1 Daarna het Hy vir my gesê: Mensekind, eet op wat jy vind; eet hierdie rol op, en gaan spreek met die huis van Israel.
2 Toe het ek my mond oopgemaak, en Hy het my die rol laat eet
3 en vir my gesê: Mensekind, laat jou buik eet, en vul jou ingewande met hierdie rol wat Ek jou gee. En ek het dit geëet, en dit was in my mond soos heuning so soet.
4 En Hy het vir my gesê: Mensekind, kom, gaan na die huis van Israel, en spreek hulle aan met my woorde;
5 want jy is nie gestuur na 'n volk wat duister van spraak en swaar van tong is nie, maar na die huis van Israel;
6 nie na baie volke wat duister van spraak en swaar van tong is nie, wie se woorde jy nie kan verstaan nie; as Ek jou tog na hulle gestuur het, het hulle na jou geluister!
7 Maar die huis van Israel sal na jou nie wil luister nie, omdat hulle na My nie wil luister nie; want die hele huis van Israel het 'n harde voorhoof en 'n ongevoelige hart.
8 Kyk, Ek maak jou aangesig hard net soos hulle aangesig en jou voorhoof hard net soos hulle voorhoof.
9 Jou voorhoof maak Ek hard soos 'n diamant, harder as 'n rots; jy mag nie vir hulle bevrees of vir hulle verskrik wees nie, omdat hulle 'n wederstrewige huis is.
10 Verder het Hy vir my gesê: Mensekind, neem al my woorde wat Ek vir jou sal sê, in jou hart op, en hoor hulle met jou ore;
11 en kom, gaan na die ballinge, na die kinders van jou volk, en spreek met hulle en sê vir hulle: So spreek die Here HERE -- of hulle al luister of nie.
12 Toe het die Gees my opgeneem, en ek het agter my die geluid van 'n groot gedreun gehoor wat sê: Geloofd sy die heerlikheid van die HERE uit sy woonplek!
13 En ek het gehoor die geluid van die wesens se vlerke wat die een aan die ander verbind was, en die geluid van die wiele gelyktydig daarmee en die geluid van 'n groot gedreun.
14 Toe het die Gees my opgehef en my weggeneem, en ek het gegaan, verbitterd in die grimmigheid van my gees; maar die hand van die HERE was sterk op my.
15 En ek het by die ballinge gekom in Tel-Abib, wat by die Kebarrivier gewoon het, en by die plek van hulle woning; en ek het daar sewe dae lank verstom in hulle midde gesit.
16 En aan die einde van sewe dae het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:
17 Mensekind, Ek het jou as wag vir die huis van Israel aangestel; en as jy 'n woord uit my mond hoor, moet jy hulle van my kant waarsku.
18 As Ek aan die goddelose sê: Jy sal sekerlik sterwe -- en jy waarsku hom nie en spreek nie om die goddelose vir sy goddelose weg te waarsku om hom in die lewe te hou nie, dan sal hy, die goddelose, deur sy ongeregtigheid sterwe; maar sy bloed sal Ek van jou hand eis.
19 Maar as jy die goddelose waarsku, en hy hom nie van sy goddeloosheid en van sy goddelose weg bekeer nie, dan sal hy deur sy ongeregtigheid sterwe; maar jy het jou siel gered.
20 En as 'n regverdige hom van sy geregtigheid afkeer en onreg doen, en Ek 'n struikelblok voor hom gooi, dan sal hy sterwe; omdat jy hom nie gewaarsku het nie, sal hy deur sy sonde sterwe, en aan sy geregtigheid wat hy beoefen het, sal nie gedink word nie; maar sy bloed sal Ek van jou hand eis.
21 Maar as jy die regverdige waarsku, dat die regverdige nie moet sondig nie, en hy sondig nie, dan sal hy sekerlik lewe, omdat hy hom laat waarsku het; en jy het jou siel gered.
22 En die hand van die HERE was daar op my, en Hy het vir my gesê: Staan op, gaan uit na die laagte, en Ek sal daar met jou spreek.
23 Ek staan toe op en gaan na die laagte uit; en kyk, die heerlikheid van die HERE het daar gestaan soos die heerlikheid wat ek by die Kebarrivier gesien het. En ek het op my aangesig geval.
24 Toe kom die Gees in my en laat my op my voete staan; en Hy het met my gespreek en vir my gesê: Gaan in, sluit jou toe in jou huis.
25 En jy, mensekind, kyk, hulle sit vir jou toue aan en bind jou daarmee, sodat jy nie onder hulle kan uitgaan nie.
26 En Ek sal jou tong aan jou verhemelte laat klewe, sodat jy stom sal word en vir hulle geen bestraffer sal wees nie; want hulle is 'n wederstrewige huis.
27 Maar as Ek met jou spreek, sal Ek jou mond open, en jy moet aan hulle sê: So spreek die Here HERE. Wie hoor, laat hom hoor; en wie dit nalaat, laat hom dit nalaat; want hulle is 'n wederstrewige huis.
1 And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel.
2 And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.
3 And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.
4 And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.
5 For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;
6 Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.
7 But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.
8 See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.
9 Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.
10 Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.
11 And go now to those who have been taken away as prisoners, to the children of your people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said; if they give ear or if they do not.
12 Then I was lifted up by the wind, and at my back the sound of a great rushing came to my ears when the glory of the Lord was lifted up from his place.
13 And there was the sound of the wings of the living beings touching one another, and the sound of the wheels at their side, the sound of a great rushing.
14 And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.
15 Then I came to those who had been taken away as prisoners, who were at Telabib by the river Chebar, and I was seated among them full of wonder for seven days.
16 And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.
18 When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
19 But if you give the evil-doer word of his danger, and he is not turned from his sin or from his evil way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing; but your life will be safe.
20 Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
21 But if you say to the upright man that he is not to do evil, he will certainly keep his life because he took note of your word; and your life will be safe.
22 And the hand of the Lord was on me there; and he said, Get up and go out into the valley and there I will have talk with you.
23 Then I got up and went out into the valley; and I saw the glory of the Lord resting there as I had seen it by the river Chebar; and I went down on my face.
24 Then the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and he had talk with me and said to me, Go and keep yourself shut up inside your house.
25 But see, O son of man, I will put bands on you, prisoning you in them, and you will not go out among them:
26 And I will make your tongue fixed to the roof of your mouth, so that you have no voice and may not make protests to them: for they are an uncontrolled people.
27 But when I have talk with you I will make your mouth open, and you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Let the hearer give ear; and as for him who will not, let him keep his ears shut: for they are an uncontrolled people.