6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard [1] language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

Other Translations of Ezekiel 3:6

New International Version

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

English Standard Version

6 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 Message

6 If I had sent you to such people, their ears would have perked up and they would have listened immediately.

New King James Version

6 not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

New Living Translation

6 No, I am not sending you to people with strange and difficult speech. If I did, they would listen!

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 3:6

Commentary on Ezekiel 3:1-11

(Read Ezekiel 3:1-11)

Ezekiel was to receive the truths of God as the food for his soul, and to feed upon them by faith, and he would be strengthened. Gracious souls can receive those truths of God with delight, which speak terror to the wicked. He must speak all that, and that only, which God spake to him. How can we better speak God's mind than with his words? If disappointed as to his people, he must not be offended. The Ninevites were wrought upon by Jonah's preaching, when Israel was unhumbled and unreformed. We must leave this unto the Divine sovereignty, and say, Lord, thy judgments are a great deep. They will not regard the word of the prophet, for they will not regard the rod of God. Christ promises to strengthen him. He must continue earnest in preaching, whatever the success might be.