Ezekiel 3 And he said to me, Son of man eat this roll and go and speak to the children of Israel.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And he said to me, Son of man eat this roll and go and speak to the children of Israel. ² And when he had opened my mouth and put the roll into it, he said to me, Son of man, ³ Let thy mouth eat and thy belly be filled with this roll which is given thee. So I ate it, and it was in my mouth sweet as honey. ⁴ Then he said to me, Son of man, go and get thee to the house of Israel and speak to them these words of mine, ⁵ seeing thou art sent to the house of Israel; not to a people of strange language, ⁶ nor to many tribes of strange and foreign tongues, nor to them whose pronunciation is harsh and whose words thou canst not understand; though had I sent thee to such they might have hearkened to thee. ⁷ But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee, since they are not willing to hearken to me. Because all the house of Israel are contentious and stubborn, ⁸ therefore behold I have made thy face strong against their faces, and I will invigorate thy struggle against their struggling ⁹ and it shall be on all occasions firmer than a rock. Be not afraid of them nor daunted at their countenance, because they are a provoking house. ¹⁰ Then he said to me, Son of man, lay up in thy heart all the words which I have spoken to thee; and ¹¹ having heard with thine ears go get thee to the captivity, to the children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them and say to them, "Thus saith the Lord," whether they hear or forbear. ¹² Then a blast of wind took me up and I heard behind me a sound of a great earthquake, "Blessed be the glory of the Lord from this place of his:" ¹³ whereupon I looked towards the sound and saw that this sound of an earthquake was that of the wings flapping one against another and that of the wheels near them. ¹⁴ Then the blast lifted me up and bore me aloft and I went by the impulse of my own spirit, and the hand of the Lord upon me was strong, ¹⁵ and being borne aloft I came to the captivity and went round among them who dwelt by the river Chobar; among them who were there. And I abode there seven days conversing with them. ¹⁶ And after these seven days a word of the Lord came to me saying, "Son of man; ¹⁷ I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear a word from my mouth and warn them from me. ¹⁸ When I say to the unrighteous, Thou shalt surely die, and thou hast not warned the unrighteous to turn from his ways that he may live; that unrighteous man shall die for his iniquity; but his blood I will require at thy hand. ¹⁹ But if thou hast warned the unrighteous and he will not turn from his iniquity and from his way; that unrighteous man shall die for his iniquity, and thou shalt deliver thy soul. ²⁰ So when a righteous man turneth from his righteous acts and shall commit transgression though I lay the punishment before him; he shall die. Because thou hast not warned him, though he indeed shall die for his sins [for his righteous acts will not be remembered; yet his blood I will require at thy hand. ²¹ But if thou hast warned the righteous man not to sin and he sinneth not; the righteous man shall live; and because thou hast warned him, thou shalt deliver thy soul. ²² Then the hand of the Lord was upon me; and he said to me, Arise and go out to the plain and I will there speak to thee. ²³ So I arose and went out to the plain; and behold the glory of the Lord stood there like the vision and like the glory of the Lord which I saw by the river Chobar. Whereupon I fell on my face. ²⁴ And a blast of wind came upon me and set me on my feet, and he spoke to me and said to me, Go and shut thyself up in thy house. ²⁵ Now son of man, behold chains are prepared for thee; and thou shalt be bound with them and shalt not get out of them. ²⁶ And I will bind up thy tongue, that thou mayst be dumb and not be to them a reprover, because they are a rebellious house. ²⁷ And when I speak to thee, I will open thy mouth and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, whoso heareth let him hear; and let him who is disobedient, be disobedient, since they are a rebellious house.