Ezequiel 3

1Y me dijo: “Hijo de hombre, come lo que tienes delante; come, come este rollo; y anda luego y habla a la casa de Israel.”

2Abrí mi boca, y me dio de comer aquel rollo.

3Y me dijo: “Hijo de hombre, con este rollo que te doy, alimentarás tu vientre y llenarás tus entrañas.” Y yo lo comí, y era en mi boca dulce como miel.

4Y me dijo: “Hijo de hombre, anda, dirígete a la casa de Israel, y anúnciales mis palabras.

5Porque no eres enviado a un pueblo de habla incomprensible y lengua difícil, sino a la casa de Israel,

6ni mucho menos a numerosos pueblos de habla incomprensible y lengua difícil, cuyas palabras no puedas entender. Si a tales te enviara, ellos te escucharían.

7Mas la casa de Israel no querrá escucharte, porque no quieren escucharme a Mí, pues toda la casa de Israel tiene frente obstinada y corazón endurecido.

8He aquí que hago tu rostro duro contra los rostros de ellos, y tu frente dura contra sus frentes.

9Hago tu frente como el diamante, más dura que el pedernal; no los temas, ni tengas miedo de sus rostros, pues son una casa rebelde.”

10Y me dijo: “Hijo de hombre, recibe en tu corazón todas mis palabras que voy a decirte y escúchalas con tus oídos.

11Anda y preséntate a los deportados, a los hijos de tu pueblo, y háblales en estos términos: Así dice Yahvé, el Señor, te oigan o no te oigan.”

12Y me levantó el espíritu; y oí detrás de mí un fragor muy fuerte al levantarse la gloria de Yahvé desde su sitio;

13y también el ruido de las alas de los seres vivientes, de las cuales la una batía contra la otra, y el ruido de las ruedas junto a ellos, y un estruendo muy fuerte.

14Entonces el Espíritu me alzó y me arrebató; iba yo con amargura e indignación en el alma, porque la mano de Yahvé pesaba gravemente sobre mí.

15Llegué a los cautivos de Tel-Abib, que allí habitaban junto al río Cobar; y donde ellos habitaban, allí me quedé por siete días atónito en medio de ellos.

16Al cabo de los siete días recibí de Yahvé esta palabra:

17“Hijo de hombre, Yo te pongo por atalaya de la casa de Israel; oirás de mi boca la palabra y les amonestarás de mi parte.

18Si Yo digo al impío: “De seguro morirás”, y tú no le previnieres ni hablares para amonestar al impío (que se aparte) de su perverso camino y viva, ese impío morirá en su iniquidad; mas Yo demandaré de tu mano su sangre.

19Pero si tú amonestares al impío y este no se convirtiere de su maldad y su perverso camino, él morirá en su iniquidad, mas tú habrás salvado tu alma.

20Y cuando un justo se apartare de su justicia cometiendo iniquidad, y Yo le pusiere un tropiezo delante y él muriere porque tú no le amonestaste, en su pecado morirá, y no serán recordadas sus obras buenas que hizo, y Yo demandaré su sangre de tu mano.

21Pero si tú amonestares al justo, para que no peque, y el justo en efecto no pecare más, de seguro vivirá porque se dejó amonestar, y tú habrás salvado tu alma.”

22Allí vino sobre mí la mano de Yahvé, y me dijo: “Levántate y sal a la llanura, y allí hablaré contigo.”

23Me levanté y salí a la llanura; y allí vi la gloria de Yahvé al modo de la gloria que había visto junto al río Cobar; y caí sobre mi rostro.

24Y me invadió el Espíritu, y me puso en pie y habló conmigo, diciéndome: “Ve y enciérrate dentro de tu casa.

25Y tú, oh hijo de hombre, verás que echarán cuerdas sobre ti y con ellas te atarán, y ya no podrás salir a ellos.

26Haré también que la lengua se te pegue al paladar, de suerte que quedes mudo y no seas ya para ellos un censor; pues son una casa rebelde.

27Pero al hablar Yo contigo, te abriré la boca, y les dirás: Así dice Yahvé el Señor: El que quiera oír, que oiga; y el que no quiera oír, no oiga; pues son una casa rebelde.”

1Et dixit ad me: Fili hominis, quodcumque inveneris, comede: comede volumen istud, et vadens loquere ad filios Israël.

2Et aperui os meum, et cibavit me volumine illo:

3et dixit ad me: Fili hominis, venter tuus comedet, et viscera tua complebuntur volumine isto quod ego do tibi. Et comedi illud, et factum est in ore meo sicut mel dulce.

4Et dixit ad me: Fili hominis, vade ad domum Israël, et loqueris verba mea ad eos.

5Non enim ad populum profundi sermonis et ignotæ linguæ tu mitteris ad domum Israël:

6neque ad populos multos profundi sermonis et ignotæ linguæ, quorum non possis audire sermones: et si ad illos mittereris, ipsi audirent te:

7domus autem Israël nolunt audire te, quia nolunt audire me: omnis quippe domus Israël attrita fronte est, et duro corde.

8Ecce dedi faciem tuam valentiorem faciebus eorum, et frontem tuam duriorem frontibus eorum:

9ut adamantem et ut silicem dedi faciem tuam: ne timeas eos, neque metuas a facie eorum, quia domus exasperans est.

10Et dixit ad me: Fili hominis, omnes sermones meos quos ego loquor ad te, assume in corde tuo, et auribus tuis audi:

11et vade, ingredere ad transmigrationem, ad filios populi tui, et loqueris ad eos: et dices eis: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: si forte audiant et quiescant.

12Et assumpsit me spiritus, et audivi post me vocem commotionis magnæ: Benedicta gloria Domini de loco suo:

13et vocem alarum animalium percutientium alteram ad alteram, et vocem rotarum sequentium animalia, et vocem commotionis magnæ.

14Spiritus quoque levavit me, et assumpsit me: et abii amarus in indignatione spiritus mei: manus enim Domini erat mecum, confortans me.

15Et veni ad transmigrationem, ad acervum novarum frugum, ad eos qui habitabant juxta flumen Chobar: et sedi ubi illi sedebant, et mansi ibi septem diebus mœrens in medio eorum.

16Cum autem pertransissent septem dies, factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens:

17Fili hominis, speculatorem dedi te domui Israël, et audies de ore meo verbum, et annuntiabis eis ex me.

18Si, dicente me ad impium: Morte morieris, non annuntiaveris ei, neque locutus fueris ut avertatur a via sua impia et vivat, ipse impius in iniquitate sua morietur, sanguinem autem ejus de manu tua requiram.

19Si autem tu annuntiaveris impio, et ille non fuerit conversus ab impietate sua et a via sua impia, ipse quidem in iniquitate sua morietur: tu autem animam tuam liberasti.

20Sed et si conversus justus a justitia sua fuerit, et fecerit iniquitatem, ponam offendiculum coram eo: ipse morietur quia non annuntiasti ei. In peccato suo morietur, et non erunt in memoria justitiæ ejus quas fecit: sanguinem vero ejus de manu tua requiram.

21Si autem tu annuntiaveris justo ut non peccet justus, et ille non peccaverit, vivens vivet, quia annuntiasti ei, et tu animam tuam liberasti.

22Et facta est super me manus Domini, et dixit ad me: Surgens egredere in campum, et ibi loquar tecum.

23Et surgens egressus sum in campum: et ecce ibi gloria Domini stabat, quasi gloria quam vidi juxta fluvium Chobar: et cecidi in faciem meam.

24Et ingressus est in me spiritus, et statuit me super pedes meos, et locutus est mihi, et dixit ad me: Ingredere, et includere in medio domus tuæ.

25Et tu, fili hominis, ecce data sunt super te vincula, et ligabunt te in eis, et non egredieris de medio eorum.

26Et linguam tuam adhærere faciam palato tuo, et eris mutus, nec quasi vir objurgans, quia domus exasperans est.

27Cum autem locutus fuero tibi, aperiam os tuum, et dices ad eos: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Qui audit, audiat, et qui quiescit, quiescat: quia domus exasperans est.

1And he said to me: Son of man, eat all that thou shalt find: eat this book, and go speak to the children of Israel.

2And I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that book:

3And he said to me: Son of man, thy belly shall eat, and thy bowels shall be filled with this book, which I give thee. And I did eat it: and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

4And he said to me: Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and thou shalt speak my words to them.

5For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:

6Nor to many nations of a strange speech, and of an unknown tongue, whose words thou canst not understand: and if thou wert sent to them, they would hearken to thee.

7But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and an obstinate heart.

8Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.

9I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint: fear them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for they are a provoking house.

10And he said to me: Son of man, receive in thy heart, and hear with thy ears, all the words that I speak to thee:

11And go get thee in to them of the captivity, to the children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them, and shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If so be they will hear and will forbear.

12And the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory of the Lord, from his place.

13And the noise of the wings of the living creatures striking one against another, and the noise of the wheels following the living creatures, and the noise of a great commotion.

14The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me.

15And I came to them of the captivity, to the heap of new corn, to them that dwelt by the river Chobar, and I sat where they sat: and I remained there seven days mourning in the midst of them.

16And at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

17Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.

18If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.

19But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.

20Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand.

21But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.

22And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to me: Rise and go forth into the plain, and there I will speak to thee.

23And I rose up, and went forth into the plain: and behold the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.

24And the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet: and he spoke to me, and said to me: Go in; and shut thyself up in the midst of thy house.

25And thou, O son of man, behold they shall put bands upon thee, and they shall bind thee with them: and thou shalt not go forth from the midst of them.

26And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth: because they are a provoking house.

27But when I shall speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: He that heareth, let him hear: and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a provoking house.