King James VersionEzekiel3

Ezekiel

1 More­over he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou find­est; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Is­rael. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy bel­ly to eat, and fill thy bow­els with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as hon­ey for sweet­ness. 4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Is­rael, and speak with my words unto them. 5 For thou art not sent to a peo­ple of a strange speech and of an hard lan­guage, but to the house of Is­rael; 6 Not to many peo­ple of a strange speech and of an hard lan­guage, whose words thou canst not un­der­stand. Sure­ly, had I sent thee to them, they would have hear­kened unto thee. 7 But the house of Is­rael will not hear­ken unto thee; for they will not hear­ken unto me: for all the house of Is­rael are im­pu­dent and hard­heart­ed. 8 Be­hold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy fore­head strong against their fore­heads. 9 As an adamant hard­er than flint have I made thy fore­head: fear them not, nei­ther be dis­mayed at their looks, though they be a re­bel­lious house. 10 More­over he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee re­ceive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. 11 And go, get thee to them of the cap­tiv­i­ty, unto the chil­dren of thy peo­ple, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will for­bear. 12 Then the spir­it took me up, and I heard be­hind me a voice of a great rush­ing, saying, Blessed be the glo­ry of the LORD from his place. 13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the liv­ing crea­tures that touched one an­oth­er, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rush­ing. 14 So the spir­it lift­ed me up, and took me away, and I went in bit­ter­ness, in the heat of my spir­it; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. 15 Then I came to them of the cap­tiv­i­ty at Telabib, that dwelt by the riv­er of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and re­mained there as­ton­ished among them sev­en days. 16 And it came to pass at the end of sev­en days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, say­ing, 17 Son of man, I have made thee a watch­man unto the house of Is­rael: there­fore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warn­ing from me. 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt sure­ly die; and thou givest him not warn­ing, nor speak­est to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his in­iq­ui­ty; but his blood will I re­quire at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wicked­ness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his in­iq­ui­ty; but thou hast de­liv­ered thy soul. 20 Again, When a righ­teous man doth turn from his righ­teous­ness, and com­mit in­iq­ui­ty, and I lay a stum­bling­block be­fore him, he shall die: be­cause thou hast not giv­en him warn­ing, he shall die in his sin, and his righ­teous­ness which he hath done shall not be re­mem­bered; but his blood will I re­quire at thine hand. 21 Nev­er­the­less if thou warn the righ­teous man, that the righ­teous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall sure­ly live, be­cause he is warned; also thou hast de­liv­ered thy soul. 22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee. 23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, be­hold, the glo­ry of the LORD stood there, as the glo­ry which I saw by the riv­er of Chebar: and I fell on my face. 24 Then the spir­it en­tered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thy­self with­in thine house. 25 But thou, O son of man, be­hold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a re­prover: for they are a re­bel­lious house. 27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that for­beareth, let him for­bear: for they are a re­bel­lious house.