²² Now ^(A)the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the man came who had escaped. And He had ^(B)opened my mouth; so when he came to me in the morning, my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

³ the word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the ^[a]Chaldeans by the River Chebar; and ^(A)the hand of the Lord was upon him there.

^26 (A)I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and ^(B)not be ^[a]one to rebuke them, ^(C)for they are a rebellious house. ^27 (D)But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ^(E)‘Thus says the Lord God.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

The Dry Bones Live

37 The ^(A)hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out ^(B)in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.

²⁶ that on that day ^(A)one who escapes will come to you to let you hear it with your ears? ^27 (B)On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you shall speak and no longer be mute. Thus you will be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”

⁶⁴ Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, praising God.

A New City, a New Temple

40 In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after ^(A)the city was ^[a]captured, on the very same day ^(B)the hand of the Lord was upon me; and He took me there.

^22 (A)Then the hand of the Lord was upon me there, and He said to me, “Arise, go out ^(B)into the plain, and there I shall talk with you.”