Ezekiel 3:7

⁵ For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—

⁶ not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.

⁸ Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

⁹ I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
KJV: But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
WEB: But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.
ASV: But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.
DARBY: But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for none of them will hearken unto me. For all the house of Israel are hard of forehead and stiff of heart.
BLB: And the house of Israel are not willing to listen to you, because they are not willing to listen to Me! For all the house of Israel, they [are] strong of forehead and hard of heart.

ÅB: Men Israels hus skal ikke ville høre på deg, for det vil ikke høre på meg; for hele Israels hus har hårde panner og forherdede hjerter.
OTB: Men Israels hus vil ikke være villige til å lytte til deg, for de er ikke villige til å lytte til Meg; alle israelittene er sta og gjenstridige.
B1930: Men Israels hus skal ikke ville høre på dig, for det vil ikke høre på mig; for hele Israels hus har hårde panner og forherdede hjerter.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
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1 Samuel 8:7
And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
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John 15:20–24
Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
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Ezekiel 2:4
They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’
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Jeremiah 44:16
“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
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Jeremiah 25:3–4
“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
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Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
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Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
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