Ezekiel Chapter 3

• Ezekiel 3:1
  Ezekiel.
• Ezekiel 3:2
  He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”
• Ezekiel 3:3
  So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
• Ezekiel 3:4
  He 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 m...
• Ezekiel 3:5
  He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.
• Ezekiel 3:6
  For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel—
• Ezekiel 3:7
  not 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 ...
• Ezekiel 3:8
  But 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.
• Ezekiel 3:9
  Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
• Ezekiel 3:10
  I 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 h...
• Ezekiel 3:11
  Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.
• Ezekiel 3:12
  Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they will hea...
• Ezekiel 3:13
  Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, “Blessed be the LORD’s glory from his place.”
• Ezekiel 3:14
  I 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...
• Ezekiel 3:15
  So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the LORD’s hand was strong on me.
• Ezekiel 3:16
  Then 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 ...
• Ezekiel 3:17
  At the end of seven days, the LORD’s word came to me, saying,
• Ezekiel 3:18
  “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.
• Ezekiel 3:19
  When 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 w...
• Ezekiel 3:20
  Yet 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...
• Ezekiel 3:21
  “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 ...
• Ezekiel 3:22
  Nevertheless 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 hav...
• Ezekiel 3:23
  The LORD’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”
• Ezekiel 3:24
  Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, the LORD’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my...
• Ezekiel 3:25
  Then 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.
• Ezekiel 3:26
  But 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.
• Ezekiel 3:27
  I 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...
• Ezekiel 3:28
  But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who r...