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He said to me: O mortal, 1 stand up on your feet, and I will speak with you.
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And when he spoke to me, a spirit entered into me and set me on my feet; and I heard him speaking to me.
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He said to me, Mortal, I am sending you to the people of Israel, to a nation 2 of rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this very day.
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The descendants are impudent and stubborn. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, "Thus says the Lord
8 But you, mortal, hear what I say to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you. 9 I looked, and a hand was stretched out to me, and a written scroll was in it. 10 He spread it before me; it had writing on the front and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.