Ezekiel

1他对我说：「人子啊，要吃你所得的，要吃这书卷，好去对以色列家讲说。」

2于是我开口，他就使我吃这书卷，

3又对我说：「人子啊，要吃我所赐给你的这书卷，充满你的肚腹。」我就吃了，口中觉得其甜如蜜。

4他对我说：「人子啊，你往以色列家那里去，将我的话对他们讲说。

5你奉差遣不是往那说话深奥、言语难懂的民那里去，乃是往以色列家去；

6不是往那说话深奥、言语难懂的多国去，他们的话语是你不懂得的。我若差你往他们那里去，他们必听从你。

7以色列家却不肯听从你，因为他们不肯听从我；原来以色列全家是额坚心硬的人。

8看哪，我使你的脸硬过他们的脸，使你的额硬过他们的额。

9我使你的额像金钢钻，比火石更硬。他们虽是悖逆之家，你不要怕他们，也不要因他们的脸色惊惶。」

10他又对我说：「人子啊，我对你所说的一切话，要心里领会，耳中听闻。

11你往你本国被掳的子民那里去，他们或听，或不听，你要对他们讲说，告诉他们这是主耶和华说的。」

12那时，灵将我举起，我就听见在我身后有震动轰轰的声音，说：「从耶和华的所在显出来的荣耀是该称颂的！」

13我又听见那活物翅膀相碰，与活物旁边轮子旋转震动轰轰的响声。

14于是灵将我举起，带我而去。我心中甚苦，灵性忿激，并且耶和华的灵在我身上大有能力。

15我就来到提勒·亚毕，住在迦巴鲁河边被掳的人那里，到他们所住的地方，在他们中间忧忧闷闷地坐了七日。

耶和华派以西结作守望者

16过了七日，耶和华的话临到我说：

17「人子啊，我立你作以色列家守望的人，所以你要听我口中的话，替我警戒他们。

18我何时指着恶人说：他必要死；你若不警戒他，也不劝戒他，使他离开恶行，拯救他的性命，这恶人必死在罪孽之中；我却要向你讨他丧命的罪。

19倘若你警戒恶人，他仍不转离罪恶，也不离开恶行，他必死在罪孽之中，你却救自己脱离了罪。

20再者，义人何时离义而犯罪，我将绊脚石放在他面前，他就必死；因你没有警戒他，他必死在罪中，他素来所行的义不被记念；我却要向你讨他丧命的罪。

21倘若你警戒义人，使他不犯罪，他就不犯罪；他因受警戒就必存活，你也救自己脱离了罪。」

以西结暂成哑巴

22耶和华的灵在那里降在我身上。他对我说：「你起来往平原去，我要在那里和你说话。」

23于是我起来往平原去，不料，耶和华的荣耀正如我在迦巴鲁河边所见的一样，停在那里，我就俯伏于地。

24灵就进入我里面，使我站起来。耶和华对我说：「你进房屋去，将门关上。

25人子啊，人必用绳索捆绑你，你就不能出去在他们中间来往。

26我必使你的舌头贴住上膛，以致你哑口，不能作责备他们的人；他们原是悖逆之家。

27但我对你说话的时候，必使你开口，你就要对他们说：『主耶和华如此说。』听的可以听，不听的任他不听，因为他们是悖逆之家。」

1And he said to me: Son of man, eat all that thou shalt find: eat this book, and go speak to the children of Israel.

2And I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that book:

3And he said to me: Son of man, thy belly shall eat, and thy bowels shall be filled with this book, which I give thee. And I did eat it: and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

4And he said to me: Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and thou shalt speak my words to them.

5For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:

6Nor to many nations of a strange speech, and of an unknown tongue, whose words thou canst not understand: and if thou wert sent to them, they would hearken to thee.

7But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and an obstinate heart.

8Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.

9I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint: fear them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for they are a provoking house.

10And he said to me: Son of man, receive in thy heart, and hear with thy ears, all the words that I speak to thee:

11And go get thee in to them of the captivity, to the children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them, and shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If so be they will hear and will forbear.

12And the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory of the Lord, from his place.

13And the noise of the wings of the living creatures striking one against another, and the noise of the wheels following the living creatures, and the noise of a great commotion.

14The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me.

15And I came to them of the captivity, to the heap of new corn, to them that dwelt by the river Chobar, and I sat where they sat: and I remained there seven days mourning in the midst of them.

16And at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

17Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.

18If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.

19But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.

20Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand.

21But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.

22And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to me: Rise and go forth into the plain, and there I will speak to thee.

23And I rose up, and went forth into the plain: and behold the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.

24And the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet: and he spoke to me, and said to me: Go in; and shut thyself up in the midst of thy house.

25And thou, O son of man, behold they shall put bands upon thee, and they shall bind thee with them: and thou shalt not go forth from the midst of them.

26And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth: because they are a provoking house.

27But when I shall speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: He that heareth, let him hear: and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a provoking house.