God

Remember, ADONAI, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.

You, ADONAI, reign forever; your throne endures through all generations.

Why do you never remember us? Why abandon us for so long a time?

ADONAI, turn us back to you; and we will come back; renew our days, as they were in the past -

unless you have totally rejected us in a fury that knows no limits. [ADONAI, turn us back to you; and we will come back; renew our days, as they were in the past.]

In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the K'var River, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

the word of ADONAI came to the cohen Yechezk'el son of Buzi, in the land of the Kasdim by the K'var River; there the hand of ADONAI was on him.

I heard the sound of their wings when they moved; it was like the sound of rushing water, like the voice of Shaddai, like the noise of a tumultuous crowd or army. When they stopped, they lowered their wings.

This brilliance around him looked like a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was how the appearance of the glory of ADONAI looked. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of someone speaking.

He said to me, "Human being! Stand up! I want to speak with you!"

As he spoke to me, a spirit entered me and put me on my feet, and I heard him who was speaking to me.

He said, "Human being! I am sending you to the people of Isra'el, that nation of rebels who have rebelled against me - they and their ancestors have been transgressing against me to this very day.

Because they are defiant, hardhearted children, I am sending you; and you are to tell them, 'Here is what Adonai ELOHIM says.'

You are to speak my words to them, whether they listen or not, for they are very rebellious.

But you, human being, hear what I am telling you: don't you be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat what I am about to give you."

He spread it out in front of me, and it was covered with writing front and back. Written on it were laments, dirges and woes.

He said to me, "Human being, eat what you see in front of you; eat this scroll. Then go and speak to the house of Isra'el."

So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat,

as he said, "Human being, eat this scroll I am giving you; fill your insides with it." When I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey.

"Human being," he said to me, "go to the house of Isra'el, and speak my words to them.

not to many peoples with difficult languages and unintelligible speech, whose words you can't understand when you hear them. Without doubt, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

But the house of Isra'el will not be willing to listen to you, because they aren't willing to listen to me; since all the house of Isra'el are obstinate and hardhearted.

However, I am making you as defiant and obstinate as they are.

Yes, I am making your resoluteness harder than flint, as hard as a diamond. So don't be afraid of them or depressed by how they look at you, because they are a rebellious house."

Then he said to me, "Human being, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.