Isaiah 28:11
New International Version
Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people,

New Living Translation
So now God will have to speak to his people through foreign oppressors who speak a strange language!

English Standard Version
For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the LORD will speak to this people,

Berean Standard Bible
Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

King James Bible
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

New King James Version
For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people,

New American Standard Bible
Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

NASB 1995
Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

NASB 1977
Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

Legacy Standard Bible
Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

Amplified Bible
Indeed, the LORD will teach this people [in a more humiliating way] By [men with] stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

Christian Standard Bible
For he will speak to this people with stammering speech and in a foreign language.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So He will speak to this people with stammering speech and in a foreign language.

American Standard Version
Nay, but by men of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because with difficult speech and in another language I shall speak with this people

Brenton Septuagint Translation
by reason of the contemptuous words of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,

Contemporary English Version
So, the Lord will speak to his people in strange sounds and foreign languages.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.

English Revised Version
Nay, but by men of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD will speak to these people. He will mock them by speaking in a foreign language.

Good News Translation
If you won't listen to me, then God will use foreigners speaking some strange-sounding language to teach you a lesson.

International Standard Version
Very well, then, through the mouths of foreigners and foreign languages the LORD will speak to this people

JPS Tanakh 1917
For with stammering lips and with a strange tongue Shall it be spoken to this people;

Literal Standard Version
For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, | Does He speak to this people.

Majority Standard Bible
Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

New American Bible
Yes, with stammering lips and in a strange language he will speak to this people,

NET Bible
For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

New Revised Standard Version
Truly, with stammering lip and with alien tongue he will speak to this people,

New Heart English Bible
But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and a strange language;

Webster's Bible Translation
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

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

Young's Literal Translation
For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Judgment on Ephraim
10For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.” 11Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people 12to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 14:21
It is written in the Law: "By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord."

Isaiah 33:19
You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

Jeremiah 5:15
Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel," declares the LORD. "It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.

Ezekiel 3:5
For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel--


Treasury of Scripture

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

with

Deuteronomy 28:49
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

Jeremiah 5:15
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

1 Corinthians 14:21
In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

stammering lips.

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Isaiah 28
1. The prophet threatens Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness
5. The residue shall be advanced in the kingdom of Christ
7. He rebukes their error
9. Their unwillingness to learn
14. And their security
16. Christ the sure foundation is promised
17. Their security shall be tried
23. They are incited to the consideration of God's providence














(11) With stammering lips and another tongue . . .--The "stammering lips" are those of the Assyrian conquerors, whose speech would seem to the men of Judah as a barbarous patois. They, with their short sharp commands, would be the next utterers of Jehovah's will to the people who would not listen to the prophet's teaching. The description of the "stammering tongue" re-appears in Isaiah 33:19. (Comp. Deuteronomy 28:49.) In 1Corinthians 14:21, the words are applied to the gift of "tongues," which, in its ecstatic utterances, was unintelligible to those who heard it, and was therefore, as the speech of the barbarian conquerors was in Isaiah's thoughts, the antithesis of true prophetic teaching.

Verses 11-13. - JUDAH'S PUNISHMENT. God will retort on the Jews their scorn of his prophet, and, as they will not be taught by his utterances, which they find to be childish and unrefined, will teach them by utterances still more unrefined - those of the Assyrians, which will be quite as monotonous and quite as full of minutiae as Isaiah's. Verse 11. - With stammering lips and with another tongue. The Assyrian language, though a Semitic idiom nearly allied to Hebrew, was sufficiently different to sound in the ears of a Jew like his own tongue mispronounced and barbarized.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So
כִּ֚י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

with stammering
בְּלַעֲגֵ֣י (bə·la·‘ă·ḡê)
Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3934: A buffoon, a foreigner

speech
שָׂפָ֔ה (śā·p̄āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin

and a foreign
אַחֶ֑רֶת (’a·ḥe·reṯ)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 312: Hinder, next, other

tongue,
וּבְלָשׁ֖וֹן (ū·ḇə·lā·šō·wn)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - common singular
Strong's 3956: The tongue

He will speak
יְדַבֵּ֖ר (yə·ḏab·bêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

this
הַזֶּֽה׃ (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

people
הָעָ֥ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock


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