Parallel Verses New American Standard Bible Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue, King James Bible For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. Darby Bible Translation For with stammering lips and a strange 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. Isaiah 28:11 Parallel Commentary Barnes' Notes on the BibleFor - This verse is to be understood as a response to what the complaining and dissatisfied people had said, as expressed in the previous verse. God says that he will teach them, but it should be by another tongue - a foreign language in a distant land. Since they refused to hearken to the messages which he sent to them, and which they regarded as adapted only to children, he would teach them in a manner that should be "much more" humiliating; he would make use of the barbarous language of foreigners to bring them to the true knowledge of God. With stammering lips - The word which is used here is derived from a verb (לעג lâ‛âg), which means to speak unintelligibly: especially to speak in a foreign language, or to stammer; and then to mock, deride, laugh at, scorn (compare Isaiah 33:19; Proverbs 1:26; Proverbs 17:5; Psalm 2:4; Psalm 59:9; Job 22:19). Here it means in a foreign or barbarous tongue; and the sense is, that the lessons which God wished to teach would be conveyed to them through the language of foreigners - the Chaldeans. They should be removed to a distant land, and there, in hearing a strange speech, in living long among foreigners, they should learn the lesson which they refused to do when addressed by the prophets in their own land. Isaiah 28:11 Parallel Commentaries Library God's Strange Work'That He may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act.'--ISAIAH xxviii. 21. How the great events of one generation fall dead to another! There is something very pathetic in the oblivion that swallows up world- resounding deeds. Here the prophet selects two instances which to him are solemn and singular examples of divine judgment, and we have difficulty in finding out to what he refers. To him they seemed the most luminous illustrations he could find of the principle … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture The Husbandman and his Operations How to Make Use of Christ for Steadfastness, in a Time when Truth is Oppressed and Borne Down. Of Orders. Cross References 1 Corinthians 14:21 In the Law it is written, "BY MEN OF STRANGE TONGUES AND BY THE LIPS OF STRANGERS I WILL SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE, AND EVEN SO THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME," says the Lord. Isaiah 33:19 You will no longer see a fierce people, A people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends, Of a stammering tongue which no one understands. Jeremiah 5:15 "Behold, I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel," declares the LORD. "It is an enduring nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say. Ezekiel 3:5 "For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel, Jump to Previous Alien Broken Foreign Indeed Lips Nation Scorned Speak Stammering Strange Talk Tongue Tongues WordJump to Next Alien Broken Foreign Indeed Lips Nation Scorned Speak Stammering Strange Talk Tongue Tongues WordLinks Isaiah 28:11 NIVIsaiah 28:11 NLT Isaiah 28:11 ESV Isaiah 28:11 NASB Isaiah 28:11 KJV Isaiah 28:11 Bible Apps Isaiah 28:11 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 28:11 Chinese Bible Isaiah 28:11 French Bible Isaiah 28:11 German Bible Isaiah 28:11 Commentaries Bible Hub |