Ezekiel 3:3
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“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
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Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.