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Bible in Basic English
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.
New American Standard Bible
I am sending you to them who are
King James Version
For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
Holman Bible
The children are obstinate
International Standard Version
They're stubborn and strong willed. I'm sending you to them to tell them what the LORD says.
A Conservative Version
And the sons are impudent and stiff hearted. I send thee to them, and thou shall say to them, Thus says lord LORD.
American Standard Version
And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do sent thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.
Amplified
I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord
Darby Translation
and these children are impudent and hard-hearted: I am sending thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
And the sons hard of face and strong of heart. I send thee to them; and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah.
King James 2000
For they are impudent children and stubborn. I do send you unto them; and you shall say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the children [are] {impudent} and {stubborn}, [and so] I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh!'
Modern King James verseion
And the sons are stiff of face, and hard of heart. I am sending you to them; and you shall say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, I will send thee unto a people that have rough visages and stiff stomachs: unto whom thou shalt say on this manner, 'This the LORD God himself hath spoken,'
NET Bible
The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, and you must say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says.'
New Heart English Bible
The children are obstinate and hardhearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'
The Emphasized Bible
and it is unto such sons - of shameless face, and emboldened heart, that I am sending thee, - therefore shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh.
Webster
For they are impudent children and obstinate in heart. I send thee to them; and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
World English Bible
The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the sons are brazen-faced and hard-hearted to whom I am sending thee, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Themes
Character » Of the wicked » Stiff-hearted
Character » Of the wicked » Impudent
Character of the wicked » Stiff-hearted
Character of the wicked » Impudent
Heart » The unregenerate » Is hard
character of the unrenewed Heart » Stiff
Rebellion against God » Ministers » Sent to those guilty of
Reproof » Ministers should give » Fearlessly
Topics
Interlinear
Qasheh
Shalach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 2:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Call Of Ezekiel To Speak God's Words
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.
Names
Cross References
Ezekiel 3:7
But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.
Psalm 95:8
Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
Isaiah 48:4
Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
Jeremiah 6:15
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.
Deuteronomy 10:16
Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.
Deuteronomy 31:27
For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?
1 Kings 22:14
And Micaiah said, By the living Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.
2 Chronicles 36:13
And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.
Proverbs 21:29
The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.
Jeremiah 3:3
So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.
Jeremiah 8:12
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 26:2-3
This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;
Matthew 10:16
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
Acts 20:26-27
And so I say to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men.