Ezekiel 2:4 “They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, an…”

Ezekiel 2:4

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.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

World English Bible

The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’

American Standard Version

And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

For they are impudent children, and stiffe hearted: I do send thee vnto them, and thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God.

Darby Translation

and these children are impudent and hard-hearted: I am sending thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

And the sons [are] brazen-faced and hard-hearted to whom I am sending thee, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah:

Bible in Basic English

And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.

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Cross references

“they”

Ezekiel 3:7 Psalm 95:8 Isaiah 48:4 Jeremiah 5:3 Jeremiah 6:15 Deuteronomy 10:16

Ezekiel 3:7 · BSB

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 95:8 · BSB

do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

Isaiah 48:4 · BSB

For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 6:15 · BSB

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 10:16 · BSB

Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

“impudent”

Proverbs 21:29

Proverbs 21:29 · BSB

A wicked man hardens his face, but the upright man makes his way sure.

“Thus”

1 Kings 22:14 Jeremiah 26:2 Jeremiah 26:3 Acts 20:26 Acts 20:27

1 Kings 22:14 · BSB

But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I will speak whatever the LORD tells me.”

Jeremiah 26:2 · BSB

“This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to worship there. Do not omit a word.

Jeremiah 26:3 · BSB

Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.

Acts 20:26 · BSB

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

Acts 20:27 · BSB

For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.

5And whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Read Ezekiel 2