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Ezekiel 2:1-3:27 — Ezekiel's Call

Ezek.2.1-3.27

¹He said to me, “Son of man , stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.” ²And the Spirit entered into me as he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him speaking to me. ³He said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to rebellious nations that have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day. ⁴The children are obstinate and hard-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.' ⁵And whether they listen or whether they refuse—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them. ⁶But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words, and do not be dismayed by their faces, for they are a rebellious house. ⁷You shall speak my words to them, whether they listen or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious. ⁸But you, son of man, listen to what I am speaking to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you." ⁹Then I looked, and behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, a scroll of a book was in it. ¹⁰He unrolled it before me, and it was written on the front and back; and written on it were lamentations, mourning, and woe.

Chapter 3

¹He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” ²So I opened my mouth, and he fed me this scroll. ³He said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly and fill your stomach with this scroll that I am giving you.” So I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. ⁴He said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them. ⁵For you are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel— ⁶not to many peoples of obscure speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. ⁷But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me; because the whole house of Israel has a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. ⁸Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. ⁹Like a diamond, harder than flint , I have made your forehead. Do not be afraid of them, and do not be dismayed by their faces, for they are a rebellious house." ¹⁰Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, take into your heart all my words that I speak to you, and hear them with your ears. ¹¹And go, come to the exiles, to the children of your people, and speak to them and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,' whether they listen or whether they refuse." ¹²Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great rumbling: “Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place!” ¹³It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, and the sound of a great rumbling. ¹⁴So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. ¹⁵Then I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the river Chebar, and to where they were dwelling; and I sat there overwhelmed among them for seven days. ¹⁶At the end of seven days, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ¹⁷"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall warn them from me. ¹⁸When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you do not warn him, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way in order to save his life, that wicked person will die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from your hand. ¹⁹But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness and from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you will have saved your soul. ²⁰And when a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I place a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but his blood I will require from your hand. ²¹But if you warn the righteous person that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you will have saved your soul." ²²And the hand of the LORD was upon me there, and he said to me, “Arise, go out to the valley, and there I will speak with you.” ²³So I arose and went out to the valley, and behold, the glory of the LORD was standing there, like the glory that I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. ²⁴Then the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said to me, "Go, shut yourself inside your house. ²⁵And you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them, so that you cannot go out among them. ²⁶And I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, so that you will be mute and will not be a reprover to them, for they are a rebellious house. ²⁷But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth , and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.' He who listens, let him listen; and he who refuses, let him refuse ; for they are a rebellious house."

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4/11/2026

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