Ezekiel 3:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Like an adamant harder than flint or a diamond point have I made your forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. [Isa. 50:7; Jer. 1:18; 15:20; Mic. 3:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

Common English Bible

⁹ I’ve made your forehead like a diamond, harder than stone. Don’t be afraid of them or shrink away from them, because they are a household of rebels.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ I have made your face like hardened iron and like flint. You should not fear them, and you should not have dread before their face. For they are a provoking house."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint. Fear them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for they are a provoking house.

Ezekiel 3:9 Cross References

Isaiah 41:10

do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.

Isaiah 41:14

Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you maggot Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 50:7

The Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame;

Jeremiah 1:17

But you, gird up your loins; stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not break down before them, or I will break you before them.

Jeremiah 1:8

Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.”

Jeremiah 15:20

And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:18

Let my persecutors be shamed, but do not let me be shamed; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction!

Ezekiel 2:6

And you, O mortal, do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words, and do not be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 3:10

He said to me, “Mortal, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart and hear with your ears;

Ezekiel 3:8

See, I have made your face hard against their faces and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

Ezekiel 44:6

Say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: O house of Israel, let there be an end to all your abominations

Micah 3:8

But as for me, I am filled with power, with the spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

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.

1 Timothy 2:3

This is right and acceptable before God our Savior,

2 Timothy 2:6

It is the farmer who does the work who ought to have the first share of the crops.