¶He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.

So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

He said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

For you are not sent to a people of a strange speechᵃ and of a hard languageᴮ, but to the house of Israel;

not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv suspended, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.and I went about to those dwelling upon the river Chobar, those being there, and I sat down there seven days, being turn about in the middle of them.

Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.

When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.