Isaiah 28:11
Good News Translation
If you won't listen to me, then God will use foreigners speaking some strange-sounding language to teach you a lesson.

New Revised Standard Version
Truly, with stammering lip and with alien tongue he will speak to this people,

Contemporary English Version
So, the Lord will speak to his people in strange sounds and foreign languages.

New American Bible
Yes, with stammering lips and in a strange language he will speak to this people,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.

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Deuteronomy 28:49 The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,

Jeremiah 5:15 Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.

1 Corinthians 14:21 In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people: and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

stammering lips.

Context
Judgment on Ephraim
10For command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there. 11For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.12To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is my refreshing: and they would not hear.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 14:21
In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people: and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 33:19
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.

Jeremiah 5:15
Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.

Ezekiel 3:5
For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:

Isaiah 28:10
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