He said to me, “Son of man,^a stand^b up on your feet and I will speak to you.^c” As he spoke, the Spirit came into me and raised me^d to my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.

He said: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day.^e The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn.^f Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’^g And whether they listen or fail to listen^h—for they are a rebellious houseⁱ—they will know that a prophet has been among them.^j And you, son of man, do not be afraid^k of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns^l are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious house.^m You must speakⁿ my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious.^o But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel^p^q like that rebellious house;^r open your mouth and eat^s what I give you.”

Then I looked, and I saw a hand^t stretched out to me. In it was a scroll,^u which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.^v

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Cross references

a Job 25:6; Ps 8:4; Eze 1:26; Da 7:13; 8:15
b Da 10:11; Ac 14:10; 26:16
c Ac 9:6
d Eze 3:24; Da 8:18
e Jer 3:25; Eze 5:6; 20:8–24; 24:3
f Ex 32:9; Isa 9:9; Eze 3:7
g Am 7:15
h Eze 3:11
i Eze 3:27
j Jer 5:3; Eze 33:33; Jn 15:22
k Dt 31:6; 2Ki 1:15
l Nu 33:55; Isa 9:18; Mic 7:4
m Isa 1:2; 30:9; Eze 24:3; 44:6
n Jer 7:27
o Jer 1:7; 42:21; Eze 3:10–11
p Nu 20:10–13
q Isa 8:11
r Isa 50:5
s Ps 81:10; Jer 15:16; Rev 10:9
t Eze 8:3
u Ps 40:7; Jer 36:4; Rev 5:1–5; 10:8–10
v Isa 3:11; Rev 8:13