Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
6 If I sent you to great nations that spoke difficult languages you didn't understand, they would listen to you.
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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 none of the people of Israel will be willing to listen; they will not even listen to me. All of them are stubborn and defiant.
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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 Now I will make you as stubborn and as tough as they are.
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But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.
9 I will make you as firm as a rock, as hard as a diamond; don't be afraid of those 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 God continued, "Mortal man, pay close attention and remember everything I tell you.
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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 the people of your nation who are in exile and tell them what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying to them, whether they pay attention 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 God's spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the loud roar of a voice that said, "Praise the glory of the Lord in heaven above!"
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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.
13 I heard the wings of the creatures beating together in the air, and the noise of the wheels, as loud as an earthquake.
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It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against each other and the sound of the wheels beside them, a loud rumbling sound.
14 The power of the Lord came on me with great force, and as his spirit carried me off, I felt bitter and angry.
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The Spirit then lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD on me.
15 So I came to Tel Abib beside the Chebar River, where the exiles were living, and for seven days I stayed there, overcome by what I had seen and heard.
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I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Aviv near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days—deeply distressed.
16 After the seven days had passed, the Lord spoke to me.
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At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me:
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