Num 16:42 · Ezek 1:1 · Ezek 1:28 · Ezek 9:3 · Ezek 10:18 · +7 more

24Then the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me, and said to me, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.Cross-references: Ezek 2:2 · Ezek 4:1 · Ezek 37:10 · Dan 10:8 · Dan 10:19

25But you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will bind you with them, and you will not go out among them.Cross-references: Ezek 4:8 · Mark 3:21 · John 21:18 · Acts 9:16 · Acts 20:23 · Acts 21:11

26I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and will not be able to correct them, for they are a rebellious house.Cross-references: Ps 36:11 · Ps 51:15 · Ps 137:6 · Isa 1:2 · Jer 1:17 · Lam 2:9 · +7 more

27But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”Cross-references: Ex 4:11 · Ezek 2:5 · Ezek 3:9 · Ezek 3:11 · Ezek 3:26 · Ezek 11:25 · +10 more