Ezekiel 3:5 “For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficu…”

Ezekiel 3:5

For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

World English Bible

For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel—

American Standard Version

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

Geneva Bible 1599

For thou art not sent to a people of an vnknowen tongue, or of an hard language, but to the house of Israel,

Darby Translation

For thou art not sent to a people of strange language, and of difficult speech, [but] to the house of Israel;

Young's Literal Translation

For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue [art] thou sent — unto the house of Israel;

Bible in Basic English

For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;

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Cross references

“thou”

Jonah 1:2 Jonah 3:2–4 Acts 26:17 Acts 26:18

Jonah 1:2 · BSB

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”

Jonah 3:2–4 · BSB

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”

Acts 26:17 · BSB

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

Acts 26:18 · BSB

to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

“of a strange speech and of an hard language”

Isaiah 33:19 Ezekiel 3:6 Psalm 81:5

Isaiah 33:19 · BSB

You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

Ezekiel 3:6 · BSB

not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

Psalm 81:5 · BSB

He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:

Also

Isaiah 28:11

Isaiah 28:11 · BSB

Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Then He said to me, “Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them.

6not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

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