Verse 11
Ezekiel 3:11
New Living Translation
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Then go to your people in exile and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says!’ Do this whether they listen to you or not.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/לֵ֨ךְ בֹּ֤א אֶל הַ/גּוֹלָה֙ אֶל בְּנֵ֣י עַמֶּ֔/ךָ וְ/דִבַּרְתָּ֤ אֲלֵי/הֶם֙ וְ/אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵי/הֶ֔ם כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣/י יְהֹוִ֑ה אִֽם יִשְׁמְע֖וּ וְ/אִם יֶחְדָּֽלוּ
English Translation
And go to the exiles, to the sons of your people, and speak to them and say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Whether they will listen or whether they will refrain.
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Chapter 3 Context
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The voice said to me, “Son of man, eat what I am giving you — eat this scroll! Then go and give its...
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So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.
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“Fill your stomach with this,” he said. And when I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
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Then he said, “Son of man, go to the people of Israel and give them my messages.
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I am not sending you to a foreign people whose language you cannot understand.
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No, I am not sending you to people with strange and difficult speech. If I did, they would listen!
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But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are.
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I have made your forehead as hard as the hardest rock! So don’t be afraid of them or fear their angr...
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10
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11
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12
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Then the Spirit came into me and set me on my feet. He spoke to me and said, “Go to your house and s...
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