Ezekiel 2:4
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For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God.They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’
In other translations
For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God.They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’
Hebrew words
וְהַבָּנִיםvehabanimand the childrenH1121קְשֵׁיkeshei[are] stern ofH7186פָנִיםfanimfaceH6440וְחִזְקֵי־vechizkei-and hard ofH2389לֵבlevheartH3820אֲנִי'aniIH589שׁוֹלֵחַsholeach[am] sendingH7971אוֹתְךָ'otkha<obj.> youH853אֲלֵיהֶם'aleihemto themH413וְאָמַרְתָּve'amartaand you will sayH559אֲלֵיהֶם'aleihemto themH413כֹּהkohthusH3541אָמַר'amarhe saysH559אֲדֹנָי'adonai[the] LordH136יְהֹוִה׃yahwehYahwehH3069
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Ezekiel 3:7But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
- Psalm 95:8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
- Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
- Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
- Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.
- 1 Kings 22:14And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak.But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I will speak whatever the LORD tells me.”
- Deuteronomy 10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
- Jeremiah 8:12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 31:27For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
- 2 Chronicles 30:8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
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