Ezekiel 2 GNV
Summary: A voice commands Ezekiel to stand, and the Spirit enters him and sets him on his feet as God commissions him to go to the rebellious house of Israel, "a nation of rebels" who have transgressed against him, warning that whether they listen or refuse, they will know a prophet has been among them. Ezekiel is told not to fear their words or looks, though they are like briers, thorns, and scorpions surrounding him. A hand extends a scroll covered with writing on both sides, full of "words of lamentation and mourning and woe," which Ezekiel is commanded to eat before he can speak the message to Israel.
1And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, stand vp vpon thy feete, and I wil speake vnto thee.
2And the Spirite entred into me, when he had spoken vnto me, and set me vpon my feete, so that I heard him that spake vnto me.
3And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: for they and their fathers haue rebelled against me, euen vnto this very day.
4For they are impudent children, and stiffe hearted: I do send thee vnto them, and thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God.
5But surely they will not heare, neither in deede will they cease: for they are a rebellious house: yet shall they knowe that there hath bene a Prophet among them.
6And thou sonne of man, feare them not, neither be afraide of their wordes, although rebels, and thornes be with thee, and thou remainest with scorpions: feare not their wordes, nor be afrayde at their lookes, for they are a rebellious house.
7Therefore thou shalt speake my words vnto them: but surely they will not heare, neither will they in deede cease: for they are rebellious.
8But thou sonne of man, heare what I say vnto thee: be not thou rebellious, like this rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eate that I giue thee.
9And when I looked vp, beholde, an hande was sent vnto me, and loe, a roule of a booke was therein.
10And he spred it before me, and it was written within and without, and there was written therein, Lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
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