Ezekiel 3:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to the people, Thus says the Lord God; he who hears, let him hear, and he who refuses to hear, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

Common English Bible

²⁷ But whenever I speak to you, I’ll open your mouth, and you will say to them: The LORD God proclaims. Those who hear will understand, but those who refuse will not. They are just a household of rebels.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ But when I will speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them: 'Thus says the Lord God.' Whoever is listening, let him hear. And whoever is quieted, let him be quieted. For they are a provoking house."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ But when I shall speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: He that heareth, let him hear: and he that forbeareth, let him forbear. For they are a provoking house.

Ezekiel 3:27 Cross References

Ezekiel 11:25

And I told the exiles all the things that the Lord had shown me.

Ezekiel 2:4

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

Ezekiel 2:5

Whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house), they shall know that there has been a prophet among them.

Ezekiel 24:27

On that day your mouth shall be opened to the one who has escaped, and you shall speak and no longer be silent. So you shall be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 29:21

On that day I will cause a horn to sprout up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they shall know that I am 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 3:26

and I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth so that you shall be speechless and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 3:9

Like the hardest stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not fear them or be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”

Ezekiel 33:22

Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came, and he opened my mouth when the fugitive came in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer unable to speak.

Ezekiel 33:32

To them you are like a singer of love songs, one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument; they hear what you say, but they will not do it.

Matthew 11:15

Let anyone with ears listen!

Matthew 13:9

If you have ears, hear!”

Luke 21:15

for I will give you words and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict.

Ephesians 6:19

Pray also for me, so that when I speak a message may be given to me to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,