Ezekiel 3:1-7

Christian Standard Bible

3 He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find here. Eat this scroll,^(A) then go and speak to the house of Israel.” ² So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll. ³ “Son of man,” he said to me, “feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate it,^(B) and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.^(C)

⁴ Then he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them. ⁵ For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or a difficult language but to the house of Israel— ⁶ not to the many peoples of unintelligible speech or a difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. No doubt, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.^{(D) 7} But the house of Israel will not want to listen to you because they do not want to listen to me.^(E) For the whole house of Israel is hardheaded and hardhearted.