For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
Parallel translations
- KJV For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
- BSB For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
- NKJV For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the house of Israel,
- NASB For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel,
- NLT I am not sending you to a foreign people whose language you cannot understand.
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Cross-references · 7
- Jonah 1:2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
- Isa 33:19You 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.
- Jonah 3:2–4“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
- Isa 28:11But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;
- Acts 26:17–18delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
- Ps 81:5He 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.
- Ezek 3:6not 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.
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