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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Ezekiel 3:2

So I opened my mouth, - and he caused me to eat this roll.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Impenitence;   Thompson Chain Reference - Leaders;   Ministers;   Religious;   Responsibility;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Preaching;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Book;   Roll;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Book;   Water of Jealousy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel;   Repentance;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Book;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Roll;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.
Hebrew Names Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
King James Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
English Standard Version
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat.
New American Standard Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.
New Century Version
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.
Amplified Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.
World English Bible
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So I opened my mouth, and he gaue mee this roule to eate.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.
Legacy Standard Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.
Berean Standard Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.
Contemporary English Version
He handed me the scroll and said, "Eat this and fill up on it." So I ate the scroll, and it tasted sweet as honey.
Complete Jewish Bible
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat,
Darby Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
Easy-to-Read Version
So I opened my mouth and he put the scroll into my mouth.
George Lamsa Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that scroll.
Good News Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.
Lexham English Bible
And I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat,
Literal Translation
So I opened my mouth, and He made me eat that roll.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So I opened my mouth, and he gaue me the boke for to eate,
American Standard Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.
Bible in Basic English
And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that roll.
King James Version (1611)
So I opened my mouth, and hee caused me to eate that roule.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So I opened my mouth, and he fed me with this roule.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So he opened my mouth, and caused me to eat the volume.
English Revised Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y openyde my mouth, and he fedde me with that volym.
Update Bible Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.
Webster's Bible Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
New English Translation
So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.
New King James Version
So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that scroll.
New Living Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.
New Life Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this book.
New Revised Standard
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that book:
Revised Standard Version
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.
Young's Literal Translation
And I open my mouth, and He causeth me to eat this roll.
THE MESSAGE
As I opened my mouth, he gave me the scroll to eat, saying, "Son of man, eat this book that I am giving you. Make a full meal of it!" So I ate it. It tasted so good—just like honey.

Contextual Overview

1 Then said he unto me, Son of man What thou findest, eat, - -eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, - and he caused me to eat this roll. 3 Then said he unto me Son of man. Thy belly, cause thou to eat and thy bowels, fl thou with this roll which I am giving unto thee. So I did eat, and it became in my mouth, as honey for sweetness. 4 Then said he unto me, - Son of man Go get thee unto the house of Israel, and thou shalt speak with my words, unto them. 5 For not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue, art thou sent - but unto the house of Israel: 6 liner unto many peoples deep of lip and heavy of tongue, whose words thou couldst not understand, - surely if unto them I had sent thee, they would have hearkened unto thee. 7 But the house of Israel will not be willing to hearken unto thee, for they are not willing to hearken unto me, - for all the house of Israel are bold of forehead and hard of heart. 8 Lo! I have made thy face bold like as their faces, and thy forehead bold like as their forehead. 9 As an adamant harder than flint, have I made thy forehead, - thou shalt not fear them neither shalt thou be dismayed at their faces, For a perverse house, they are! 10 Then said he unto me, - Son of man. All my words which I shall speak unto thee, receive thou into thy heart and in thine ears, hear thou:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 25:17, Acts 26:19

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 11:4 - General

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I opened my mouth,.... To take in the roll, and eat it; he was not disobedient to the heavenly vision; he did all that he could towards eating it, but was not sufficient of himself; and therefore it follows:

and he caused me to eat that roll; he, the Lord, put it into his mouth, caused him to eat it, and tilled him with it, according to his promise,

Psalms 81:10. The efficacy and sufficiency to think of good things, to meditate upon them, receive and digest them, are of God; it is he that makes men prophets, and able ministers. The Targum is,

"and I inclined my soul, and he taught me (or made me wise "with") what was written in this roll.''


 
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