Then He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find—eat this scroll. Then go, speak to the house of Israel.”
Practice these things—be absorbed in them, so that your progress may be clear to all.
I came to the exiles at Tel-Abib who lived by the river Chebar. I sat where they were dwelling. I sat there overwhelmed among them for seven days.
He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to Bnei-Yisrael, to rebellious nations that have been rebelling against Me. They and their fathers have rebelled against Me to this very day.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I come to do Your will, O God (in the scroll of the book it is written of Me).’”