Ezekiel 3:5
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For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
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“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:
Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.