1 Then he said to me: Human one, eat this thing that you’ve found. Eat this scroll and go, speak to the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.
3 He said to me: Human one, feed your belly and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you. So I ate it, and in my mouth it became as sweet as honey.
4 Then he said to me: Human one, go! Go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.
5 You aren’t being sent to a people whose language and speech are difficult and obscure but to the house of Israel.
6 No, not to many peoples who speak difficult and obscure languages, whose words you wouldn’t understand. If I did send you to them, they would listen to you.
7 But the house of Israel—they will refuse to listen to you because they refuse to listen to me. The whole house of Israel is hardheaded and hard-hearted too.