Ezekiel 3:5 Parallel Translations

I am not sending you to people whose language is hard to understand or difficult to speak. I am sending you to Israel.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

For thou art not sent to a people of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, but to the house of Israel;

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Ezekiel 3:5 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 28:11 Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

Isaiah 33:19 You will no longer see a fierce people, A people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends, Of a stammering tongue which no one understands.

Jonah 1:2 "Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me."

Acts 14:11 When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voice, saying in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have become like men and have come down to us."

Acts 26:17 rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

3:1-11 Ezekiel was to receive the truths of God as the food for his soul, and to feed upon them by faith, and he would be strengthened. Gracious souls can receive those truths of God with delight, which speak terror to the wicked. He must speak all that, and that only, which God spake to him. How can we better speak God's mind than with his words? If disappointed as to his people, he must not be offended. The Ninevites were wrought upon by Jonah's preaching, when Israel was unhumbled and unreformed. We must leave this unto the Divine sovereignty, and say, Lord, thy judgments are a great deep. They will not regard the word of the prophet, for they will not regard the rod of God. Christ promises to strengthen him. He must continue earnest in preaching, whatever the success might be.

CONC:

Deep Difficult Foreign Heavy Language Lip Slow Speech Strange Talk Tongue Unintelligible

Children Deep Difficult Foreign Hard Heavy House Israel Language Obscure Slow Speech Strange Talk Tongue Unintelligible

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