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2 So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.
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So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.
3 “Fill your stomach with this,” he said. And when I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
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Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
4 Then he said, “Son of man, go to the people of Israel and give them my messages.
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He then said to me: “Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to them.
5 I am not sending you to a foreign people whose language you cannot understand.
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You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language, but to the people of Israel—
6 No, I am not sending you to people with strange and difficult speech. If I did, they would listen!
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not to many peoples of obscure speech and strange language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
7 But the people of Israel won’t listen to you any more than they listen to me! For the whole lot of them are hard-hearted and stubborn.
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But the people of Israel are not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate.
8 But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are.
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But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.
9 I have made your forehead as hard as the hardest rock! So don’t be afraid of them or fear their angry looks, even though they are rebels.”
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I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.”
10 Then he added, “Son of man, let all my words sink deep into your own heart first. Listen to them carefully for yourself.
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And he said to me, “Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart all the words I speak to you.
11 Then go to your people in exile and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says!’ Do this whether they listen to you or not.”
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Go now to your people in exile and speak to them. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,’ whether they listen or fail to listen.”
12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a loud rumbling sound behind me. (May the glory of the LORD be praised in his place!)
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Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a loud rumbling sound as the glory of the LORD rose from the place where it was standing.
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