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I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, “Thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house), they shall know that there has been a prophet among them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>And you, O mortal, do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words, and do not be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>You shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear; for they are a rebellious house.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>But you, mortal, hear what I say to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>I looked, and a hand was stretched out to me, and a written scroll was in it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>He spread it before me; it had writing on the front and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 2:1">Ezekiel 2:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>son of man</i>; Heb <i>ben adam</i> (and so throughout the book when Ezekiel is addressed)</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 2:3">Ezekiel 2:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr: Heb <i>to nations</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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