Ezekiel 3:5

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue <FI>art<Fi> thou sent--unto the house of Israel;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 3:5 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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:
  2. Isaiah 28:11Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
  3. Isaiah 33:19You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
  4. 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.
  5. Ezekiel 43:5Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
  6. Jonah 1:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
  7. Jonah 3:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
  8. Acts 26:17I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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