Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
I'm not sending you to people who speak a completely different language that you can't even understand. Honestly, if I had sent you to them, they probably would have actually listened to you.
Sometimes the people closest to you are the hardest ones to reach.
📚 Historical Context
Ezekiel was a prophet living during the Babylonian exile, when the Israelites were captives in a foreign land, and God was calling him to deliver messages of warning and repentance to his own people. In this verse, God contrasts the potential receptivity of foreign nations, who spoke unfamiliar languages and might have listened if Ezekiel were sent to them, with the stubbornness of the Israelites. This highlights the irony that God's chosen people were often more resistant to His word than outsiders would be.
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