Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

because you're not going to a people whose speech you cannot understand or whose language is difficult to speak. Instead, you're going to the house of Israel.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language but to the house of Israel.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

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

Bible in Basic English

For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

For not to a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue; thou art sent to the house of Israel;

King James 2000

For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you are sent to the house of Israel, not to a people {of obscure speech} and {of a difficult language},

Modern King James verseion

For you are not sent to a people of a deep lip and of a difficult language, but to the house of Israel;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For I send thee not to a people that hath a strange, unknown, or hard speech, but unto the house of Israel;

NET Bible

For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel --

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

For not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue, art thou sent - but unto the house of Israel:

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue art thou sent -- unto the house of Israel;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For thou art not sent
שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

to a people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

of a strange
עמק 
`ameq 
Usage: 3

שׂפת שׂפה 
Saphah 
Usage: 176

and of an hard
כּבד 
Kabed 
Usage: 40

לשׁנה לשׁן לשׁון 
Lashown 
Usage: 116

but to the house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

References

Hastings

Context Readings

The Call Of Ezekiel To Speak God's Words

4 Then he told me, "Son of Man, go to the house of Israel and tell them what I have to say to them, 5 because you're not going to a people whose speech you cannot understand or whose language is difficult to speak. Instead, you're going to the house of Israel. 6 This isn't a large group of people whose speech is unintelligible to you or whose language is difficult for you to comprehend. Frankly, if I had sent you to that kind of people, they would certainly have listened to you!


Cross References

Jonah 1:2

"Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city! Then cry out in protest against it, because their evil has come to my attention."

Isaiah 33:19

No longer will you see those arrogant people, those people with their obscure speech you cannot comprehend, stammering in a language you cannot understand.

Psalm 81:5

a decree that he prescribed for Joseph when he went throughout the land of Egypt, speaking a language I did not recognize.

Isaiah 28:11

Very well, then, through the mouths of foreigners and foreign languages the LORD will speak to this people

Ezekiel 3:6

This isn't a large group of people whose speech is unintelligible to you or whose language is difficult for you to comprehend. Frankly, if I had sent you to that kind of people, they would certainly have listened to you!

Jonah 3:2-4

"Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."

Acts 26:17-18

I'll continue to rescue you from your people and from the gentiles to whom I'm sending you.

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