{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/ezekiel/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T09:49:40.945Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Ezekiel","bookSlug":"ezekiel","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":48,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Moreover he said to me, Son of man, eat that you find; eat this roll, and go speak to the house of Israel."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And he said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this roll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And he said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus said the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong on me."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelled by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him not warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Again, When a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also you have delivered your soul."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And the hand of the LORD was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Then the spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet, and spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But you, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And I will make your tongue sticks to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; He that hears, let him hear; and he that declines, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house."}],"citation":{"inline":"Ezekiel 3 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Ezekiel 3](https://primebible.com/akjv/ezekiel/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/ezekiel/3 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}