2 Niin minä avasin suuni, ja hän antoi syödäkseni sen käärön.

5 Ei sinua lähetetä outoa, käsittämätöntä kieltä puhuvan kansan pariin, vaan Israelin kansan luo.

6 Et sinä lähde maailman monien kansojen keskelle, joiden puhe on outoa, joiden kieltä et käsitä. Jos lähettäisin sinut niiden luo, ne kuulisivat sinua.

7 Mutta Israelin kansa ei tahdo sinua kuulla, koska se ei tahdo kuulla minua. Koko Israelin kansa on kovaa ja uppiniskaista joukkoa.

8 Mutta minä teen sinusta yhtä kovan kuin he, yhtä taipumattoman kuin hekin ovat.

12 Henki nosti minut seisomaan, ja minä kuulin takaani valtavan jylinän, kun Herran kirkkaus kohosi paikaltaan.

13 Olentojen siivet kohahtivat, kun ne löivät toisiaan vasten, ja minä kuulin pyörien jyrinän ja kuulin pauhun, joka järisytti maata.

14 Ja henki nosti minut maasta ja tempasi mukaansa. Minä kuljin huumaantuneena, mitään käsittämättä, mutta Herra piti ylläni väkevää kättään.

15 Tulin sitten takaisin pakkosiirtolaisten luo Kebarjoen varrelle Tel Abibiin, minne heidät oli asetettu asumaan. Siellä minä istuin heidän keskellään seitsemän päivää kykenemättä liikkumaan tai puhumaan.

16 Seitsemän päivän kuluttua minulle tuli Herran sana:

18 Kun minä sanon jumalattomalle, että hänen on kuoltava, asetan sinut vastuuseen hänestä. Ellet sinä puhu hänelle, ellet varoita häntä hänen jumalattomuudestaan pelastaaksesi hänet, hän kuolee syntiensä tähden -- ja hänen kuolemastaan minä vaadin tilille sinut.

19 Mutta jos sinä varoitat jumalatonta eikä hän silti luovu jumalattomuudestaan, ei käänny pahoilta teiltään, hän kyllä kuolee syntiensä tähden mutta sinä pelastat elämäsi.

23 Minä lähdin laaksoon, ja siellä näin Herran kirkkauden. Se oli sama kirkkaus, jonka olin Kebarjoen rannalla nähnyt, ja minä heittäydyin maahan kasvoilleni.

25 Ihminen, näin sinun käy: Sinut pannaan köysiin, sinut sidotaan niillä, niin ettet pääse toisten luo.

26 Ja kielesi minä kiinnitän kitalakeesi, niin ettet voi puhua etkä nuhdella heitä. He ovat uppiniskaista kansaa.

27 Kun sitten sinulle puhun, minä avaan sinun suusi, ja sinun on sanottava heille tämä: 'Näin sanoo Herra Jumala: Kuulkoon se, joka haluaa kuulla, ummistakoon korvansa, joka ei halua.' He ovat uppiniskaista kansaa.

1 He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel."

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

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.

4 He said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them. 5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel— 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. 11 Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse."

12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, "Blessed be Yahweh’s glory from his place." 13 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 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me. 15 eThen I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv who lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

16 At the end of seven days, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 17 "Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me. 18 When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand. 19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul."

20 "Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand. 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul."

22 Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, "Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there."

23 Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, Yahweh’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face.

24 Then the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me, and said to me, "Go, shut yourself inside your house. 25 But you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will bind you with them, and you will not go out among them. 26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and will not be able to correct them, for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house."