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Then I ate it; and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>He said to me: Mortal, go to the house of Israel and speak my very words to them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>For you are not sent to a people of obscure speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel— </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>not to many peoples of obscure speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me; because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Like the hardest stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not fear them or be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>He said to me: Mortal, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart and hear with your ears; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>then go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them. Say to them, “Thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>”; whether they hear or refuse to hear.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Ezekiel at the River Chebar</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Then the spirit lifted me up, and as the glory of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> rose<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-24614a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> from its place, I heard behind me the sound of loud rumbling; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>it was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, that sounded like a loud rumbling. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>The spirit lifted me up and bore me away; I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> being strong upon me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who lived by the river Chebar.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-24617b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> And I sat there among them, stunned, for seven days.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>At the end of seven days, the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> came to me: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Mortal, I have made you a sentinel for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>If I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and you give them no warning, or speak to warn the wicked from their wicked way, in order to save their life, those wicked persons shall die for their iniquity; but their blood I will require at your hand. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>But if you warn the wicked, and they do not turn from their wickedness, or from their wicked way, they shall die for their iniquity; but you will have saved your life. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Again, if the righteous turn from their righteousness and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before them, they shall die; because you have not warned them, they shall die for their sin, and their righteous deeds that they have done shall not be remembered; but their blood I will require at your hand. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>If, however, you warn the righteous not to sin, and they do not sin, they shall surely live, because they took warning; and you will have saved your life.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Ezekiel Isolated and Silenced</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Then the hand of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> was upon me there; and he said to me, Rise up, go out into the valley, and there I will speak with you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>So I rose up and went out into the valley; and the glory of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> stood there, like the glory that I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>The spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me and said to me: Go, shut yourself inside your house. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>As for you, mortal, cords shall be placed on you, and you shall be bound with them, so that you cannot go out among the people; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>and I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be speechless and unable to reprove them; for they are a rebellious house. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, “Thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>”; let those who will hear, hear; and let those who refuse to hear, refuse; for they are a rebellious house.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 3:12">Ezekiel 3:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>and blessed be the glory of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span></i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 3:15">Ezekiel 3:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Two Mss Syr: Heb <i>Chebar, and to where they lived.</i> Another reading is <i>Chebar, and I sat where they sat</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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