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

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Acts 14:11
And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

Acts 26:17
Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send you,

Isaiah 28:11
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

Isaiah 33:19
You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than you can perceive; of a stammering tongue, that you can not understand.

Ezekiel 3:4
And he said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.

Ezekiel 3:6
Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

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

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Matthew Henry's Commentary

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. See Margin, Hebrew, "deep of lip, and heavy of tongue," that is, men speaking an obscure and unintelligible tongue. Even they would have listened to the prophet; but the Jews, though addressed in their own tongue, will not hear him.