Isaiah Chapter 28 verse 11 Holy Bible
Nay, but by `men of' strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;
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No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:
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For with stammering lips and a strange tongue will he speak to this people;
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For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
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No, but by [men of] strange lips and with another language will he speak to this people;
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For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.
