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And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.

And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are in rebellion.

And he said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your insides with this roll that I give you. Then I ate it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

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

But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.

and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He that hears, let him hear; and he that forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

You also, son of man, take for yourself a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

And you take to yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

And again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, I have appointed it to you.

Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! look, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither has there come contaminated flesh into my mouth.

Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.

And she has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they haven't walked in them.

when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;

And those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their disgusting behaviors.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil disgusting behaviors of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

The time has come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude thereof.

For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they are yet alive: for the vision is concerning the whole multitude thereof, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all the multitude thereof.