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Ezekiel 3:8 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. "
Ezekiel 3:8
Verse in Context
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6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.
7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.
8 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
9 I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”
10 Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.
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Ezekiel 3:1
"He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”"
Ezekiel 3:2
"So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll."
Ezekiel 3:3
"He said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your belly and your bowels with it.” Then I ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth."
Ezekiel 3:4
"He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them."
Ezekiel 3:5
"For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel—"
Ezekiel 3:6
"not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you."
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