5. You aren’t being sent to a people whose language and speech are difficult and obscure but to the house of Israel.
6. No, not to many peoples who speak difficult and obscure languages, whose words you wouldn’t understand. If I did send you to them, they would listen to you.
7. But the house of Israel—they will refuse to listen to you because they refuse to listen to me. The whole house of Israel is hardheaded and hard-hearted too.
8. I’ve now hardened your face so that you can meet them head-on.
9. I’ve made your forehead like a diamond, harder than stone. Don’t be afraid of them or shrink away from them, because they are a household of rebels.