Ezekiel 2:4

For they are impudent children, with hard faces, devoid of all shame, and stiff-hearted, without the slightest inclination toward repentance. I do send thee unto them, in spite of this condition of their understanding and of their heart; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Jehovah, the God of the covenant, who here delegated and commissioned Ezekiel to be His personal representative, giving him the very words of the message to the rebellious people.