You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech which you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue which you cannot understand.
Isaiah 28:11 - Revised Standard Version Nay, but by men of strange lips and with an alien tongue the Lord 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. |
You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech which you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue which you cannot understand.
Behold, I am bringing upon you a nation from afar, 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 foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel—
In the law it is written, “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”
The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand,