Ezekiel 3:26 “I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will…”

Ezekiel 3:26

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

Geneva Bible 1599

And I will make thy tongue cleaue to the roofe of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dume, and shalt not be to them as a man that rebuketh: for they are a rebellious house.

Darby Translation

And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

Young's Literal Translation

and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house [are] they.

Bible in Basic English

And I will make your tongue fixed to the roof of your mouth, so that you have no voice and may not make protests to them: for they are an uncontrolled people.

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Cross references

“I will”

Ezekiel 24:27 Psalm 51:15 Psalm 137:6 Luke 1:20–22 Jeremiah 1:17

Ezekiel 24:27 · BSB

On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

Psalm 51:15 · BSB

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.

Psalm 137:6 · BSB

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

Luke 1:20–22 · BSB

And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”

Jeremiah 1:17 · BSB

Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.

“and shalt”

Lamentations 2:9 Hosea 4:17 Amos 5:10 Psalm 36:11 Psalm 36:12 Amos 8:11

Lamentations 2:9 · BSB

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

Hosea 4:17 · BSB

Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

Amos 5:10 · BSB

There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

Psalm 36:11 · BSB

Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Psalm 36:12 · BSB

There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.

Amos 8:11 · BSB

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

“for”

Ezekiel 2:3–8 Isaiah 1:2

Ezekiel 2:3–8 · BSB

“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.

Isaiah 1:2 · BSB

Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

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

In context

25And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes, and you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people.

27But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you are to tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ Whoever listens, let him listen; and whoever refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

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