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Ezekiel 3:6

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

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

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.

7 But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.

8 Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.
ASV
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.
DARBY
not to many peoples of strange language and of difficult speech, whose words thou canst not understand: had I sent thee to them, would they not hearken unto thee?
BLB
not to many peoples of unfathomable speech and heavy tongue, whose words you cannot understand. If I had not sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
ÅB
ikke til mange folk med vanskelig språk og tungt mæle, hvis ord du ikke forstår; sannelig, om jeg sendte deg til dem, skulle de høre på deg.
OTB
ikke til mange folk med uforståelig tale eller vanskelig språk, hvis ord du ikke kan forstå. Sannelig, hvis jeg hadde sendt deg til dem, ville de ha lyttet til deg.
B1930
ikke til mange folk med vanskelig sprog og tungt mæle, hvis ord du ikke forstår; sannelig, om jeg sendte dig til dem, skulde de høre på dig.

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Cross references

  • Matthew 11:20–24

    Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.

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  • Jonah 3:5–10

    And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

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  • Matthew 12:41–42

    The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.

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  • Romans 9:30–33

    What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

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  • Luke 11:30–32

    For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

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  • Acts 27:28

    They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.

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