Isaiah 28:11

11 No, but by [men of] strange lips and with another language will he speak to this people;

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 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

11 No, but by [men of] strange lips and with another language will he speak to this people;

12 to whom he said, This is the rest, give you rest to him who is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

13 Therefore shall the word of Yahweh be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.