⁶ Say to rebellious Israel,^(A) ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Enough of your detestable practices, people of Israel!

³ For you have spent enough time in the past^(A) doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.^(B)

⁹ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression^(A) and do what is just and right.^(B) Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.

⁹ I will make your forehead^(A) like the hardest stone, harder than flint.^(B) Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.^(C)”

²⁶ I will make your tongue stick to the roof^(A) of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious people.^{(B) 27} But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’^(C) Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse; for they are a rebellious people.^(D)

⁵ And whether they listen or fail to listen^(A)—for they are a rebellious people^(B)—they will know that a prophet has been among them.^{(C) 6} And you, son of man, do not be afraid^(D) of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns^(E) are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.^{(F) 7} You must speak^(G) my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious.^{(H) 8} But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel^(I) like that rebellious people;^(J) open your mouth and eat^(K) what I give you.”