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.
Isaiah 28:11 - New Revised Standard Version Truly, with stammering lip and with alien tongue he will speak to this people, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 for with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition No, but [the Lord will teach the rebels in a more humiliating way] by men with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people [says Isaiah, and teach them His lessons]. American Standard Version (1901) Nay, but by men of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people; Common English Bible With derisive speech and a foreign tongue, he will speak to this people. Catholic Public Domain Version For with the speech of lips and with a different language, he will speak to this people. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For with the speech of lips and with another tongue he will speak to this people. |
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.
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.
For you are not sent to a people of obscure speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
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.
The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,