Ezekiel 3:5

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;of a…: Heb. deep of lip, and heavy of tongue

WEB

For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a 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;

LSV

For you [are] not sent to a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue—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;

DBY

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

DRC

For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:

GNV

For thou art not sent to a people of an vnknowen tongue, or 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;

LXXE

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

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֡י לֹא֩ אֶל־עַ֨ם עִמְקֵ֥י שָׂפָ֛ה וְכִבְדֵ֥י לָשׁ֖וֹן אַתָּ֣ה שָׁל֑וּחַ אֶל־בֵּ֖ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

LXX-Br

Διότι οὐ πρὸς λαὸν βαθύγλωσσον σὺ ἐξαποστέλλῃ πρὸς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Ἰσραήλ·

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Cross-references most cited first

• Jonah 1:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
• Isaiah 33:19You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
• Psalms 81:5He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:
• Acts 26:17–18I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them 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…
• Jonah 3:2–4“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.” This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,…
• Ezekiel 3:6not 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.
• Isaiah 28:11Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

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