Ezekiel 3
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Lutheran reading notes
In Ezekiel chapter 3, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of divine judgment, prophetic visions, and restoration of Israel. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 3:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
Ezekiel 3:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat {it}; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
Ezekiel 3:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
Ezekiel 3:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For thou {art} not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, {but} to the house of Israel; {of a...: Heb. deep of lip, and heavy of tongue}
Ezekiel 3:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. {of a...: Heb. deep of lip, and heavy of language} {Surely...: or, If I had sent thee, etc. would they not have hearkened unto thee?}
Ezekiel 3:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel {are} impudent and hardhearted. {impudent...: Heb. stiff of forehead, and hard of heart}
Ezekiel 3:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
Ezekiel 3:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Ezekiel 3:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
Ezekiel 3:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
Ezekiel 3:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, {saying}, Blessed {be} the glory of the LORD from his place.
Ezekiel 3:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{I heard} also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing. {touched: Heb. kissed}
Ezekiel 3:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. {in bitterness: Heb. bitter} {heat: Heb. hot anger}
Ezekiel 3:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
Ezekiel 3:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 3:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
Ezekiel 3:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked {man} shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 3:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 3:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Again, When a righteous {man} doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. {righteousness which: Heb. righteousnesses}
Ezekiel 3:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous {man}, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 3:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
Ezekiel 3:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
Ezekiel 3:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
Ezekiel 3:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
Ezekiel 3:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they {are} a rebellious house. {a reprover: Heb. a man reproving}
Ezekiel 3:26 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Ezekiel 3:27 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.