Ezekiel 3:8

Translations

Modern

Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

Traditional

Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

Literal

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

Latin

Ecce dedi faciem tuam valentiorem faciebus eorum, et frontem tuam duriorem frontibus eorum:

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English

Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

Notes

Ezekiel 3:8–9

God would make Ezekiel as persistent in delivering his message as the people were in rejecting it.

Ezekiel 1:1–3:27

Old Testament prophetic books often begin with a “call narrative.” A call narrative describes how God chose and sent a prophet to serve in this role (for example, Jeremiah 1:4–19).

This account showed that the prophet’s message was legitimate. It made clear that the prophet spoke as the Lord’s ambassador (a representative sent with authority). The call narrative also introduced important themes that the book would explain more fully later.

In Ezekiel, the call narrative focuses on the Lord’s coming judgment on his people.

Theme notes and profiles

Prophetic Sign Acts

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Prophecies of Ezekielc. 593 BC

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Jeremiah 1:18
Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
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Exodus 11:4–8
So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
Hebrews 11:27
By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.
1 Kings 21:20
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Hebrews 11:32–37
And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,
Exodus 4:15–16
You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.
Isaiah 50:7
Because the Lord GOD helps Me, I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.
Micah 3:8
As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
Jeremiah 15:20
Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.

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