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. Surely God scorneth the scorners, Pro 3:34 for he loveth to retaliate, and proportion choice to choice, Isa 66:3-4 device to device, Micah 2:1 ; Mic 2:3 frowardness to frowardness, Psa 18:26 scoffing to scoffing. Pro 1:25-26
And with another tongue.] Lingua exotica, such as they shall be no whit the better for. See 1 Corinthians 14:21. We read of John Elmar, Bishop of London in Queen Elizabeth's reign, that on a time when he saw his audience grow dull in their attention to his sermon, he presently read unto them many verses of the Hebrew text, whereat they all started, admiring what use he meant to make thereof; then showed he them their folly, that whereas they neglected English, whereby they might be edified, they listened to Hebrew, whereof they understood not a word; and how justly God might bring in Popery again, - with Latin service, blind obedience, and dumb offices, - for their contempt of the gospel.