Ezekiel 3:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ not to many peoples of obscure speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Not to many peoples of foreign speech and of a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to such people, they would have listened to you and heeded My words.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken unto thee.

Common English Bible

⁶ No, not to many peoples who speak difficult and obscure languages, whose words you wouldn’t understand. If I did send you to them, they would listen to you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ and not to many peoples of profound words or of an unknown language, whose words you would not be able to understand. But if you were sent to them, they would listen to you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Nor to many nations of a strange speech and of an unknown tongue, whose words thou canst not understand: and if thou wert sent to them, they would hearken to thee.

Ezekiel 3:6 Cross References

Isaiah 33:19

No longer will you see the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a language that you cannot understand.

Ezekiel 3:5

For you are not sent to a people of obscure speech and difficult language but to the house of Israel,

Ezekiel 3:7

But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me, because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.

Acts 27:28

So they took soundings and found twenty fathoms; a little farther on they took soundings again and found fifteen fathoms.