Ezekiel 3:6

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!

Ezekiel 3:11

3:11 Go to the exiles, to your fellow countrymen, ³  and speak to them – say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ whether they pay attention or not.”

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “hear.”

[3:6]  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.

[3:11]  ³ tn Heb “to the sons of your people.”