Ezekiel 2:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ The descendants are impudent and stubborn. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And the children are impudent and hard of heart. I send you to them and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.

Common English Bible

⁴ I’m sending you to their hardheaded and hard-hearted descendants, and you will say to them: The LORD God proclaims.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And those to whom I am sending you are sons with a hard face and an unyielding heart. And you shall say to them: 'Thus says the Lord God.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And they to whom I send thee are children of a hard face and of an obstinate heart: and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:

Ezekiel 2:4 Cross References

1 Kings 22:14

But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, whatever the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not now be stiff-necked as your ancestors were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 36:13

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Psalm 95:8

Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

Proverbs 21:29

The wicked put on a bold face, but the upright give thought to their ways.

Isaiah 48:4

Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

Jeremiah 1:7

But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a boy,’ for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come, yet you have the forehead of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 36:21

Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who stood beside the king.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.

Jeremiah 6:15

They acted shamefully; they committed abomination, yet they were not ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:12

They acted shamefully; they committed abomination, yet they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 3:11

then go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them. Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ whether they hear or refuse to hear.”

Ezekiel 3:27

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God’; let those who will hear, hear, and let those who refuse to hear, refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 3:4

He said to me, “Mortal, go to the house of Israel and speak my very words to them.

Ezekiel 3:7

But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me, because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.

Amos 7:15

and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

Zechariah 7:12

They made their hearts adamant in order not to hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise, then, the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I know well how rebellious and stubborn you are. If you already have been so rebellious toward the Lord while I am still alive among you, how much more after my death!