Ezekiel 3:2

Contemporary English Version

He handed me the scroll and said, "Eat this and fill up on it." So I ate the scroll, and it tasted sweet as honey.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.

Hebrew Names Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

King James Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

English Standard Version
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat.

New American Standard Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.

New Century Version
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

Amplified Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.

World English Bible
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So I opened my mouth, and he gaue mee this roule to eate.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.

Legacy Standard Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.

Berean Standard Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.

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

Darby Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

Easy-to-Read Version
So I opened my mouth and he put the scroll into my mouth.

George Lamsa Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that scroll.

Good News Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

Lexham English Bible
And I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat,

Literal Translation
So I opened my mouth, and He made me eat that roll.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So I opened my mouth, and he gaue me the boke for to eate,

American Standard Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.

Bible in Basic English
And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that roll.

King James Version (1611)
So I opened my mouth, and hee caused me to eate that roule.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So I opened my mouth, and he fed me with this roule.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So he opened my mouth, and caused me to eat the volume.

English Revised Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y openyde my mouth, and he fedde me with that volym.

Update Bible Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.

Webster's Bible Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

New English Translation
So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.

New King James Version
So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that scroll.

New Living Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.

New Life Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this book.

New Revised Standard
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So I opened my mouth, - and he caused me to eat this roll.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that book:

Revised Standard Version
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

Young's Literal Translation
And I open my mouth, and He causeth me to eat this roll.

THE MESSAGE
As I opened my mouth, he gave me the scroll to eat, saying, "Son of man, eat this book that I am giving you. Make a full meal of it!" So I ate it. It tasted so good—just like honey.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord said, "Ezekiel, son of man, after you eat this scroll, go speak to the people of Israel." ²He handed me the scroll and said, "Eat this and fill up on it." So I ate the scroll, and it tasted sweet as honey. ⁴ The Lord said: Ezekiel, I am sending you to your own people. ⁵They are Israelites, not some strangers who speak a foreign language you can't understand. If I were to send you to foreign nations, they would listen to you. ⁷ But the people of Israel will refuse to listen, because they have refused to listen to me. All of them are stubborn and hardheaded, ⁸ so I will make you as stubborn as they are. ⁹ You will be so determined to speak my message that nothing will stop you. I will make you hard like a diamond, and you'll have no reason to be afraid of those arrogant rebels. ¹⁰ Listen carefully to everything I say and then think about it. ¹¹ Then go to the people who were brought here to Babylonia with you and tell them you have a message from me, the Lord God. Do this, whether they listen to you or not. ¹² The Spirit lifted me up, and as the glory of the Lord started to leave, I heard a loud, thundering noise behind me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 25:17, Acts 26:19

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 11:4 - General

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
Your words spread poison like the bite of a cobra

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I opened my mouth,.... To take in the roll, and eat it; he was not disobedient to the heavenly vision; he did all that he could towards eating it, but was not sufficient of himself; and therefore it follows:

and he caused me to eat that roll; he, the Lord, put it into his mouth, caused him to eat it, and tilled him with it, according to his promise,

Psalms 81:10. The efficacy and sufficiency to think of good things, to meditate upon them, receive and digest them, are of God; it is he that makes men prophets, and able ministers. The Targum is,

"and I inclined my soul, and he taught me (or made me wise "with") what was written in this roll.''