The Captivity of Ephraim
Isaiah 28:11
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this peopleCited in 1 Corinthians 14:21
- KJV
- For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.stammering…: Heb. stammerings of lipwill…: or, he hath spoken
- WEB
- But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language,
- ASV
- Nay, but by men of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;
- LSV
- For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, || Does He speak to this people.
- YLT
- For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.
- DBY
- For with stammering lips and a strange tongue will he speak to this people;
- DRC
- For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.
- GNV
- For with a stammering tongue and with a strange language shall he speake vnto this people.
- JPS
- For with stammering lips and with a strange tongue shall it be spoken to this people;
- LXXE
- by reason of the contemptuous words of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- כִּ֚י בְּלַעֲגֵ֣י שָׂפָ֔ה וּבְלָשׁ֖וֹן אַחֶ֑רֶת יְדַבֵּ֖ר אֶל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- διὰ φαυλισμὸν χειλέων, διὰ γλώσσης ἑτέρας, ὅτι λαλήσουσι τῷ λαῷ τούτῳ,
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
UntowardStammererLawHosheaLipLanguageMock; Mocker; MockingCanon of the Old TestamentWord of GodQuotations and Allusions
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Cross-references most cited first
- 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.”
- 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,
- 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.
- Isaiah 33:19You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
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