You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
Parallel translations
- WEB You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.
- KJV Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
- NKJV You will not see a fierce people, A people of obscure speech, beyond perception, Of a stammering tongue that you cannot understand.
- NASB You will no longer see a fierce people, A people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends, Of a stammering tongue which no one understands.
- NLT You will no longer see these fierce, violent people with their strange, unknown language.
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Quick answer
The people will no longer face the fierce foreign invaders with their unintelligible language.
Overview
Isaiah promises relief from the arrogant Assyrians, whose strange speech symbolized their hostile, alien power over Judah. The deliverance means an end to oppression by those who could not be understood or reasoned with. It assures believers that God removes the threatening powers that trouble his people and restores peace to his city.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 28:11Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
- Deut 28:49–50The 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,
- Jer 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.
- Exod 14:13But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.
- 2 Kgs 19:32So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
- Ezek 3:5–6For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
- 1 Cor 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.”
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