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And He saith unto me, `Son of man , that which thou findest eat , eat this roll , and go , speak unto the house of Israel .'
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And I open my mouth , and He causeth me to eat this roll .
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And He saith unto me, `Son of man , thy belly thou dost feed, and thy bowels thou dost fill with this roll that I am giving unto thee;' and I eat it, and it is in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
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And He saith unto me, `Son of man , go , enter in unto the house of Israel , and thou hast spoken with My words unto them.
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For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue [art] thou sent -- unto the house of Israel ;
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not unto many peoples, deep of lip and heavy of tongue , whose words thou dost not understand. If I had not sent thee unto them -- they, they do hearken unto thee,
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but the house of Israel are not willing to hearken unto thee, for they are not willing to hearken unto Me, for all the house of Israel are brazen-faced and strong-hearted.
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`Lo, I have made thy face strong against their face , and thy forehead strong against their forehead.
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As an adamant harder than a rock I have made thy forehead; thou dost not fear them, nor art thou affrighted before them, for a rebellious house [are] they.'
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And He saith unto me, `Son of man , all My words , that I speak unto thee, receive with thy heart, and with thine ears hear ;
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and go , enter in unto the Removed , unto the sons of thy people, and thou hast spoken unto them, and hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah : whether they hear , or whether they forbear.'
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And lift me up doth a spirit, and I hear behind me a noise , a great rushing -- `Blessed [is] the honour of Jehovah from His place !' --
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even a noise of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and a noise of the wheels over-against them, even a noise of a great rushing.
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And a spirit hath lifted me up, and doth take me away, and I go bitterly, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah on me [is] strong.
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And I come in unto the Removed , at Tel-Ahib, who are dwelling at the river Chebar, and where they are dwelling I also dwell seven days , causing astonishment in their midst .
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And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven days ,
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that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel , and thou hast heard from My mouth a word , and hast warned them from Me.
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In My saying to the wicked : Thou dost surely die ; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way , so that he doth live; he -- the wicked -- in his iniquity dieth , and his blood from thy hand I require.
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And thou, because thou hast warned the wicked , and he hath not turned back from his wickedness , and from his wicked way , he in his iniquity dieth , and thou thy soul hast delivered.
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`And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness , and he hath done perversity , and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth ; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth , and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require.
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And thou, because thou hast warned him -- the righteous -- that the righteous sin not, and he hath not sinned, he surely liveth, because he hath been warned; and thou thy soul hast delivered.'
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And there is on me there a hand of Jehovah , and He saith to me, `Rise , go forth to the valley, and there I do speak with thee.'
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And I rise and go forth unto the valley, and lo, there the honour of Jehovah is standing as the honour that I had seen by the river Chebar, and I fall on my face .
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And come into me doth a spirit, and causeth me to stand on my feet , and He speaketh with me, and saith unto me, `Go in, be shut up in the midst of thy house .
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`And thou, son of man , lo, they have put on thee thick bands, and have bound thee with them, and thou goest not forth in their midst ;
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and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house [are] they.
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And in My speaking with thee, I do open thy mouth , and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah ; the hearer doth hear , and the forbearer doth forbear; for a rebellious house [are] they.