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Ezekiel 3:6-8
New English Translation

6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand.[a] Surely if[b] I had sent you to them, they would listen to you! 7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you,[c] because they are not willing to listen to me,[d] for the whole house of Israel is hardheaded and hardhearted.[e]

8 “I have made your face adamant[f] to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 3:6 tn Heb “hear.”
  2. Ezekiel 3:6 tc The MT reads: “if not,” but most ancient versions translate only “if.” The expression occurs with this sense in Isa 5:9 and 14:24. See also Ezek 34:8; 36:5; 38:19.
  3. Ezekiel 3:7 sn Moses (Exod 3:19) and Isaiah (Isa 6:9-10) were also told that their messages would not be received.
  4. Ezekiel 3:7 sn A similar description of Israel’s disobedience is given in 1 Sam 8:7.
  5. Ezekiel 3:7 tn Heb “hard of forehead and stiff of heart.”
  6. Ezekiel 3:8 tn Heb “strong, resolute.”
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