Ezekiel 3:5

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."
  • Isa 33:19 : 19 You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.
  • Ezek 3:6 : 6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.
  • Ps 81:5 : 5 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.
  • Isa 28:11 : 11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;
  • 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 Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across. 4 Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

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  • Ezek 3:6-7
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    90%

    6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen 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 hard-hearted.

  • 4 He said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

  • Ezek 2:3-8
    6 verses
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    3 He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.

    4 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.

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

    6 You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

    7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.

    8 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which 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 shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

    11 Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

  • 6 Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  • Ezek 3:16-17
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    16 It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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

  • 19 You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.

  • 15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel," says Yahweh. "It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.

  • Ezek 3:25-27
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    25 But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:

    26 and I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, 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 tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

  • 11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;

  • 7 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning 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 Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!

  • 24 But he answered, "I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

  • 16 Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of Isaac.'

  • 9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'

  • 7 But Yahweh said to me, "Don't say, 'I am a child;' for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.

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

    2 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.

  • 4 Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

  • 23 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 21 In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."

  • 26 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

  • 2 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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

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

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

  • Ezek 21:1-2
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    1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the sanctuaries, 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 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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

  • 1 He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.

  • 9 and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him:

  • 14 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 1 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

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

  • 12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read."

  • 5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

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