For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
For thou art not sent to a people of strange language, and of difficult speech, [but] to the house of Israel;
For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue art thou sent--unto the house of Israel;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEzekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’
- Author
- Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
- Date
- Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)