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Ezekiel 3:6

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

World English Bible

not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

American Standard Version

not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken unto thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

Not to many people of an vnknowen tongue, or of an harde language, whose wordes thou canst not vnderstand: yet if I should sende thee to them, they would obey thee.

Darby Translation

not to many peoples of strange language and of difficult speech, whose words thou canst not understand: had I sent thee to them, would they not hearken unto thee?

Young's Literal Translation

not unto many peoples, deep of lip and heavy of tongue, whose words thou dost not understand. If I had not sent thee unto them — they, they do hearken unto thee,

Bible in Basic English

Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.

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Cross references

“Surely, etc.”

Jonah 3:5–10 Matthew 11:20–24 Luke 11:30–32 Romans 9:30–33 Acts 27:28 Matthew 12:41

Jonah 3:5–10 · BSB

And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

Matthew 11:20–24 · BSB

Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.

Luke 11:30–32 · BSB

For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

Romans 9:30–33 · BSB

What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

Acts 27:28 · BSB

They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.

Matthew 12:41 · BSB

The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.

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

In context

5For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—

7But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.

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