3:6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand 1 – surely if 2 I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!
1 tnHeb “hear.”
2 tc The MT reads “if not” but most ancient versions translate only “if.” The expression occurs with this sense in Isa 5:9; 14:24. See also Ezek 34:8; 36:5; 38:19.