Ezekiel 3

¹ And He saithsaith unto me, `Son of manSon of man, that which thou findest eateat, eateat this rollroll, and gogo, speakspeak unto the househouse of IsraelIsrael.'

² And I openopen my mouthmouth, and He causeth me to eateat this rollroll.

³ And He saithsaith unto me, `Son of manSon of man, thy bellybelly thou dost feed, and thy bowels thou dost fillfill with this rollroll that I am givinggiving unto thee;' and I eateat it, and it is in my mouthmouth as honeyhoney for sweetness.

⁴ And He saithsaith unto me, `Son of manSon of man, gogo, enterenter in unto the househouse of IsraelIsrael, and thou hast spokenspoken with My wordswords unto them.

⁵ For, not unto a people deep of liplip and heavy of tonguetongue [art] thou sentsent -- unto the househouse of IsraelIsrael;

⁶ not unto manymany peoples, deep of liplip and heavy of tonguetongue, whose wordswords thou dost not understand. If I had not sentsent thee unto them -- they, they do hearkenhearken unto thee,

⁷ but the househouse of IsraelIsrael are not willing to hearkenhearken unto thee, for they are not willing to hearkenhearken unto Me, for all the househouse of IsraelIsrael are brazen-faced and strong-hearted.

⁸ `Lo, I have made thy faceface strong against their faceface, and thy forehead strong against their forehead.

⁹ As an adamant harder than a rock I have made thy forehead; thou dost not fearfear them, nor art thou affrighted beforebefore them, for a rebellious househouse [are] they.'

¹⁰ And He saithsaith unto me, `Son of manSon of man, all My wordswords, that I speakspeak unto thee, receive with thy heart, and with thine ears hearhear;

¹¹ and gogo, enterenter in unto the RemovedRemoved, unto the sons of thy people, and thou hast spokenspoken unto them, and hast saidsaid unto them: Thus saidsaid the LordLord JehovahJehovah: whether they hearhear, or whether they forbear.'

¹² And liftlift me up doth a spirit, and I hearhear behindbehind me a noisenoise, a greatgreat rushing -- `BlessedBlessed [is] the honour of JehovahJehovah from His placeplace!' --

¹³ even a noisenoise of the wingswings of the living creaturesliving creatures touchingtouching one another, and a noisenoise of the wheelswheels over-against them, even a noisenoise of a greatgreat rushing.

¹⁴ And a spirit hath liftedlifted me up, and doth take me away, and I go bitterly, in the heat of my spirit, and the handhand of JehovahJehovah on me [is] strong.

¹⁵ And I comecome in unto the RemovedRemoved, at Tel-Ahib, who are dwellingdwelling at the riverriver Chebar, and where they are dwellingdwelling I also dwelldwell sevenseven daysdays, causing astonishment in their midstmidst.

¹⁶ And it cometh to pass, at the end of sevenseven daysdays,

¹⁷ that there is a wordword of JehovahJehovah unto me, saying, `SonSon of man, a watchmanwatchman I have givengiven thee to the househouse of IsraelIsrael, and thou hast heardheard from My mouthmouth a wordword, and hast warned them from Me.

¹⁸ In My saying to the wickedwicked: Thou dost surely diedie; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spokenspoken to warn the wickedwicked from his wickedwicked wayway, so that he doth live; he -- the wickedwicked -- in his iniquityiniquity diethdieth, and his bloodblood from thy handhand I require.

¹⁹ And thou, because thou hast warned the wickedwicked, and he hath not turnedturned backback from his wickednesswickedness, and from his wickedwicked wayway, he in his iniquityiniquity diethdieth, and thou thy soulsoul hast delivered.

²⁰ `And in the turningturning backback of the righteousrighteous from his righteousnessrighteousness, and he hath done perversityperversity, and I have putput a stumbling-block beforebefore him, he diethdieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sinsin he diethdieth, and not rememberedremembered is his righteousnessrighteousness that he hath done, and his bloodblood from thy handhand I require.

²¹ And thou, because thou hast warned him -- the righteousrighteous -- that the righteousrighteous sin not, and he hath not sinned, he surely liveth, because he hath been warned; and thou thy soulsoul hast delivered.'

²² And there is on me there a handhand of JehovahJehovah, and He saithsaith to me, `RiseRise, go forthgo forth to the valley, and there I do speak with thee.'

²³ And I riserise and go forthgo forth unto the valley, and lo, there the honour of JehovahJehovah is standingstanding as the honour that I had seenseen by the riverriver Chebar, and I fallfall on my faceface.

²⁴ And comecome into me doth a spirit, and causeth me to standstand on my feetfeet, and He speakethspeaketh with me, and saithsaith unto me, `GoGo in, be shut upshut up in the midstmidst of thy househouse.

²⁵ `And thou, son of manson of man, lo, they have putput on thee thick bands, and have boundbound thee with them, and thou goestgoest not forth in their midstmidst;

²⁶ and thy tonguetongue I cause to cleavecleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious househouse [are] they.

²⁷ And in My speakingspeaking with thee, I do openopen thy mouthmouth, and thou hast saidsaid unto them: Thus saidsaid the LordLord JehovahJehovah; the hearer doth hearhear, and the forbearer doth forbear; for a rebellious househouse [are] they.