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You drunken leaders
    are like babies!
How can you possibly understand
    or teach the Lord's message?
10 You don't even listen—
all you hear is senseless sound
    after senseless sound.[a]

11 (A) So, the Lord will speak
    to his people
in strange sounds
    and foreign languages.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 28.10 sound: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verses 9,10.
  2. 28.11 in … foreign languages: This probably refers to the language of the Assyrians.

“Who is it he is trying to teach?(A)
    To whom is he explaining his message?(B)
To children weaned(C) from their milk,(D)
    to those just taken from the breast?
10 For it is:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that[a];
    a little here, a little there.(E)

11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues(F)
    God will speak to this people,(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:10 Hebrew / sav lasav sav lasav / kav lakav kav lakav (probably meaningless sounds mimicking the prophet’s words); also in verse 13