Ezekiel 3:5

Ezekiel chapter 3 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.4And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

v.5This passage

v.6not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken unto thee.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Isaiah 28:11
Nay, but bymen of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;
Acts 26:17
delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I send thee,
Psalms 81:5
He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, WhereI heard a language that I knew not.
Isaiah 33:19
Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst not understand.
Ezekiel 3:6
not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken unto thee.