Ezekiel 2:8–3:3

⁸“But you, mortal, hear what I say to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”^{* 9}I looked, and a hand was stretched out to me, and a written scroll was in it.^{* 10}He spread it before me; it had writing on the front and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

³He said to me, “O mortal, eat what is offered to you; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”^{* 2}So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat. ³He said to me, “Mortal, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey.^*