2:1  So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking. And He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.”

2:2  Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard Him who spoke to me.

2:3  And He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day.

2:4  For they are impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’

2:5  As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse—for they are a rebellious house—yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.

2:6  “And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

2:7  You shall speak My words to them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious.

2:8  But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”

2:9  Now when I looked, there was a hand stretched out to me; and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.

2:10  Then He spread it before me; and there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.