Ezekiel 3:5
New International Version
You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language, but to the people of Israel—

New Living Translation
I am not sending you to a foreign people whose language you cannot understand.

English Standard Version
For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel—

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

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

New King James Version
For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the house of Israel,

New American Standard Bible
For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel,

NASB 1995
“For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel,

NASB 1977
“For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel,

Legacy Standard Bible
For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible lips or a difficult tongue, but to the house of Israel,

Amplified Bible
For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel,

Christian Standard Bible
For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or a difficult language but to the house of Israel —

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language but to the house of Israel.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because it was not to a people of difficult speaking and stammering tongue I sent you, but to those of the household of Israel

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

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

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

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

Good News Translation
I am not sending you to a nation that speaks a difficult foreign language, but to the Israelites.

International Standard Version
because you're not going to a people whose speech you cannot understand or whose language is difficult to speak. Instead, you're going to the house of Israel.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For thou art not sent to a people of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, but to the house of Israel;

Literal Standard Version
For you [are] not sent to a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue—to the house of Israel;

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

New American Bible
Not to a people with obscure speech and difficult language am I sending you, but to the house of Israel.

NET Bible
For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel--

New Revised Standard Version
For you are not sent to a people of obscure speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel—

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

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

World English Bible
For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel—

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

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Ezekiel Eats the Scroll
4Then He said to me, “Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them. 5For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel— 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.…

Cross References
Acts 14:11
When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices in the Lycaonian language: "The gods have come down to us in human form!"

Acts 26:17
I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

Isaiah 28:11
Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

Isaiah 33:19
You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

Ezekiel 3:4
Then He said to me, "Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them.

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.

Jonah 1:2
"Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me."


Treasury of Scripture

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

thou

Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Jonah 3:2-4
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee…

Acts 26:17,18
Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, …

and so

Ezekiel 3:6
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.

Psalm 81:5
This 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.

Isaiah 33:19
Thou 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.

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Ezekiel 3
1. Ezekiel eats the scroll
4. God encourages him
15. God shows him the rule of prophecy
22. God shuts and opens the prophet's mouth














(5) To a people of a strange speech.--In Ezekiel 3:4-7 it is emphasised that Ezekiel's immediate mission is to be, like that of his great Antitype, to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel; "and yet that they would not give the heed to him which men far below them in spiritual privilege would have gladly yielded. Similar facts are continually encountered in the Scriptures, whether in its histories, as in those of Naaman the Syrian, of the faith of the Syro-Ph?nician woman (Matthew 15:21-28), and of the Roman centurion (Matthew 8:10-12), or in the express declarations of our Lord that the teaching and signs given to Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum in vain would have been more than sufficient for the conversion of Tyre, or Sidon, or even of Sodom (Matthew 11:21; Matthew 11:23; Matthew 12:41-42). If it be asked, Why then should so much of the Divine compassion be expended upon a nation which so generally refused to avail itself of its blessings? the answer must be that only thus could even a few be raised at all above the very lowest spiritual plane, and that the raising of these few leads ultimately to the elevation of many. As an accountable being, man must be left free to neglect the proffered grace; and, as in the case of the Israelites to whom Ezekiel was sent, there would always be many who choose to do so. The consequence of this neglect must be such a hardening of the heart as was now shown by these people, and every man is warned by their example of the responsibility attached to the enjoyment of religious privilege. But the same thing would have happened with any other nation; and that God's faithfulness should not fail, and that His purposes for man's salvation should be accomplished, more grace must yet be given and His people must still be pleaded with, that at least a remnant of them might be led to repentance and be saved from the impending ruin. Theodoret calls attention to the contrast between the restriction of the grace of the Old Dispensation to a single people, and the universal diffusion of the preaching of the Gospel. . . . Verse 5. - Of a strange speech and of a hard language, etc.; literally, as in margin, both of Authorized Version and Revised Version, to a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue; i.e. to a barbarous people outside the covenant, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Scythians: not speaking the familiar sacred speech of Israel (compare the "stammering lips and another tongue" of Isaiah 28:11; Isaiah 33:19). The thought implied is that Ezekiel's mission, as to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matthew 15:24), was outwardly easier than if he had been sent to the heathen. With Israel there was at least the medium of a speech common both to the prophet and his hearers. In ver. 6 the thought is enlarged by the use of "many peoples."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֡י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you
אַתָּ֣ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are not
לֹא֩ (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

being sent
שָׁל֑וּחַ (šā·lū·aḥ)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

a people
עַ֨ם (‘am)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

of unfamiliar
עִמְקֵ֥י (‘im·qê)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6012: Deep, unfathomable

speech
שָׂפָ֛ה (śā·p̄āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin

or difficult
וְכִבְדֵ֥י (wə·ḵiḇ·ḏê)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3515: Heavy

language,
לָשׁ֖וֹן (lā·šō·wn)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 3956: The tongue

but to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the house
בֵּ֖ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

of Israel—
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc


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