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New Century Version

Ezekiel 3:2

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Impenitence;   Thompson Chain Reference - Leaders;   Ministers;   Religious;   Responsibility;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Preaching;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Book;   Roll;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Book;   Water of Jealousy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel;   Repentance;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Book;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Roll;  

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.
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.
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 Then the Lord said to me, "Human, eat what you find; eat this scroll. Then go and speak to the people of Israel." 2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat. 3 He said to me, "Human, eat this scroll which I am giving you, and fill your stomach with it." Then I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. 4 Then he said to me, "Human, go to the people of Israel, and speak my words to them. 5 You are not being sent to people whose speech you can't understand, whose language is difficult. You are being sent to Israel. 6 You are not being sent to many nations whose speech you can't understand, whose language is difficult, whose words you cannot understand. If I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. 7 But the people of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, because they are not willing to listen to me. Yes, all the people of Israel are stubborn and will not obey. 8 See, I now make you as stubborn and as hard as they are. 9 I am making you as hard as a diamond, harder than stone. Don't be afraid of them or be frightened by them, though they are a people who turn against me." 10 Also, he said to me, "Human, believe all the words I will speak to you, and listen carefully to them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 25:17, Acts 26:19

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 11:4 - General

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
They are like poisonous snakes, like deaf cobras that stop up their ears

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.''


 
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