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 27:33

27:33 When your products went out from the seas,

you satisfied many peoples;

with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise

you enriched the kings of the earth.

Ezekiel 29:13

29:13 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years ³  I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.

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¹ tn Heb “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.

³ sn In Ezek 4:4-8 it was said that the house of Judah would suffer forty years.