“Son of man, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house. ¹  They have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear, but do not hear, ²  because they are a rebellious house.

The filthy, ¹  stained city is as good as dead; the city filled with oppressors is finished! ² 

You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.

As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”

For these are rebellious people – they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law. ¹ 

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone their own way. ¹ 

“Son of man, has not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’

You have been rebelling against him ¹  from the very first day I knew you!

for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. ¹  Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the Lord; you will be even more rebellious after my death! ² 

The sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; ¹  I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail, ¹ 

They must declare to the elders ¹  of his city, “Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say – he is a glutton and drunkard.”

Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God. ¹ 

(She is loud and rebellious, she ¹  does not remain ²  at home –

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove ¹  them, for they are a rebellious house.

And as for them, ¹  whether they listen ²  or not – for they are a rebellious ³  house ⁴  – they will know that a prophet has been among them.

I have made your forehead harder than flint – like diamond! ¹  Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, ²  for they are a rebellious house.”

Recite a proverb to this rebellious house ¹  and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Set on the pot, ²  set it on, pour water in it too;

Say to the rebellious, ¹  to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough of all your abominable practices, O house of Israel!

Many times he delivered ¹  them, but they had a rebellious attitude, ²  and degraded themselves ³  by their sin.