Ezequiel 3:5

5 Porque no eres enviado a pueblo de habla profunda ni de lengua difícil, sino a la casa de Israel

Ezequiel 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 3:5

For thou [art] not sent to a people of a strange speech
"Deep of lip" ^F7, or "speech"; difficult to be got at and understood: and of a hard language:
or "heavy of tongue" ^F8 of a barbarous and unknown language, whom he could not understand, nor they him; and so would have been barbarians to one another; and consequently it could not be thought his prophesying among them, could have been of any use. This may be considered, either by way of encouragement to the prophet to go on his errand to such a people; since as he could understand them, and they him he might hope to meet with success; or, however he could deliver his message so as to be understood: or as an aggravation of the impiety perverseness and stupidity of the Israelites; that though the prophet spoke to them in their own language, yet they would not hear nor receive his words: [but] to the house of Israel;
who were a people of the same speech and language with the prophet; all spoke and understood the language of Canaan; nor were the things he delivered such as they were altogether strangers to being the same, for substance, which Moses, and the other prophets, had ever taught.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (hpv yqme) "profundi labii", Vatablus; "profundorum labio", Polanus, Cocceius; "profundi sermonis", Starkius.
F8 (Nwvl ydbk) "graves linguae", Montanus; "gravium lingua", Polanus.

Ezequiel 3:5 In-Context

3 Y me dijo: Hijo de hombre, haz a tu vientre que coma, y llena tus entrañas de este rollo que yo te doy. Y lo comí, y fue en mi boca dulce como miel

4 Me dijo luego: Hijo de hombre, ve y entra a la casa de Israel, y habla a ellos con mis palabras

5 Porque no eres enviado a pueblo de habla profunda ni de lengua difícil, sino a la casa de Israel

6 No a muchos pueblos de profunda habla ni de lengua difícil, cuyas palabras no entiendas; y si a ellos te enviara, ellos te oirían

7 Mas los de la Casa de Israel no te querrán oír, porque no me quieren oír a mí; porque toda la Casa de Israel son fuertes de frente, y duros de corazón