Ezekiel 12:2

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Ezekiel 12:2

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Summary

Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

Thou

Which

For

Ezekiel 2:5

General references

Isaiah 43:8

Matthew 13:13

Bible References

Thou

He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to the rebellious pagans who have rebelled against Me. The Israelites and their ancestors have transgressed against Me to this day.

I have made your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them or discouraged by the look on their faces, even though they are a rebellious house.”

“Now say to that rebellious house: Don’t you know what these things mean? Tell them: The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.

Now speak a parable to the rebellious house. Tell them: This is what the Lord God says:

Put the pot on the fire—
put it on,
and then pour water into it!

“Say to the rebellious people, the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: I have had enough of all your detestable practices, house of Israel.

“Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness. You have been rebelling against the Lord from the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place.

For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are rebelling against the Lord now, while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after I am dead!

How often they rebelled against Him
in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert.

Your rulers are rebels,
friends of thieves.
They all love graft
and chase after bribes.
They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,
and the widow’s case never comes before them.

Woe to the rebellious children!
This is the Lord’s declaration.
They carry out a plan, but not Mine;
they make an alliance,
but against My will,
piling sin on top of sin.

I spread out My hands all day long
to a rebellious people
who walk in the wrong path,
following their own thoughts.

They have her surrounded
like those who guard a field,
because she has rebelled against Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts.
They have turned aside and have gone away.

If my head were a spring of water,

my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night
over the slain of my dear people.

we have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled, and turned away from Your commands and ordinances.

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

Which

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

And He replied:

Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.

Stop and be astonished;
blind yourselves and be blind!
They are drunk, but not with wine;
they stagger, but not with beer.

Who is blind but My servant,
or deaf like My messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like My dedicated one,
or blind like the servant of the Lord?

Hear this,
you foolish and senseless people.
They have eyes, but they don’t see.
They have ears, but they don’t hear.

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.

so that

they may look and look,
yet not perceive;
they may listen and listen,
yet not understand;

otherwise, they might turn back—
and be forgiven.”

Aware of this, He said to them, “Why are you discussing that you do not have any bread? Don’t you understand or comprehend? Is your heart hardened?

So He said, “The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that

Looking they may not see,
and hearing they may not understand.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”

He has blinded

their eyes

and hardened their hearts,

so that they would not see with their eyes
or understand with their hearts,
and be converted,

and I would heal them.

when He said,

Go to these people and say:
You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.

What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for, but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,

but their minds were closed.

For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ.

But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.

For

Whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

General references

Bring out a people who are blind, yet have eyes,
and are deaf, yet have ears.

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.