Ezekiel 3 (NET)

Ezekiel 3:1¹He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you see in front of you —eat this scroll—and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 10:9-10Ezek 3:17-21Ezek 2:8-91 Tim 4:15Ezek 3:15Jer 24:1-7Ezek 2:3Ezek 3:10-11

Ezekiel 3:2²So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 25:17Acts 26:19

Ezekiel 3:3³He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 15:16Rev 10:9-10Ps 119:103Ps 19:10Col 3:16Prov 2:10-11Ps 119:11Ps 119:97Ezek 2:10Jer 20:9

Ezekiel 3:4⁴He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 1:8Ezek 2:3Ezek 2:7Ezek 3:11Matt 10:5-6Matt 15:24

Ezekiel 3:5⁵For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jonah 1:2Isa 33:19Acts 26:17-18Ezek 3:6Isa 28:11Jonah 3:2-4Ps 81:5

Ezekiel 3:6⁶not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jonah 3:5-10Luke 11:30-32Matt 11:20-24Matt 12:41-42Rom 9:30-33Acts 27:28

Ezekiel 3:7⁷But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, because they are not willing to listen to me, for the whole house of Israel is hardheaded and hardhearted.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 10:161 Sam 8:7Ezek 2:4John 15:20-24Ezek 24:7Isa 3:9Jer 25:3-4Jer 3:3Jer 44:16Jer 44:4-5

Ezekiel 3:8⁸“I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 1:18Acts 7:51-561 Kgs 21:20Exod 11:4-8Exod 4:15-16Heb 11:27Heb 11:32-37Isa 50:7Mic 3:8Jer 15:20

Ezekiel 3:9⁹I have made your forehead harder than flint—like diamond! Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 2:6Jer 1:8Isa 41:10Isa 50:7Zech 7:121 Tim 2:3Isa 41:14Jer 17:18Mic 3:8Jer 1:17

Ezekiel 3:10¹⁰And he said to me, “Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 22:22Ps 119:11Luke 8:15Ezek 2:8Ezek 3:1-31 Thess 2:131 Thess 4:1Prov 19:20Prov 8:10

Ezekiel 3:11¹¹Go to the exiles, to your fellow countrymen, and speak to them. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says,’ whether they pay attention or not.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 2:7Ezek 2:5Ezek 3:27Ezek 33:2Ezek 33:12Ezek 33:17Ezek 33:30Acts 20:26-27Dan 12:1Dan 6:13

Ezekiel 3:12¹²Then a wind lifted me up and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from its place,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 8:39Ezek 8:3Acts 2:2Ezek 11:11 Kgs 18:12Ezek 3:141 Sam 4:21-222 Kgs 2:16Exod 40:34-35Ezek 10:18-19

Ezekiel 3:13¹³and the sound of the living beings’ wings brushing against each other, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, a great rumbling sound.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 1:24Ezek 10:16-17Ezek 10:52 Sam 5:24Ezek 1:15

Ezekiel 3:14¹⁴A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully on me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 3:15Ezek 37:1Jer 20:7-9Ezek 8:32 Kgs 2:16Ezek 1:3Ezek 3:121 Kgs 18:46Jer 20:14-18Jer 6:11

Ezekiel 3:15¹⁵I came to the exiles at Tel Abib, who lived by the Kebar River. I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 2:13Ps 137:1Ezek 1:1Gen 50:10Ezek 10:15Hab 3:16Jer 23:9Ezek 3:23Ezek 43:3

Ezekiel 3:16¹⁶At the end of seven days the Lord’ s message came to me:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 42:7

Ezekiel 3:17¹⁷“Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must give them a warning from me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 19:10Heb 13:17Isa 52:8Col 1:28Isa 62:6Jer 6:171 Cor 4:141 Thess 5:142 Cor 5:112 Cor 5:20

Ezekiel 3:18¹⁸When I say to the wicked, ‘You will certainly die,’ and you do not warn him—you do not speak out to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked lifestyle so that he may live—that wicked person will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 33:6Jas 5:19-20Ezek 3:20Acts 20:26-27Ezek 33:8-10Luke 13:51 Tim 4:16Acts 2:40Eph 5:5-6Ezek 18:20

Ezekiel 3:19¹⁹But as for you, if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wicked deed and from his wicked lifestyle, he will die for his iniquity but you will have saved your own life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 33:91 Tim 4:16Ezek 14:202 Thess 1:8-9Ezek 14:14Heb 12:25Acts 20:26Heb 10:26-27Jer 42:19-22Prov 29:1

Ezekiel 3:20²⁰“When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I set an obstacle before him, he will die. If you have not warned him, he will die for his sin. The righteous deeds he performed will not be considered, but I will hold you accountable for his death.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 18:24Ezek 18:26Ezek 33:12-13Ezek 3:18Heb 10:38Rom 2:7-82 Pet 2:18-22Ps 125:51 John 2:192 Thess 2:9-12

Ezekiel 3:21²¹However, if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he will certainly live because he was warned, and you will have saved your own life.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 4:161 Cor 4:14Jas 5:20Prov 9:9Titus 2:151 John 3:6-9Acts 20:31Ezek 3:19-20Gal 1:6-10Ps 19:11

Ezekiel 3:22²²The hand of the Lord rested on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the valley, and I will speak with you there.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 9:6Ezek 1:3Ezek 37:1Ezek 8:4Ezek 3:14

Ezekiel 3:23²³So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I threw myself face down.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 1:28Acts 7:55Rev 1:17Dan 10:8-9Dan 8:17Ezek 1:1-4Ezek 10:18Ezek 9:3Num 16:19Num 16:42

Ezekiel 3:24²⁴Then a wind came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord spoke to me and said, “Go shut yourself in your house.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 2:2Dan 10:19Dan 10:8-10Ezek 37:10Ezek 4:1-4

Ezekiel 3:25²⁵As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 4:8Acts 20:23Acts 21:11-13Acts 9:16John 21:18Mark 3:21

Ezekiel 3:26²⁶I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 24:27Amos 8:11-12Luke 1:20-22Mic 3:6-7Ps 137:6Ps 51:15Amos 5:10Ezek 2:3-8Hos 4:17Isa 1:2

Ezekiel 3:27²⁷But when I speak with you, I will loosen your tongue and you must say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’ Those who listen will listen, but the indifferent will refuse, for they are a rebellious house.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 12:2-3Ezek 24:27Ezek 3:11Ezek 29:21Eph 6:19Exod 4:11-12Ezek 11:25Ezek 2:5Ezek 3:26Ezek 3:9