Ezekiel 2

Living Bible

2 And he said to me: “Stand up, son of dust,^[a] and I will talk to you.”

² And the Spirit entered into me as he spoke, and set me on my feet.

³ “Son of dust,” he said, “I am sending you to the nation of Israel, to a nation rebelling against me. They and their fathers have kept on sinning against me until this very hour. ⁴ For they are a hard-hearted, stiff-necked people. But I am sending you to give them my messages—the messages of the Lord God. ⁵ And whether they listen or not (for remember, they are rebels), they will at least know they have had a prophet among them.

⁶ “Son of dust, don’t be afraid of them; don’t be frightened even though their threats are sharp and barbed and sting like scorpions. Don’t be dismayed by their dark scowls. For remember, they are rebels! ⁷ You must give them my messages whether they listen or not (but they won’t,^[b] for they are utter rebels). ⁸ Listen, son of dust, to what I say to you. Don’t you be a rebel too! Open your mouth and eat what I give you.”

^9-10 Then I looked and saw a hand holding out to me a scroll, with writing on both sides. He unrolled it, and I saw that it was full of warnings and sorrows and pronouncements of doom.