ULT EZE Chapter 3

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3 Then he said to me, “Son of man, that which you have found, eat. Eat that scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” 2 So I opened my mouth, and he made me eat that scroll. 3 And he said to me, “Son of man, you shall make your belly eat, and you shall fill your stomach with that scroll that I am giving to you.” So I ate it, and it was, in my mouth, like honey—sweet.

4 And he said to me, “Son of man, come; go to the house of Israel, and you shall speak with my words to them, 5 for not to a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue are you being sent, but to the house of Israel—6 not to many peoples, deep of lip or heavy of tongue, that you do not hear their words. If not to them I had sent you, they themselves would have heard you. 7 But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me, for all the house of Israel—they are strong of forehead and hard of heart. 8 Look! I have made your face strong as beside their faces and your forehead hard as beside their foreheads. 9 As a thorn harder than flint, I have made your forehead. You shall not fear them, and you shall not be dismayed because of their faces, for they are a house of rebellion.” 10 And he said to me, “Son of man, all the words that I am speaking to you—take them into your heart, and, in your ears, listen to them. 11 And come, go to the exiles, to the sons of your people, and you shall speak to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh,’ whether they will listen or whether they will refuse.”

12 Then a wind lifted me, and I heard behind me a sound of a great earthquake—“Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place!”—13 and the sound of the wings of the living beings, each brushing its sister, and the sound of the wheels beside them, and a sound of a great earthquake. 14 And a wind lifted me and took me, and I went bitterly in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me. 15 So I came to the exiles at Tel Aviv, the ones dwelling along the river of Kebar, and who were sitting there. And I sat there for seven days, appalled in their midst.

16 And it was, at the end of seven days, and it was, the word of Yahweh was to me, saying, 17 “Son of man, a watchman I have made you for the house of Israel. So you shall hear a word from my mouth, and you shall warn them from it. 18 When I say to the wicked person, ‘You will certainly die,’ and you do not warn him, and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he might live—he, wicked, will die in his iniquity, but his blood from your hand I will seek. 19 But you—when you warn a wicked person, and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he himself will die in his iniquity; but you—your life you will have rescued. 20 But when a righteous person turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and I put an obstacle before him, he himself will die. If you did not warn him, in his sin he will die, and his righteousness that he did will not be remember, but his blood from your hand I will seek. 21 But you—when you warn him, the righteous person—without sinning is the rightous person, and he himself does not sin, his life will be, because he was warned. But you—your life you will have rescued.”

22 So, on me there was the hand of Yahweh. And he said to me, “Rise! Go out to the valley, and there I will speak to you.” 23 I arose, and I went out to the valley, and look!—there, the glory of Yahweh was standing, like the glory that I saw along the river of Kebar. And I fell on my face. 24 Then a wind came into me, and it made me stand on my feet. And he spoke to me, and he said to me, “Go, shut yourself in the midst of your house. 25 But you, son of man—look! They will put on you ropes, and they will bind you with them, and you will not go out in their midst. 26 And your tongue, I will make cling to your palate, and you will be mute, and you will not be to them, to each, a reprover, for they themselves are a house of rebellion. 27 And when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you will say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh!’ The one hearing will hear; the one refusing will refuse, for they are a rebellious house!”

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