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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 2 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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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/2.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/2-1.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 2</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/1.htm" title="Ezekiel 1">◄</a> Ezekiel 2 <a href="../ezekiel/3.htm" title="Ezekiel 3">►</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/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Ezekiel’s Call to Be a Prophet</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>He said to me, “Son of man, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew phrase ben adam means human being. The phrase son of man is retained as a form of address here and throughout Ezekiel because of its possible association with ''Son of Man'' in the New Testament.">a</a></sup></span> stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>As he spoke, the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He said: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And whether they listen or fail to listen—for they are a rebellious people—they will know that a prophet has been among them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel like that rebellious people; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.</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">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew phrase <i>ben adam</i> means <i>human being</i>. 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