6. 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.
7. But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.
8. Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
9. I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”
10. Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.
11. Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD;’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.