5For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
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Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-15)These verses are fitly joined by some translators to the foregoing chapter, as being of a piece with it and a continuation of the same vision. The prophets received the word from God that they might deliver it to the people of God, furnished themselves that they might furnish them with the knowledge of the mind and will of God. Now here the prophet is taught, I. How he must receive divine revelati…
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