English Standard Version
Ezekiel 3:8
8Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
Ezekiel 3:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
- New International Version (NIV)But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
- New Living Translation (NLT)But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are.
Context of Ezekiel 3:8
6not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you. 7But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 9Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house." 10Moreover, 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.
Read all of Ezekiel 3Ezekiel 3:8 word by word
הִנֵּ֨ה נָתַ֧תִּי אֶת־פָּנֶ֛יךָ חֲזָקִ֖ים לְעֻמַּ֣ת פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם וְאֶֽת־מִצְחֲךָ֥ חָזָ֖ק לְעֻמַּ֥ת מִצְחָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 3:8
- Exodus 4:15You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.
- Exodus 11:4So Moses said, "Thus says the Lord: 'About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt,
- 1 Kings 21:20Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.
- Isaiah 50:7But the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
- Jeremiah 1:18And I, behold, I make you this day 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.
- Jeremiah 15:20And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares the Lord.
- Micah 3:8But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
- Acts 7:51"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
- Hebrews 11:27By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 3:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8I have made thy forehead strong - I have given thee a strength superior to theirs; a metaphor taken from horned animals.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-9God would make Ezekiel as persistent in delivering his message as the people were in rejecting it.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Ezekiel means one "strengthened by God." Such he was in godly firmness, in spite of his people's opposition, according to the divine command to the priest tribe to which he belonged (De 33:9).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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