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26 And I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute,[a] no longer one who rebukes them for being a rebellious house.(A) 27 Only when I speak to you and open your mouth, shall you say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Let those who hear, hear! Let those who resist, resist! They are truly a rebellious house.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:26–27 Mute: here the prophet’s inability to speak to the people in exile while Jerusalem was being besieged is seen as a consequence of God’s direct intervention (cf. 24:27).

26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof(A) of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious people.(B) 27 But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’(C) Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse; for they are a rebellious people.(D)

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