Ezekiel 3:5

In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even hear me that way, says the Lord.”

Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,

Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,

“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph.

You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”

Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.

that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’ ” The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.

Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.

These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.

But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language,

You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.

not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’

who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”

So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.