Ezekiel 3:26 Cross References - BBE

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.

¹¹ Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place. ¹² There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

¹⁵ O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.

⁶ If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.

² Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.

¹⁷ So make yourself ready, and go and say to them everything I give you orders to say: do not be overcome by fear of them, or I will send fear on you before them.

⁹ Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

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.

²⁷ In that day your mouth will be open to him who has got away safe, and you will say words to him and your lips will no longer be shut: so you will be a sign to them and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.

¹⁰ They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.

¹¹ See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord. ¹² And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.

⁶ For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them. ⁷ And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.

²⁰ Now, see, you will be without voice or language till the day when these things come about, because you had not faith in my words, which will have effect at the right time. ²¹ And the people were waiting for Zacharias and were surprised because he was in the Temple for such a long time. ²² And when he came out he was not able to say anything, and they saw that he had seen a vision in the Temple; and he was making signs to them without words.