Ezekiel 3:4-8 Then he said to me, Son of man, go and get thee to the house of Israel and speak to them these words of mine,

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ Then he said to me, Son of man, go and get thee to the house of Israel and speak to them these words of mine, ⁵ seeing thou art sent to the house of Israel; not to a people of strange language, ⁶ nor to many tribes of strange and foreign tongues, nor to them whose pronunciation is harsh and whose words thou canst not understand; though had I sent thee to such they might have hearkened to thee. ⁷ But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee, since they are not willing to hearken to me. Because all the house of Israel are contentious and stubborn, ⁸ therefore behold I have made thy face strong against their faces, and I will invigorate thy struggle against their struggling