You are not being sent to people whose speech you can’t understand, whose language is difficult. You are being sent to Israel.
He gave this rule to the people of Joseph when they went out of the land of Egypt. I heard a language I did not know, saying:
So the Lord will use strange words and foreign languages to speak to these people.
No longer will you see those proud people from other countries, whose strange language you couldn’t understand.
Then he said to me, “Human, go to the people of Israel, and speak my words to them.
You are not being sent to many nations whose speech you can’t understand, whose language is difficult, whose words you cannot understand. If I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
Then the Spirit picked me up and brought me into the inner courtyard. There I saw the Lord’s glory filling the Temple.
“Get up, go to the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it, because I see the evil things they do.”
When the crowds saw what Paul did, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have become like humans and have come down to us!”