Ezekiel 2:9 Cross References

Ezekiel 2:9

9: Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and it held a scroll.

He put out what seemed to be a hand and took me by the hair. Then the Spirit lifted me up into the sky and transported me in a vision of God to Jerusalem. I was taken to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the Temple, where there is a large idol that has made the LORD very angry.

Just then a hand touched me and lifted me, still trembling, to my hands and knees.

Then the voice from heaven called to me again: "Go and take the unrolled scroll from the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."
So I approached him and asked him to give me the little scroll. "Yes, take it and eat it," he said. "At first it will taste like honey, but when you swallow it, it will make your stomach sour!"
So I took the little scroll from the hands of the angel, and I ate it! It was sweet in my mouth, but it made my stomach sour.
Then he said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."

The voice said to me, "Son of man, eat what I am giving you--eat this scroll! Then go and give its message to the people of Israel."

And I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one who was sitting on the throne. There was writing on the inside and the outside of the scroll, and it was sealed with seven seals.
And I saw a strong angel, who shouted with a loud voice: "Who is worthy to break the seals on this scroll and unroll it?"
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll and read it.
Then I wept because no one could be found who was worthy to open the scroll and read it.
But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, "Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David's throne, has conquered. He is worthy to open the scroll and break its seven seals."

At that very moment they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king's palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,

Then I said, 'Look, I have come to do your will, O God--just as it is written about me in the Scriptures.'"

"Get a scroll, and write down all my messages against Israel, Judah, and the other nations. Begin with the first message back in the days of Josiah, and write down every message you have given, right up to the present time.

Then the one who looked like a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing in front of me, "I am terrified by the vision I have seen, my lord, and I am very weak.
How can someone like me, your servant, talk to you, my lord? My strength is gone, and I can hardly breathe."
Then the one who looked like a man touched me again, and I felt my strength returning.

Then the LORD touched my mouth and said, "See, I have put my words in your mouth!

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