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.