Verse 5

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

Referenced Verses

  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
  • Isa 33:19 : 19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that thou canst] not understand.
  • Ezek 3:6 : 6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
  • 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 understood not.
  • Isa 28:11 : 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
  • Jonah 3:2-4 : 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 ‹Delivering thee from the people, and› [from] ‹the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,› 18 ‹To open their eyes,› [and] ‹to turn› [them] ‹from darkness to light, and› [from] ‹the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.›