Ezekiel 3:5
Ezekiel Eats the Scroll
4Then He said to me, “Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them.5For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—6not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
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Berean Standard Bible
For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
American Standard Version (1901)
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard 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;
Douay-Rheims 1899
For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:
Free Bible Version
I'm not sending you to those whose language is foreign to you, to people that you don't know—but to the people of Israel.
King James (Authorized) Version
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
Translation for Translators
The people to whom I am sending you are not people whose language is very difficultto learn, a language which you do not understand. I am sending you to your Israeli people [MTY].
Unlocked Literal Bible
For you are not being sent to a people of strange speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
Noah Webster Bible
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—
Young's Literal Translation
For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue [art] thou sent — unto the house of Israel;