Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
Isaiah 33:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 No longer will you see the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a language that you cannot understand. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You will see no more the fierce and insolent people, a people of a speech too deep and obscure to be comprehended, of a strange and stammering tongue that you cannot understand. American Standard Version (1901) Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst not understand. Common English Bible You will no longer see the defiant people, the people of speech too obscure to understand, who stammer in an incomprehensible language. Catholic Public Domain Version You will not look upon a shameless people, a people of exalted words. For you are not able to understand the dissertation of a tongue in which there is no wisdom. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The shameless people thou shalt not see, the people of profound speech: so that thou canst not understand the eloquence of his tongue, in whom there is no wisdom. |
Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, shoot an arrow there, come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege ramp against it.
But Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the Lord will accomplish for you today, for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again.
Truly, with stammering lip and with another tongue he will speak to this people,
By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.
I am going to bring upon you a nation from far away, O house of Israel, says 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.
In the law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, yet even then they will not listen to me,” says the Lord.