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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 3
And he said to me: Son of man, eat all that thou shalt
find: eat this book, and go speak to the children of
Israel.
And I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that
book :
And he said to me: Son of man, thy belly shall eat,
and thy bowels shall be filled with this book, which
I give thee. And I did eat it: and it was sweet as honey
in my mouth.
And he said to me: Son of man, go to the house of Israel,
and thou shalt speak my words to them.
For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech,
and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:
Nor to many nations of a strange speech, and of an unknown
tongue, whose words thou canst not understand: and if
thou wert sent to them, they would hearken to thee.
But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because
they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel
are of a hard forehead and an obstinate heart.
Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces:
and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.
I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint:
fear them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence:
for they are a provoking house.
And he said to me: Son of man, receive in thy heart,
and hear with thy ears, all the words that I speak to
thee:
And go get thee in to them of the captivity, to the
children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them,
and shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If so be
they will hear and will forbear.
And the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the
voice of a great commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory
of the Lord, from his place.
And the noise of the wings of the living creatures striking
one against another, and the noise of the wheels following
the living creatures, and the noise of a great commotion.
The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went
away in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit:
for the hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening
me.
And I came to them of the captivity, to the heap of
new corn, to them that dwelt by the river Chobar, and
I sat where they sat: and I remained there seven days
mourning in the midst of them.
And at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came
to me, saying:
Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house
of Israel: and thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth,
and shalt tell it them from me.
If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die:
thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he
may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the
same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will
require his blood at thy hand.
But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not
converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way:
he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered
thy soul.
Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice,
and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock
before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given
him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices
which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will
require his blood at thy hand.
But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not
sin, and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because
thou hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.
And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to
me: Rise and go forth into the plain, and there I will
speak to thee.
And I rose up, and went forth into the plain: and behold
the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which
I saw by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.
And the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet:
and he spoke to me, and said to me: Go in; and shut
thyself up in the midst of thy house.
And thou, O son of man, behold they shall put bands
upon thee, and they shall bind thee with them: and thou
shalt not go forth from the midst of them.
And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of
thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man
that reproveth: because they are a provoking house.
But when I shall speak to thee, I will open thy mouth,
and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:
He that heareth, let him hear: and he that forbeareth,
let him forbear: for they are a provoking house.
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