“ For with stammeringb lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. ”
For - This verse is to be understood as a response to what the complaining and dissatisfied people had said, as expressed in the previous verse. God says that he will teach them, but it should be...
For with stammering (k) lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. (k) Let one teach what he can, yet they will no more understand him, than if he spoke in a strange language.
Jerusalem also is Threatened with Destruction. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pron...
For . Yea, verily. Taking the words out of their own taunting lips, and turning them against themselves. Quoted in 1 Corinthians 14:21 . stammering . jabbering. another . foreign. Referring to...
11. For with stammering lips. (224) Some supply, that “it is as if one should say;” but that is superfluous. I therefore view these words as relating to God, who became, as the Prophet tell...
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
For with stammering lips, &c.— Instead of refreshing, in Isaiah 28:12 we may read, happy place; and the 13th may be rendered, But the word of the Lord shall be unto them,—that they may g...
In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, -The prophet now turns to Judah, a gracious promise to the remnant ("re...
This chapter must be assigned ( Isaiah 28:1 ) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave...
With stammering lips and another tongue... — The “stammering lips” are those of the Assyrian conquerors, whose speech would seem to the men of Judah as a barbarous patois. They, with their short...
BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assy...
the Decay of an Intemperate People Isaiah 28:1-13 A new series of prophecies begins here and extends to Isaiah 32:20 . Samaria is described as a faded crown or garland on the nation's head bec...
Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelatio...
Here is another solemn charge, and more pointed than the former. Errors are not only found in Ephraim, but in Judah; not only among the carnal, but the professor. Yea, God's ministers, both prophet a...
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. Or "hath spoken" s; as parents and nurses, in a lisping manner, and in a language and tone different from what they use in...
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. Ver. 11. For with stammering lips, &c. ] With a lisping lip. Heb., With scoffs of lip, or with language of mocks. Su...
For Or, rather, therefore , as the particle כי is often used. For the prophet here evidently intends to express the punishment of their dulness. With stammering lips, and another tongue By peopl...
The Degeneracy of Judah. B. C. 725. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he...
For; or, therefore , as this particle is oft used. For this seems to be the punishment of their dulness. With stammering lips; either, 1. In way of condescension, as mothers and nurses teach c...
His Opponent Mock Isaiah's Teaching ( Isaiah 28:9-13 ). Isaiah's opponents mock him because all that he does is proclaim a repetitive message. In their view that is to treat them like children. Bu...
Isaiah 28:1 . The crown of pride. Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. M...
Whom shall He teach knowledge? The scoffing drunkards They scoff at the prophet, that intolerable moralist. They are full-grown and free; he need not teach them knowledge Isaiah 11:9 ), and ex...
SECTION VII . RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH ( CH . 28-31.) EXPOSITION Isaiah 28:1-23 A WARNING TO SAMARIA . The prophet has now east his eagle glance over t...
Concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Chapter s 28 to 33 in the Book of Isaiah contain a cycle of prophecies and proclamations concerning the relation of Judah to Assyria in the time of King Hezekiah....
1 Corinthians 14:21 ; Deuteronomy 28:49 ; Jeremiah 5:15
Another tongue — By people of a strange language, whom he shall bring among them, seeing they will not hear him speaking, by his prophets, in their own language.