Ezekiel 3:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.
  • Isa 33:19 : 19 You will not see a fierce people, a people of a speech too deep to understand, of a stammering tongue that you cannot comprehend.
  • Ezek 3:6 : 6 Not to many people of a strange language and hard speech, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
  • Ps 81:5 : 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt; where I heard a language that I did not understand.
  • Isa 28:11 : 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
  • Jonah 3:2-4 : 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you. 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey, and he cried out, saying, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, 18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith that is in me.

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  • Ezek 3:6-7
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    90%

    6 Not to many people of a strange language and hard speech, 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 not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hardhearted.

  • 4 And he said to me, Son of man, go, get yourself to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

  • Ezek 2:3-8
    6 verses
    77%

    3 And he said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even to this very day.

    4 For they are impudent children and hardhearted. I do send you to them; and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD.

    5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, (for they are a rebellious house,) will yet know that there has been a prophet among them.

    6 And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions: do not be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

    7 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse: for they are most rebellious.

    8 But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat what I give you.

  • Ezek 3:10-11
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    10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

    11 And go, get to those of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they refuse.

  • 6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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

    17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.

  • 19 You will not see a fierce people, a people of a speech too deep to understand, of a stammering tongue that you cannot comprehend.

  • 15 Behold, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, neither understand what they say.

  • Ezek 3:25-27
    3 verses
    73%

    25 But you, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon you, and they shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:

    26 And I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

    27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; He that hears, let him hear; and he that refuses, let him refuse: for they are a rebellious house.

  • 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

  • 7 So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

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

  • 1 Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel:

  • 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  • 16 Now therefore hear the word of the LORD: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.

  • 9 And He said, Go and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and you see indeed, but do not perceive.

  • 7 But the LORD said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for you shall go to all to whom I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.

  • Ezek 12:1-2
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    1 The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see but do not see; and ears to hear but do not hear: for they are a rebellious house.

  • 4 Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

  • 23 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 21 In the law it is written: With men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people, and yet for all that they will not hear me, says the Lord.

  • 26 saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive.

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

  • 1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;

  • 1 Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

  • 27 Son of man, behold, the house of Israel says, The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are far off.

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

    2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

  • 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

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

    2 Son of man, present a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

  • 1 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go speak to the house of Israel.

  • 9 And said to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him;

  • 14 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 1 Hear this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

  • 16 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, please: and he says, I am not learned.

  • 5 That I may seize the house of Israel in their own hearts because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

  • 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,