2And he said to me, “Son of man,^a stand on your feet, so that I can speak with you.” ²And the Spirit^b came into me as he was speaking to me, and it set me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me. ³And he said to me, “Son of man,^c I am sending you to the Israelites,^d to nations^e who are rebelling, who rebelled against me, they and their ancestors,^f they transgressed against me until this very day.^g ⁴And the children^h are impudentⁱ and stubborn,^j and so I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh!’ ⁵And they, whether they listen or whether they fail to listen, for they are a rebellious house, they will know that a prophet was in their midst. ⁶And you, son of man,^k you must not be afraid of them, and you must not be afraid of their words, because^l briers and thorns are with you, and you are sitting among scorpions. You must not be afraid of their words, and you must not be dismayed because of their looks,^m for they are a rebellious house. ⁷And you must speak my words to them whether they listen or whether they fail to listen, for they are rebellious. ⁸And you, son of man,ⁿ hear what I am speaking to you: you must not be rebellious like the house of rebellion. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving to you.” ⁹And I looked,^o and look! There was a hand stretched out to me, and look! In it was a scroll with writing.^p ¹⁰And he rolled it out^q before me,^r and it was written on the front and back, and there were written on it laments and mourning and wailing.^s

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Footnotes

aOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
bOr “a spirit”
cOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
dLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
eOr “a people”
fHebrew “fathers”
gLiterally “until the day the this”
hOr “sons”
iLiterally “hard of face”
jLiterally “strong of heart”
kOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
lOr “although”
mLiterally “faces”
nOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
oOr “saw”
pLiterally “a scroll of a book”
qOr “he spread it out”
rLiterally “to the face of me”
sOr “woe”