Isaiah 28:11

11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people,

Isaiah 28:11 in Other Translations

11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

11 For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the LORD will speak to this people,

11 So now God will have to speak to his people through foreign oppressors who speak a strange language!

11 But that's exactly how you will be addressed. God will speak to this people In baby talk, one syllable at a time -

11 Nay, but by [men of] strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;

11 The LORD will speak to these people. He will mock them by speaking in a foreign language.

11 So He will speak to this people with stammering speech and in a foreign language.

11 All right then, these people won't listen to me. So God will speak to them. He will speak by using people who speak unfamiliar languages. He will speak by using the mouths of strangers.

Isaiah 28:11 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 28:11

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he
speak to this people.
] Or "hath spoken" ^F19; as parents and nurses, in a lisping manner, and in a language and tone different from what they use in common, speak unto their children, accommodating themselves according to their capacities and weakness; and so it is a continuation of the method to be used in instructing the Jews, as being like children: or else these words are to be considered as a reason why, since they refused instruction in this plain, easy, and gentle manner, by the ministry of the prophets of the Lord, he would speak to them in a more severe and in a rougher manner in his providences, and bring a people against them of a strange language they understood not, and so should not be able to treat and make peace with them, and who would carry them captive into a strange land; which was fulfilled by bringing the Chaldean army upon them, ( Jeremiah 5:15 ) see ( 1 Corinthians 14:21 ) and afterwards the Romans.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 So Gataker.

Isaiah 28:11 In-Context

9 “Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast?

10 For it is: Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that ; a little here, a little there.”

11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people,

12 to whom he said, “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”; and, “This is the place of repose”— but they would not listen.

13 So then, the word of the LORD to them will become: Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; a little here, a little there— so that as they go they will fall backward; they will be injured and snared and captured.

Cross References

• 1. S Genesis 11:7; Isaiah 33:19; Jeremiah 5:15
• 2. Ezekiel 3:5; 1 Corinthians 14:21*