Bible verse

Ezekiel 3:5

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

Ezekiel 3:5 · BSB

Ezekiel 3:5 in context

The verses around it, from Ezekiel 3.

1 “Son of man,” He said to me, “eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

2 So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.

3 “Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

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

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

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.

7 But 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.

8 Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

9 I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”

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Ezekiel 3:5 in other translations

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;

ERV

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

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