Ezekiel 3:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.
  • Isa 33:19 : 19 Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.
  • Ezek 3:6 : 6 Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.
  • Ps 81:5 : 5 He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.
  • Isa 28:11 : 11 No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:
  • Jonah 3:2-4 : 2 Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you. 3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end. 4 And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

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  • Ezek 3:6-7
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    6Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.

    7But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.

  • 4And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.

  • Ezek 2:3-8
    6 verses
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    3And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day.

    4And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.

    5And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them.

    6And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

    7And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.

    8But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.

  • Ezek 3:10-11
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    10Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.

    11And go now to those who have been taken away as prisoners, to the children of your people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said; if they give ear or if they do not.

  • 6But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,

  • Ezek 3:16-17
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    16And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    17Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.

  • 19Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.

  • 15See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

  • Ezek 3:25-27
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    73%

    25But see, O son of man, I will put bands on you, prisoning you in them, and you will not go out among them:

    26And I will make your tongue fixed to the roof of your mouth, so that you have no voice and may not make protests to them: for they are an uncontrolled people.

    27But when I have talk with you I will make your mouth open, and you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Let the hearer give ear; and as for him who will not, let him keep his ears shut: for they are an uncontrolled people.

  • 11No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:

  • 7So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger.

  • 9Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing?

  • 1Give ear to the word which the Lord says to you, O people of Israel:

  • 24But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.

  • 16Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.

  • 9And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

  • 7But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for wherever I send you, you are to go, and whatever I give you orders to say, you are to say.

  • Ezek 12:1-2
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    1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.

  • 4Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:

  • 23And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 21In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

  • 26Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

  • 2And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 1When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;

  • 1Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  • 27Son of man, see, the children of Israel say, The vision which he sees is for the days which are a long way off, and his words are of times still far away.

  • Ezek 21:1-2
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    1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;

  • 20Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,

  • Ezek 17:1-2
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    1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a comparison for the children of Israel,

  • 1And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel.

  • 9And said to them, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to put your request before him:

  • 14And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 1Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.

  • 16Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 12And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.

  • 5So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

  • 11Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,