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Say to them, &#8216This is what the Sovereign LORD says,&#8217 whether they listen or fail to listen.&#8221 <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/3.htm">New Living Translation</a> Then go to your people in exile and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says!’ Do this whether they listen to you or not.” <a href="/esv/ezekiel/3.htm">English Standard Version</a> And go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ whether they hear or refuse to hear.” <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/3.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> 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 href="/kjv/ezekiel/3.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/3.htm">New King James Version</a> And go, get to the captives, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ whether they hear, or whether they refuse.” <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/3.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Go to the exiles, to the sons of your people, and speak to them and tell them, whether they listen or not, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’” <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/3.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Go to the exiles, to the sons of your people, and speak to them and tell them, whether they listen or not, &#8216Thus says the Lord GOD.&#8217&#8221 <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/3.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “And go to the exiles, to the sons of your people, and speak to them and tell them, whether they listen or not, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’” <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/3.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> And go now, come to the exiles, to the sons of your people, and you shall speak to them and say to them, whether they listen or whether they refuse, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh.’” <a href="/amp/ezekiel/3.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Go to the [Jewish] exiles [in Babylon], to the children of your people, and speak to them, whether they listen or not, and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’” <a href="/csb/ezekiel/3.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Go to your people, the exiles, and speak to them. Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.” <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/3.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Go to your people, the exiles, and speak to them. Tell them, &#8216This is what the Lord GOD says,&#8217 whether they listen or refuse to listen.&#8221 <a href="/asv/ezekiel/3.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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 Jehovah; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. <a href="/cev/ezekiel/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Then go to the people who were brought here to Babylonia with you and tell them you have a message from me, the LORD God. Do this, whether they listen to you or not. <a href="/erv/ezekiel/3.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/3.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Go to the exiles, to your people. Whether they listen or not, tell them, 'This is what the Almighty LORD says.'" <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/3.htm">Good News Translation</a> Then go to the people of your nation who are in exile and tell them what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to them, whether they pay attention to you or not." <a href="/isv/ezekiel/3.htm">International Standard Version</a> then go immediately to the exiles; that is, to your people's descendants, and tell them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says…' whether they listen or not." <a href="/msb/ezekiel/3.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> 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 href="/net/ezekiel/3.htm">NET Bible</a> Go to the exiles, to your fellow countrymen, and speak to them--say to them, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says,' whether they pay attention or not." <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/3.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> And go to the exiles, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD'; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And depart, go to them of the captivity, to the children of thy people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. <a href="/web/ezekiel/3.htm">World English Bible</a> Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.” <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/3.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> and go forth, go to the expulsion, to the sons of your people, and you have spoken to them, and have said to them: Thus said Lord YHWH; whether they hear, or whether they refrain.” <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 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.' <a href="/slt/ezekiel/3.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And go, come to the captivity, to the sons of my people, and speak to them, and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah; if they will hear, and if they will desist.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And go get thee in to them of the captivity, to the children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them, and shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If so be they will hear and will forbear. <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/3.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And go forth and enter to those of the transmigration, to the sons of your people. And you shall speak to them. And you shall say to them: ‘Thus says the Lord God.’ Perhaps it may be that they will listen and be quieted.” <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/3.htm">New American Bible</a> Now go to the exiles, to your own people, and speak to them. Say to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear: Thus says the LORD God! <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> then go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them. Say to them, “Thus says the Lord GOD”; whether they hear or refuse to hear.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/3.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And go and get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, Thus says the LORD God; perhaps they will listen, and tremble. <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/3.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And go enter the captivity to the children of your people and speak with them and say to them: ‘Thus says THE LORD OF LORDS.’ Perhaps they shall hear and they shall be moved<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/3.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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.' <a href="/sep/ezekiel/3.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And go thy way, go in to the captivity, to the children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=490" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/3.htm">Ezekiel Eats the Scroll</a> …10“Son of man,” He added, “listen carefully to all the words I speak to you, and take them to heart. 11<a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: wə·lêḵ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk."></a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: bō (V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">Go</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: bə·nê (N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">your people,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: ‘am·me·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1473.htm" title="1473: hag·gō·w·lāh (Art:: N-fs) -- Exiles, exile. Or golah; active participle feminine of galah; exile; concretely and collectively exiles.">the exiles;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1696.htm" title="1696: wə·ḏib·bar·tā (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConjPerf-2ms) -- To speak. A primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively, to speak; rarely to subdue.">speak</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’ă·lê·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to them</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: wə·’ā·mar·tā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">and tell</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’ă·lê·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- To, into, towards. ">them,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3541.htm" title="3541: kōh (Adv) -- Thus, here. From the prefix k and huw'; properly, like this, i.e. By implication, thus; also here; or now.">‘This is what</a> <a href="/hebrew/136.htm" title="136: ’ă·ḏō·nāy (N-proper-ms) -- Lord. Am emphatic form of 'adown; the Lord.">the Lord</a> <a href="/hebrew/3069.htm" title="3069: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- YHWH. A variation of Yhovah.">GOD</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ’ā·mar (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">says,’</a> <a href="/hebrew/518.htm" title="518: ’im- (Conj) -- If. A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!">whether</a> <a href="/hebrew/8085.htm" title="8085: yiš·mə·‘ū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To hear. A primitive root; to hear intelligently.">they listen</a> <a href="/hebrew/518.htm" title="518: wə·’im- (Conj) -- If. A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!">or</a> <a href="/hebrew/2308.htm" title="2308: yeḥ·dā·lū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To cease. A primitive root; properly, to be flabby, i.e. desist; be lacking or idle.">refuse to listen.”</a> 12Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: ‘Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!’…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/jeremiah/1-7.htm">Jeremiah 1:7</a> But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak. <a href="/jeremiah/7-27.htm">Jeremiah 7:27</a> When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer. <a href="/acts/20-20.htm">Acts 20:20-21</a> I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house, / testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. <a href="/acts/18-6.htm">Acts 18:6</a> But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” <a href="/matthew/10-6.htm">Matthew 10:6-7</a> Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. / As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near.’ <a href="/matthew/15-24.htm">Matthew 15:24</a> He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” <a href="/john/1-11.htm">John 1:11</a> He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. <a href="/acts/13-46.htm">Acts 13:46</a> Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. <a href="/isaiah/6-9.htm">Isaiah 6:9-10</a> And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” <a href="/isaiah/55-11.htm">Isaiah 55:11</a> so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it. <a href="/luke/9-5.htm">Luke 9:5</a> If anyone does not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that town, as a testimony against them.” <a href="/luke/10-10.htm">Luke 10:10-11</a> But if you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go into the streets and declare, / ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off as a testimony against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.’ <a href="/john/12-48.htm">John 12:48</a> There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. <a href="/2_timothy/4-2.htm">2 Timothy 4:2</a> Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. <a href="/jeremiah/26-2.htm">Jeremiah 26:2</a> “This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to worship there. Do not omit a word.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus said the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.get<a href="/ezekiel/3-15.htm">Ezekiel 3:15</a> 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.<a href="/ezekiel/11-24.htm">Ezekiel 11:24,25</a> Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me… <a href="/daniel/6-13.htm">Daniel 6:13</a> Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.the children<a href="/ezekiel/33-2.htm">Ezekiel 33:2,12,17,30</a> Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: … <a href="/ezekiel/37-18.htm">Ezekiel 37:18</a> And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?<a href="/exodus/32-7.htm">Exodus 32:7</a> And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:speak<a href="/ezekiel/3-27.htm">Ezekiel 3:27</a> 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.<a href="/ezekiel/2-5.htm">Ezekiel 2:5,7</a> And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them… <a href="/acts/20-26.htm">Acts 20:26,27</a> Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/1-2.htm">Captivity</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-7.htm">Children</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-2.htm">Countrymen</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-4.htm">Depart</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-4.htm">Enter</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-2.htm">Exile</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-1.htm">Exiles</a> <a href="/ezekiel/2-7.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/ezekiel/2-7.htm">Forbear</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-10.htm">Hear</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-1.htm">Prisoners</a> <a href="/ezekiel/2-7.htm">Refuse</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-1.htm">Removed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/2-4.htm">Sovereign</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-10.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/ezekiel/2-7.htm">Whether</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/3-15.htm">Captivity</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-17.htm">Children</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-2.htm">Countrymen</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-42.htm">Depart</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-22.htm">Enter</a> <a href="/ezekiel/12-3.htm">Exile</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-15.htm">Exiles</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-17.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-27.htm">Forbear</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-12.htm">Hear</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-25.htm">Prisoners</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-27.htm">Refuse</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-15.htm">Removed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-27.htm">Sovereign</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-17.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-31.htm">Whether</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 3</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/3-1.htm">Ezekiel eats the scroll</a> 4. <a href="/ezekiel/3-4.htm">God encourages him</a> 15. <a href="/ezekiel/3-15.htm">God shows him the rule of prophecy</a> 22. <a href="/ezekiel/3-22.htm">God shuts and opens the prophet's mouth</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/3.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/3.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>Go to your people, the exiles; Ezekiel is commanded to go to the Israelites who have been exiled to Babylon. This reflects the historical context of the Babylonian captivity, which began in 597 BC when King Nebuchadnezzar deported the Jewish elite. The exiles are Ezekiel's own people, emphasizing his role as a prophet to his fellow Israelites. This phrase highlights the importance of ministering to one's own community, even in foreign lands.speak to them and tell them, Ezekiel is instructed to communicate God's message directly to the people. This underscores the role of a prophet as a mouthpiece for God, tasked with delivering divine messages. The act of speaking is central to prophetic ministry, as seen throughout the Old Testament, where prophets are often called to verbally convey God's will.‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ The phrase establishes the authority of the message. It is not Ezekiel's own words but those of the sovereign LORD. This formula is common in prophetic literature, asserting that the message originates from God Himself. It is a reminder of the divine authority behind the prophet's words, similar to the declarations made by other prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah.whether they listen or refuse to listen.” This highlights the anticipated resistance or indifference of the audience. The prophet's duty is to deliver the message regardless of the people's response, reflecting the theme of human free will and responsibility. This echoes the experiences of other prophets, such as Jeremiah, who faced opposition and rejection. It also foreshadows the New Testament, where Jesus and His apostles often encountered both acceptance and rejection of their message.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet and priest called by God to deliver His messages to the Israelites during their Babylonian exile. His role was to be a watchman for the house of Israel. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_exiles.htm">The Exiles</a> The Israelites who were taken captive and living in Babylon. They were the primary audience of Ezekiel's prophetic messages. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord_god.htm">The Lord GOD</a> The sovereign and covenant-keeping God of Israel, who speaks through His prophets to guide, warn, and instruct His people. 4. <a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a> The place of exile for the Israelites, representing both physical captivity and spiritual testing. 5. <a href="/topical/p/prophetic_commission.htm">Prophetic Commission</a> The event where God commissions Ezekiel to speak His words to the people, emphasizing the importance of obedience to God's call regardless of the people's response.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/o/obedience_to_god's_call.htm">Obedience to God's Call</a> Ezekiel's commission underscores the importance of obedience to God's call, regardless of the anticipated response. Believers are encouraged to faithfully deliver God's message in their own contexts. <a href="/topical/f/faithfulness_over_results.htm">Faithfulness Over Results</a> The focus is on being faithful to God's command rather than being concerned with the outcome. Success in God's eyes is measured by obedience, not by human standards of success. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_a_watchman.htm">The Role of a Watchman</a> Like Ezekiel, Christians are called to be watchmen, sharing God's truth with others. This involves both warning and encouraging, always pointing back to God's word. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_and_human_responsibility.htm">God's Sovereignty and Human Responsibility</a> While God is sovereign and His plans will prevail, humans have the responsibility to respond to His message. This duality should encourage believers to share the gospel with urgency and compassion. <a href="/topical/p/perseverance_in_ministry.htm">Perseverance in Ministry</a> Ezekiel's example teaches perseverance in ministry, even when faced with indifference or hostility. Believers are called to trust in God's purposes and timing.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_3.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 3</a> <a href="/q/ezekiel_34__judgment_inconsistencies.htm">Ezekiel 34 - Are there any inconsistencies with other prophetic books about how judgment is executed and who is held accountable?</a> <a href="/q/how_is_ezekiel_37_25-28_fulfilled_today.htm">How can Ezekiel 37:25-28's everlasting covenant and sanctuary be understood when there seems to be no clear historical or present-day fulfillment matching this depiction?</a> <a href="/q/why_were_people_complacent_in_ezekiel_12_27.htm">Why did the people remain complacent in Ezekiel 12:27-28, suggesting the prophecy had little impact if it was truly from God?</a> <a href="/q/why_no_external_records_of_ezekiel_34.htm">Ezekiel 34 - Why didn't contemporary historical records outside the Bible mention this supposed divine intervention in Israel's leadership crisis?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/3.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(11) Get thee to them of the captivity.--Ezekiel's mission is now made more definite. In <a href="/ezekiel/3-10.htm" title="Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.">Ezekiel 3:10</a> he has been told in plain terms what had already been symbolically conveyed under the figure of the roll, and now he is further informed that his immediate mission to the house of Israel is limited to that part of it which, like himself, was already in captivity. At this time, and for several years to come, this was a comparatively small part of the whole nation; but before Ezekiel's ministrations were finished it embraced the mass of them. (See Introd., III.) It is noticeable that God directs him to go, not to My, but to thy people; just as in <a href="/ezekiel/2-3.htm" title="And he said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even to this very day.">Ezekiel 2:3</a> He speaks of them as heathen, so here He refuses to recognise them in their present state as really His people. (Comp. <a href="/exodus/32-7.htm" title="And the LORD said to Moses, Go, get you down; for your people, which you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:">Exodus 32:7</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/33-2.htm" title="Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them, When I bring the sword on a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:">Ezekiel 33:2</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/33-12.htm" title="Therefore, you son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.">Ezekiel 33:12</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/33-17.htm" title="Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.">Ezekiel 33:17</a>; <a href="/daniel/9-24.htm" title="Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.">Daniel 9:24</a>; <a href="/daniel/10-14.htm" title="Now I am come to make you understand what shall befall your people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.">Daniel 10:14</a>.) At the same time, there is thus indirectly suggested to the prophet a reminder that he is himself one of the same people, and needs therefore to be on his guard against the sin and obduracy which characterise them. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 11. - Get thee to them of the Captivity, etc. In <a href="/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3</a> and Ezekiel 3:1, 4 the mission had been to "the house of Israel" generally; now it is specialized. He is sent "to them of the Captivity." They are the rebellious house. There is an obvious significance in the phrase, "thy people." Jehovah can no longer recognize them as his. The words of <a href="/ezekiel/2-7.htm">Ezekiel 2:7</a> are repeated. Here also, even among the exiles, who were better than those that remained in Judah, he was to expect partial failure, but he was not, on that account, to shirk the completion of his task. Thus saith the Lord God; Adonai Jehovah, as in <a href="/ezekiel/2-4.htm">Ezekiel 2:4</a>. <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Go בֹּ֤א (bō) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to your people, בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê) Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son the exiles; הַגּוֹלָה֙ (hag·gō·w·lāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1473.htm">Strong's 1473: </a> Exile, exiles speak וְדִבַּרְתָּ֤ (wə·ḏib·bar·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1696.htm">Strong's 1696: </a> To arrange, to speak, to subdue to them אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to and tell וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ (wə·’ā·mar·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say them, אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם (’ă·lê·hem) Preposition | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to ‘This is what כֹּ֥ה (kōh) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3541.htm">Strong's 3541: </a> Like this, thus, here, now the Lord אֲדֹנָ֣י (’ă·ḏō·nāy) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_136.htm">Strong's 136: </a> The Lord GOD יְהֹוִ֑ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3069.htm">Strong's 3069: </a> YHWH says,’ אָמַ֖ר (’ā·mar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say whether אִֽם־ (’im-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_518.htm">Strong's 518: </a> Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not they listen יִשְׁמְע֖וּ (yiš·mə·‘ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8085.htm">Strong's 8085: </a> To hear intelligently or וְאִם־ (wə·’im-) Conjunctive waw | Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_518.htm">Strong's 518: </a> Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not refuse to listen.” יֶחְדָּֽלוּ׃ (yeḥ·dā·lū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2308.htm">Strong's 2308: </a> To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Ezekiel 3:11 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Ezekiel 3:11 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Ezekiel 3:11 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Ezekiel 3:11 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Ezekiel 3:11 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Ezekiel 3:11 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Ezekiel 3:11 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Ezekiel 3:11 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Ezekiel 3:11 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/3-11.htm">Ezekiel 3:11 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-11.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 3:11 Go get you to them (Ezek. 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