^{2 Ref} So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

^{3 Ref} He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

^{4 Ref} He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.

^{5 Ref} For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

^{6 Ref} not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

^{7 Ref} But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.

^{8 Ref} Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

^{9 Ref} As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

^{10 Ref} Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

^{11 Ref} Go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

^{12 Ref} Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place.

^{13 Ref} [I heard] the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.

^{14 Ref} So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.

^{15 Ref} Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.