Ezekiel 2:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • Ezek 3:7 : 7 But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
  • Jer 6:15 : 15 Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.
  • Ps 95:8 : 8 Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
  • Isa 48:4 : 4 Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
  • Jer 3:3 : 3 So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.
  • Prov 21:29 : 29 The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.
  • Deut 10:16 : 16 Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.
  • Deut 31:27 : 27 For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?
  • 1 Kgs 22:14 : 14 And Micaiah said, By the living Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say.
  • 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.
  • Jer 8:12 : 12 Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.
  • Jer 26:2-3 : 2 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word; 3 It may be that they will give ear, and that every man will be turned from his evil way, so that my purpose of sending evil on them because of the evil of their doings may be changed.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
  • Acts 20:26-27 : 26 And so I say to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men. 27 For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.

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  • Ezek 2:3
    87%

    3 And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day.

  • Ezek 3:4-11
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    80%

    4 And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.

    5 For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;

    6 Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.

    7 But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.

    8 See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.

    9 Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

    10 Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.

    11 And go now to those who have been taken away as prisoners, to the children of your people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said; if they give ear or if they do not.

  • Ezek 2:5-8
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    5 And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them.

    6 And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

    7 And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.

    8 But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.

  • Jer 1:6-7
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    6 Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.

    7 But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for wherever I send you, you are to go, and whatever I give you orders to say, you are to say.

  • Ezek 3:26-27
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    26 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.

    27 But when I have talk with you I will make your mouth open, and you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Let the hearer give ear; and as for him who will not, let him keep his ears shut: for they are an uncontrolled people.

  • Ezek 12:1-3
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    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.

    3 And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.

  • Isa 30:9
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    9 For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

  • Ezek 14:2-4
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    2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    3 Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?

    4 For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;

  • Ezek 12:9-10
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    9 Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing?

    10 You are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: This word has to do with the ruler in Jerusalem and all the children of Israel in it.

  • Deut 9:13
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    13 And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

  • Jer 7:26-27
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    26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

    27 And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.

  • Ezek 11:4
    71%

    4 For this cause be a prophet against them, be a prophet, O son of man.

  • Ezek 20:27
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    27 For this cause, son of man, say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: In this your fathers have further put shame on my name by doing wrong against me.

  • Jer 26:4
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    4 And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,

  • Ezek 28:11
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    11 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 3:17
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    17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.

  • Ezek 20:4
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    4 Will you be their judge, O son of man, will you be their judge? make clear to them the disgusting ways of their fathers,

  • Ezek 22:17
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    17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Jer 1:17
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    17 So make yourself ready, and go and say to them everything I give you orders to say: do not be overcome by fear of them, or I will send fear on you before them.

  • Isa 1:2
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    2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.

  • Amos 3:1
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    1 Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
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    14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

  • Ezek 44:6
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    6 And say to the uncontrolled children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: O you children of Israel, let it be enough for you, among the disgusting things which you have done,

  • Ezek 12:26
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    26 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 33:7
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    7 So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger.

  • Jer 6:10
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    10 To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

  • Jer 11:10
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    10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

  • Ezek 11:14
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    14 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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    1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

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    12 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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    9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

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    1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,