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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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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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