Isaiah 33:19

19 The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding.

Isaiah 33:19 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 33:19

Thou shalt not see a fierce people
A people of a fierce countenance, as in ( Daniel 8:23 ) fierce in their looks, furious in their temper, cruel and bloodthirsty in their practices, confirmed and hardened in their sins, whose consciences are seared as with a red hot iron; a character given of the Papists, ( 1 Timothy 4:2 ) these shall be no more seen nor feared: a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive;
than the people in common could, having their worship and devotion not in their mother tongue, but in the Latin tongue: of a stammering tongue, [that thou canst] not understand:
meaning the same as before, a barbarous language, as everyone is to those who understand it not; so the Syriac and Assyrian languages were to the Jews, ( 2 Kings 18:26 ) and so the Roman language to other nations; but now no more to be used in religious worship; nor shall the church of God be any more visited by Turks or Papists, and be in any dread of them more.

Isaiah 33:19 In-Context

17 A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.

18 Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where [is] he who is counting? Where [is] he who is weighing? Where [is] he who is counting the towers?

19 The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding.

20 See Zion, the city of our meetings, Thine eyes see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, A tent not taken down, Not removed are its pins for ever, And none of its cords are broken.

21 But there mighty [is] Jehovah for us, A place of rivers -- streams broad of sides, No ship with oars doth go into it, And a mighty ship doth not pass over it.