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Ezekiel 3:8

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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.

7 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.

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.”

10 “Son of man,” He added, “listen carefully to all the words I speak to you, and take them to heart.

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BSB
Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
KJV
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
WEB
Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
ASV
Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
DARBY
Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
BLB
Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
ÅB
Se, jeg gjør ditt åsyn hårdt mot deres åsyn og din panne hård mot deres panne.
OTB
Se, jeg har gjort ditt ansikt like hardt som deres, og din panne like hard som deres.
B1930
Se, jeg gjør ditt åsyn hårdt mot deres åsyn og din panne hård mot deres panne.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 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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  • Acts 7:51–56

    You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

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  • 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.

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  • Hebrews 11:27

    By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.

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  • Exodus 11:4–8

    So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,

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  • 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.

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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,

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  • 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.

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