Ezekiel

The book of the prophet Ezekiel, chapter 3, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 3 Vulgate

   1 Et dixit ad me: "Fili hominis, quodcumque inveneris, comede; comede volumen istud et vadens loquere ad filios Israel".
   2 Et aperui os meum, et cibavit me volumine illo
   3 et dixit ad me: "Fili hominis, venter tuus comedet, et viscera tua complebuntur volumine isto, quod ego do tibi". Et comedi illud, et factum est in ore meo sicut mel dulce.
   4 Et dixit ad me: "Fili hominis, vade ad domum Israel et loqueris verba mea ad eos.
   5 Non enim ad populum profundi sermonis et ignotae linguae tu mitteris, ad domum Israel;
   6 neque ad populos multos profundi sermonis et ignotae linguae, quorum non possis audire sermones; et si ad illos mittereris, ipsi audirent te.
   7 Domus autem Israel nolunt audire te, quia nolunt audire me; omnis quippe domus Israel dura fronte est et obstinato corde.
   8 Ecce dedi faciem tuam valentiorem faciebus eorum et frontem tuam duriorem frontibus eorum;
   9 ut adamantem et duriorem silice dedi faciem tuam: ne timeas eos neque metuas a facie eorum, quia domus exasperans est".
   10 Et dixit ad me: "Fili hominis, omnes sermones meos, quos loquor ad te, assume in corde tuo et auribus tuis audi.
   11 Et vade, ingredere ad transmigrationem, ad filios populi tui, et loqueris ad eos et dices eis: Haec dicit Dominus Deus; sive audiant, sive contemnant".
   12 Et assumpsit me spiritus, et audivi post me vocem commotionis magnae, cum elevaretur gloria Domini de loco suo;
   13 et vocem alarum animalium percutientium alteram ad alteram et vocem rotarum sequentium animalia et vocem commotionis magnae.
   14 Spiritus quoque levavit me et assumpsit me; et abii amarus in indignatione spiritus mei: manus enim Domini erat super me gravis.
   15 Et veni ad transmigrationem, ad Telabib, ad eos, qui habitabant iuxta flumen Chobar; et sedi, ubi illi sedebant, et mansi ibi septem diebus obstupefactus in medio eorum.
   16 Cum autem pertransissent septem dies, factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens:
   17 "Fili hominis, speculatorem dedi te domui Israel; et audies de ore meo verbum et commonebis eos ex me.
   18 Si, dicente me ad impium: Morte morieris, non commonueris eum neque locutus fueris ei, ut avertatur a via sua impia et vivat, ipse impius in iniquitate sua morietur, sanguinem autem eius de manu tua requiram.
   19 Si autem tu commonueris impium, et ille non fuerit conversus ab impietate sua et a via sua impia, ipse quidem in iniquitate sua morietur, tu autem animam tuam liberasti.
   20 Sed et si conversus iustus a iustitia sua, fecerit iniquitatem, ponam offendiculum coram eo; ipse morietur, quia non commonuisti eum: in peccato suo morietur, et non erunt in memoria iustitiae eius, quas fecit; sanguinem vero eius de manu tua requiram.
   21 Si autem tu commonueris iustum, ut non peccet iustus, et ille non peccaverit, vivens vivet, quia commonuisti eum et tu animam tuam liberasti".
   22 Et facta est super me manus Domini, et dixit ad me: "Surgens egredere in campum, et ibi loquar tecum".
   23 Et surgens egressus sum in campum, et ecce ibi gloria Domini stabat quasi gloria, quam vidi iuxta fluvium Chobar, et cecidi in faciem meam.
   24 Et ingressus est in me spiritus et statuit me super pedes meos et locutus est mihi et dixit ad me: "Ingredere et includere in medio domus tuae.
   25 Et tu, fili hominis, ecce data sunt super te vincula, et ligabunt te in eis, et non egredieris in medio eorum;
   26 et linguam tuam adhaerere faciam palato tuo, et eris mutus nec quasi vir obiurgans, quia domus exasperans est.
   27 Cum autem locutus fuero tibi, aperiam os tuum, et dices ad eos: Haec dicit Dominus Deus. Qui audit, audiat; et, qui contemnit, contemnat, quia domus exasperans est".

King James Version

   1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
   2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
   3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
   4 ¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
   5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
   6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
   7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
   8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
   9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
   10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
   11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
   12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
   13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
   14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
   15 ¶ Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
   16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
   17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
   18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest 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 thine hand.
   19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
   20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
   21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
   22 ¶ And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
   23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
   24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
   25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
   26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
   27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.