Ezekiel 3:5 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 3:5

For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (420)

(Verse 5, 6.) For you are not being sent to the people of deep and difficult (unknown in the Vulgate) language, to the house of Israel, nor to many people of unknown language, whose language you cannot understand. And if I were to send you to them, they would listen to you. Because they do not want to come to you, you go to them. For they do not have a need for a healthy doctor, but for ones who are sick (Luke 5:31 ).

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech,.... "Deep of lip" (g), or "speech"; difficult to be got at and understood: and of a hard language: or "heavy of tongue" (h) of a barbarous and unknown language, whom he could not understand, nor they him; and so would have been barbarians to one another; and consequently it could not be thought his prophesying among them, could have been of any use.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech - I neither send thee to thy adversaries, the Chaldeans, nor to the Medes and Persians, their enemies. Even these would more likely have hearkened unto thee than thy own countrymen.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֡י	ki	for	H3588 →
לֹא֩	lo'	not	H3808 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
עַ֨ם	'am	a people	H5971 →
עִמְקֵ֥י	'im.Kei	deep of	H6012 →
שָׂפָ֛ה	sa.Fah	lip	H8193 →
וְכִבְדֵ֥י	ve.khiv.Dei	and heavy of	H3515 →
לָשׁ֖וֹן	la.Shon	tongue	H3956 →
אַתָּ֣ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
שָׁל֑וּחַ	sha.Lu.ach	[are] being sent	H7971 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
בֵּ֖ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 28:11
Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
leads to
- Jeremiah 5:15
  Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 14:21
  It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”
- Deuteronomy 28:49
  The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
- Isaiah 33:19
  You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
Through
Jonah 1:2
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
leads to
- Genesis 18:20–21
  Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
- Genesis 10:11
  From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
Through
Isaiah 33:19
You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
leads to
- Isaiah 28:11
  Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
- Deuteronomy 28:49–50
  The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Ezekiel