Ezekiel 3:5
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For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
In other translations
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Jonah 1:2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
- Isaiah 33:19Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
- Isaiah 28:11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
- Acts 26:17-1817 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, 18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them 18 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.’
- Jonah 3:2-42 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.” 3 This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey. 4 On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
- Psalm 81:5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:
- Ezekiel 3:6Not 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.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.
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People and places
People: Jacob