9. I have made your forehead as hard as the hardest rock! So don’t be afraid of them or fear their angry looks, even though they are rebels.”
10. Then he added, “Son of man, let all my words sink deep into your own heart first. Listen to them carefully for yourself.
11. Then go to your people in exile and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign lord says!’ Do this whether they listen to you or not.”
12. Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a loud rumbling sound behind me. (May the glory of the lord be praised in his place!)
13. It was the sound of the wings of the living beings as they brushed against each other and the rumbling of their wheels beneath them.