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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 3</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//ezekiel/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/ezekiel/">Ezekiel</a> > Ezekiel 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/2.htm" title="Ezekiel 2">◄</a> Ezekiel 3 <a href="../ezekiel/4.htm" title="Ezekiel 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/3.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/3.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/ezekiel/3.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/3.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/3.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/3.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/3.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Ezekiel Eats the Scroll<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../revelation/10.htm">Revelation 10:1–11</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.” <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” <p class="reg"> So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then He said to me, “Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel— <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Son of man,” He added, “listen carefully to all the words I speak to you, and take them to heart. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Go to your people, the exiles; speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the Spirit<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: ‘Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!’<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, a great rumbling sound. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed. <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">A Watchman for Israel<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me. <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> and I will hold you responsible for his blood. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.” <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And there the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak with you.” <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So I got up and went out to the plain, and behold, the glory of the LORD was present there, like the glory I had seen by the River Kebar, and I fell facedown. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said, “Go, shut yourself inside your house. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes, and you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you are to tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ Whoever listens, let him listen; and whoever refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>the wind</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 14<br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>sound behind me as the glory of the LORD rose from its place!</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>for his iniquity</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 19<br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>for his sin</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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