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Updated Bible Version

Ezekiel 3:8

Look, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Impenitence;   Minister, Christian;   Thompson Chain Reference - Leaders;   Ministers;   Religious;   Responsibility;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;   Rebellion against God;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Flint;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Forehead;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezekiel;   Forehead;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Individual;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Forehead;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Roll;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Forehead;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezekiel;   God;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
Hebrew Names Version
Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
King James Version
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
English Standard Version
Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
New American Standard Bible
"Behold, I have made your face just as hard as their faces, and your forehead just as hard as their foreheads.
New Century Version
See, I now make you as stubborn and as hard as they are.
Amplified Bible
"Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
World English Bible
Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Beholde, I haue made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead harde against their foreheads.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, I have made your face as strong as their faces and your forehead as strong as their foreheads.
Berean Standard Bible
Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
Contemporary English Version
so I will make you as stubborn as they are.
Complete Jewish Bible
However, I am making you as defiant and obstinate as they are.
Darby Translation
Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
Easy-to-Read Version
But I will make you just as stubborn as they are, and your head just as hard.
George Lamsa Translation
Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
Good News Translation
Now I will make you as stubborn and as tough as they are.
Lexham English Bible
But look, I have made your face hard against their faces and your forehead hard against their forehead.
Literal Translation
Behold, I have made your face strong over against their faces, and your forehead strong over against their foreheads.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde therfore, I will make thy face preuayle agaynst their faces, and harden thy foreheade agaynst their foreheades:
American Standard Version
Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
Bible in Basic English
See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
King James Version (1611)
Behold, I haue made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde therefore, I haue made thy face strong against their faces, & thy forehead strong against their foreheades.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And, behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen thy power against their power.
English Revised Version
Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lo! Y yaf thi face strongere than the faces of hem, and thi forheed hardere than the forheedis of hem.
Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
New English Translation
"I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.
New King James Version
Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
New Living Translation
But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are.
New Life Bible
See, I have made you as strong-willed and as hard as they are.
New Revised Standard
See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! I have made thy face bold like as their faces, and thy forehead bold like as their forehead.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.
Revised Standard Version
Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
Young's Literal Translation
`Lo, I have made thy face strong against their face, and thy forehead strong against their forehead.

Contextual Overview

1 And he said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this roll, and go, speak to the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll. 3 And he said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your insides with this roll that I give you. Then I ate it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. 4 And he said to me, Son of man, go, get to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them. 5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; 6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can't understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you. 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart. 8 Look, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint I have made your forehead: don't fear them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. 10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 4:15, Exodus 4:16, Exodus 11:4-8, 1 Kings 21:20, Isaiah 50:7, Jeremiah 1:18, Jeremiah 15:20, Micah 3:8, Acts 7:51-56, Hebrews 11:27, Hebrews 11:32-37

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:18 - I have not Jeremiah 1:8 - not afraid Jeremiah 6:27 - General Ezekiel 2:6 - be not

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had made. And he said to the woman, has God really said, You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said to the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:
Genesis 3:3
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, or else you will die.
Genesis 3:9
And Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, Where are you?
Genesis 3:10
And he said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.
Genesis 3:21
And Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:22
And Yahweh God said, Look, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, so that he doesn't put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever-
Deuteronomy 4:33
Did ever a people hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Deuteronomy 5:25
Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God anymore, then we shall die.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, I have made the, face strong against their faces,.... Not that the prophet should have the same sort of impudence and confidence they had; but that God would "give" n him such a face, as it is in the Hebrew text, such spirit and courage, that he should neither be ashamed of the words of the Lord, nor afraid to speak them to this people; so that he should be a match for them; they should not be able to outface him, or look him out of countenance; he should behave with an undaunted spirit, and with great intrepidity, amidst all opposition made to him: the Lord fits his ministers for the people he sends them to, and gives them courage and strength proportionate to the opposition they meet with; as their day is, their strength is; and all that invincible courage, boldness, and strength, with which they are endowed, it is all from the Lord, and a gift of his:

and thy forehead strong against their foreheads; which is the same thing in different words.

n נתתי את פניך "dedi faciem tuam", V. L. Vatablus, Cocceius, Starckius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have made ... thy forehead strong - I have given thee a strength superior to theirs; a metaphor taken from horned animals.


 
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