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Isaiah 28:11-12
New International Version
Isaiah 28:11-12
New International Version
Isaiah 28:11-12
New English Translation
Isaiah 28:11-12
New English Translation
11 For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue
he will speak to these people.[a]
12 In the past he said to them,[b]
“This is where security can be found.
Provide security for the one who is exhausted.
This is where rest can be found.”[c]
But they refused to listen.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 28:11 sn This verse alludes to the coming Assyrian invasion, when the people will hear a foreign language that sounds like gibberish to them. The Lord is the subject of the verb “will speak,” as v. 12 makes clear. He once spoke in meaningful terms, but in the coming judgment he will speak to them, as it were, through the mouth of foreign oppressors. The apparent gibberish they hear will be an outward reminder that God has decreed their defeat.
- Isaiah 28:12 tn Heb “who said to them.”
- Isaiah 28:12 sn This message encapsulates the Lord’s invitation to his people to find security in his protection and blessing.
Isaiah 28:11-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Isaiah 28:11-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 Truly, with stammering lip
and with another tongue
he will speak to this people,(A)
12 to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
give rest to the weary,
and this is repose,”
yet they would not hear.(B)
Isaiah 28:11-12
New Living Translation
Isaiah 28:11-12
New Living Translation
11 So now God will have to speak to his people
through foreign oppressors who speak a strange language!
12 God has told his people,
“Here is a place of rest;
let the weary rest here.
This is a place of quiet rest.”
But they would not listen.
Yeshayah 28:11-12
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Yeshayah 28:11-12
Orthodox Jewish Bible
11 For with stammering safah (lips) and with lashon acheret (another tongue, different tongue) will He speak to HaAm Hazeh.
12 To whom He said, This is the menuchah (rest) wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing; yet they would not hear.
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