1 En Hy het vir my gesê: Mensekind, staan op jou voete, dat Ek met jou kan spreek.

2 En die Gees het in my gekom sodra Hy met my gespreek het, en my op my voete laat staan; en ek het Hom gehoor wat met my gespreek het.

3 Hy sê toe vir my: Mensekind, Ek stuur jou na die kinders van Israel, na die opstandige nasies wat teen My opgestaan het; hulle en hul vaders het teen My oortree tot hierdie selfde dag toe.

4 En die kinders is hard van aangesig en verstok van hart. Ek stuur jou na hulle, en jy moet vir hulle sê: So spreek die Here HERE!

5 Maar of hulle nou al luister of nie -- want hulle is 'n wederstrewige huis -- hulle sal moet erken dat daar 'n profeet in hulle midde gewees het.

6 En jy, mensekind, wees nie vir hulle of vir hulle woorde bevrees nie, omdat distels en dorings by jou is, en jy by skerpioene woon; wees nie bevrees vir hulle woorde en wees voor hulle aangesig nie verskrik nie, want hulle is 'n wederstrewige huis.

7 Maar jy moet hulle my woorde verkondig, of hulle al luister of nie; want hulle is wederstrewig.

8 Maar jy, mensekind, luister na wat Ek jou sê; wees nie wederstrewig soos die wederstrewige huis nie; maak jou mond wyd oop, en eet wat Ek jou gee.

9 Toe kyk ek, en daar was 'n hand na my toe uitgesteek, en daarin 'n boekrol!

10 En Hy het dit voor my uitgesprei; en dit was beskrywe op die voor-- en agterkant, en daarop was geskrywe klaagliedere en gesug en wee.

1 And he said to me, Son of man, get up on your feet, so that I may say words to you.

2 And at his words the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and his voice came to my ears.

3 And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day.

4 And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.

5 And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them.

6 And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

7 And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.

8 But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.

9 And looking, I saw a hand stretched out to me, and I saw the roll of a book in it;

10 And he put it open before me, and it had writing on the front and on the back; words of grief and sorrow and trouble were recorded in it.