Context 5For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel, 6nor to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. But I have sent you to them who should listen to you; 7yet the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, since they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate. 8Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 9Like emery harder than flint I have made your forehead. Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, though they are a rebellious house. 10Moreover, He said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all My words which I will speak to you and listen closely. 11Go 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. 12Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me, Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His place. 13And I heard the sound of the wings of the living beings touching one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, even a great rumbling sound. 14So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the rage of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong on me. 15Then I came to the exiles who lived beside the river Chebar at Tel-abib, and I sat there seven days where they were living, causing consternation among them. 16At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 17Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me. 18When I say to the wicked, You will surely die, and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 19Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself. 20Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. 21However, if you have warned the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself. 22The hand of the LORD was on me there, and He said to me, Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you. 23So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the glory of the LORD was standing there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face. 24The Spirit then entered me and made me stand on my feet, and He spoke with me and said to me, Go, shut yourself up in your house. 25As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them so that you cannot go out among them. 26Moreover, I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and cannot be a man who rebukes them, for they are a rebellious house. 27But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD. He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionFor thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; Douay-Rheims Bible For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel: Darby Bible Translation For thou art not sent to a people of strange language, and of difficult speech, but to the house of Israel; English Revised Version For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; Webster's Bible Translation For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; World English Bible For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; Young's Literal Translation For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue art thou sent -- unto the house of Israel; Library Cæsarius of Arles. He was born in the district of Chalons-sur-Saone, A. D. 470. He seems to have been early awakened, by a pious education, to vital Christianity. When he was between seven and eight years old, it would often happen that he would give a portion of his clothes to the poor whom he met, and would say, when he came home, that he had been, constrained to do so. When yet a youth, he entered the celebrated convent on the island of Lerins, (Lerina,) in Provence, from which a spirit of deep and practical piety … Augustus Neander—Light in the Dark Places Boniface, Apostle of the Germans. Epistle xxxiv. To Venantius, Ex-Monk, Patrician of Syracuse . The Greatness of the Soul, The Servant's Inflexible Resolve The Iranian Conquest The Prophet Jonah. A Work of Reform Ezekiel Links Ezekiel 3:5 NIV • Ezekiel 3:5 NLT • Ezekiel 3:5 ESV • Ezekiel 3:5 NASB • Ezekiel 3:5 KJV • Ezekiel 3:5 Bible Apps • Ezekiel 3:5 Parallel • Bible Hub |