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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 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../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="../topmenuchap/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="../">NIV</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 class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/ezekiel/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the people of Israel.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He then said to me: “Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language, but to the people of Israel— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>not to many peoples of obscure speech and strange language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But the people of Israel are not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And he said to me, “Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart all the words I speak to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Go now to your people in exile and speak to them. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says,’ whether they listen or fail to listen.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a loud rumbling sound as the glory of the <span class="name">Lord</span> rose from the place where it was standing. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text sound--may the glory of the LORD be praised from his place">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against each other and the sound of the wheels beside them, a loud rumbling sound. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The Spirit then 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 <span class="name">Lord</span> on me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Aviv near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days—deeply distressed.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Ezekiel’s Task as Watchman</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>At the end of seven days the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or in; also in verses 19 and 20">b</a></sup></span> their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But if you do warn the righteous person not to sin and they do not sin, they will surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved yourself.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The hand of the <span class="name">Lord</span> was on me there, and he said to me, “Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So I got up and went out to the plain. And the glory of the <span class="name">Lord</span> was standing there, like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet. He spoke to me and said: “Go, shut yourself inside your house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes; you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says.’ Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse; for they are a rebellious people.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text <i>sound—may the glory of the <span class="name">Lord</span> be praised from his place</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>in</i>; also in verses 19 and 20</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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