Isaiah 28:11

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“Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people”

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BSBPD

“Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Nay, but bymen of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 28:11 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 28:49The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
  2. Isaiah 33:19You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
  3. Jeremiah 5:15Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
  4. 1 Corinthians 14:21It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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