Ezekiel 3:5
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
Context
This verse from Ezekiel Chapter 3 connects to 9 cross-references. Ezekiel eats the scroll and it tastes as sweet as honey. He goes to the exiles in bitterness and sits among them for seven days overwhelmed. God appoints him as a watchman: if the wicked die without warning their blood …
Other Translations
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue <FI>art<Fi> thou sent--unto the house of Israel;
For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;
Cross References
This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard …
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering …
Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, …
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and …
Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, …