Ezekiel 3:2

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.

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.

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.

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.

Contextual Overview

¹ He told me, "Son of man, eat what you see. Eat this book. Then go and speak to the family of Israel." ²As 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. ⁴Then he told me, "Son of man, go to the family of Israel and speak my Message. Look, I'm not sending you to a people who speak a hard-to-learn language with words you can hardly pronounce. If I had sent you to such people, their ears would have perked up and they would have listened immediately. ⁷"But it won't work that way with the family of Israel. They won't listen to you because they won't listen to me. They are, as I said, a hard case, hardened in their sin. But I'll make you as hard in your way as they are in theirs. I'll make your face as hard as rock, harder than granite. Don't let them intimidate you. Don't be afraid of them, even though they're a bunch of rebels." ¹⁰Then he said, "Son of man, get all these words that I'm giving you inside you. Listen to them obediently. Make them your own. And now go. Go to the exiles, your people, and speak. Tell them, ‘This is the Message of God , the Master.' Speak your piece, whether they listen or not." ¹²Then the Spirit picked me up. Behind me I heard a great commotion—"Blessed be the Glory of God in his Sanctuary!"—the wings of the living creatures beating against each other, the whirling wheels, the rumble of a great earthquake. ¹⁴The Spirit lifted me and took me away. I went bitterly and angrily. I didn't want to go. But God had me in his grip. I arrived among the exiles who lived near the Kebar River at Tel Aviv. I came to where they were living and sat there for seven days, appalled.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 25:17, Acts 26:19

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 11:4 - General

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.''