Yehezkiel 3:5

3:5 For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech ¹  and difficult language, ²  but ³  to the house of Israel –

Yehezkiel 3:1

3:1 He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you see in front of you ⁴  – eat this scroll – and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

1 Korintus 14:21

14:21 It is written in the law: “By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” ⁵  says the Lord.

[3:5]  ¹ tn Heb “deep of lip” (in the sense of incomprehensible).

[3:5]  ² tn Heb “heavy of tongue.” Similar language occurs in Exod 4:10; Isa 33:19.

[3:5]  ³ tn The conjunction “but” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied from the context.

[3:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “eat what you find.”

[14:21]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Isa 28:11-12.