5. “For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and of difficult language, but to the house of Yisra’ĕl,
6. not to many people of foreign speech and of difficult language, whose words you do not understand. If I had rather sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
7. “But the house of Yisra’ĕl is going to refuse to listen to you, for they refuse to listen to Me. For all the house of Yisra’ĕl are hard of head, and hard of heart.
8. “See, I shall make your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
9. “Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I shall make your forehead. Do not be afraid of them, nor be discouraged at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”
10. And He said to me, “Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.
11. “And go! Come to the exiles, to the children of your people, and speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה,’ whether they hear, or whether they refuse.”