Ezekiel:3

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* And he said unto me , Son of man , eat what thou findest ; eat this roll , and go speak unto the house of Israel . * So I opened my mouth , and he caused me to eat that roll . * And he said unto me , Son of man , cause thy belly to eat , and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee . I ate it and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey . * Then he said unto me , Son of man , go and enter into the house of Israel , and speak with my words unto them . * For thou [art ] not sent to a people of a profound speech nor of a hard language , [but ] to the house of Israel ; * not to many peoples of profound speech nor of hard language , whose words thou can not understand . Surely , had I sent thee to them , they would have hearkened unto thee . * But the house of Israel will not desire to hear ; for they do not desire to hear me : for all the house of Israel [are ] impudent and hardhearted . * Behold , I have made thy face strong against their faces , and thy forehead strong against their foreheads . * As diamond harder than flint I have made thy forehead : do not fear them , neither be dismayed at their looks , though they [are ] a rebellious house . * Moreover he said unto me , Son of man , all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart , and hear with thine ears . * And go , and enter in among the captives , unto the sons of thy people , and thou shalt speak unto them , and tell them , Thus hath the Lord GOD said , They will not hear , nor forbear . * And the Spirit took me up , and I heard behind me a voice of great thunder of the blessed glory of the LORD [leaving ] his place , * and the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another , and the noise of the wheels over against them , and a noise of great thunder . * And the Spirit lifted me up and took me away , and I went in bitterness , in the heat of my spirit ; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me . * And I came unto the captives at Telabib , that dwelt by the river of Chebar , and I sat where they sat , and remained there disheartened among them seven days . * And it came to pass at the end of the seven days , that the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , * Son of man , I have placed thee as a watchman unto the house of Israel ; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from me . * When I say unto the wicked , Thou shalt surely die and thou dost not give him warning , nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way , that he might live , the same wicked [man ] shall die for his iniquity ; but his blood I will require at thine hand . * Yet if thou warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness nor from his wicked way , he shall die for his iniquity ; but thou hast delivered thy soul . * Again , When the righteous [man ] turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity and I lay a stumblingblock before him , he shall die because thou hast not given him warning ; he shall die in his sin , and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered ; but his blood I will require at thy hand . * Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous [man ] that the righteous not sin and he does not sin , he shall surely live because he is warned ; also thou hast delivered thy soul . * And the hand of the LORD came upon me there ; and he said unto me , Arise , go forth into the plain , and I will talk with thee there . * Then I arose and went forth into the plain , and , behold , the glory of the LORD stood there as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar ; and I fell on my face . * Then spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet , and [he ] spoke with me and said unto me , Go , shut thyself within thine house . * And thou , O son of man , behold , they shall put bands upon thee and shall bind thee with them , and thou shalt not go out among them ; * and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth that thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be to them a reprover ; for they [are ] a rebellious house . * But when I speak with thee , I will open thy mouth ; and thou shalt say unto them , Thus hath the Lord GOD said : He that hears , let him hear , and he that forbears ; let him forbear : for they [are ] a rebellious house .:

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