For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel—
He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
Nay, but by men of strange lips and with an alien tongue the Lord will speak to this people,
You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech which you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue which you cannot understand.
And he said to me, “Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.
not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you.
the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.”
And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”