With stammering lips
Assyrian speech
“By men of strange lips” Jehovah will speak Assyrian to them; and with a more frightful iteration than the prophet used. (A. B.Davidson, LL. D.)
A great moral principle
We gather from Isaiah that God speaks twice to men, first in words and then by deeds, but both times very simply and plainly. (G. A. Smith, D. D.)
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 by a...
3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...
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 pronoun...
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 the Assyri...
Isaiah parries the gibe with a terrible threat. Jehovah is about to employ a more uncouth language, to which their mocking description will fully apply, viz., the harsh barbarous accents of the Assyri...
The occasion of this remarkable encounter was probably a feast held to celebrate the renunciation of allegiance to Assyria. Isaiah has surprised the drunkards over their cups and administered some suc...
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 go,_ &c. T...
V. EMANCIPATION NOT FROM EGYPT Chapter S 28 - 35 A. FOUNDATION THAT IS FIRM, Chapter S 28-29 1. STUPIDITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:1-13 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fa...
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 ("residue...
Isaiah's retort, Jehovah will teach them through a foreign invader. RV 'Nay, but by men of strange lips and with another tongue,' etc....
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 the...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...
The leaders have not been responsible. They have disappointed their nation. And the result will be that they hear even more strange sounds. An enemy that speaks a strange language will carry off many...
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 sha...
כִּ֚י בְּ לַעֲגֵ֣י שָׂפָ֔ה וּ בְ לָשֹׁ֖ון
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 Assyrian...
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 because it...
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 revelation...
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....
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 an...
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 tells us, a ba...
Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...
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 com...
_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 G...
_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 people...
For with stammering lips and another tongue will He, namely, Jehovah, SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE, namely, by a foreign and hostile people, whose language would indeed seem strange and barbarous to them, the...
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. Aha...
STAMMERING LIPS: _ Heb._ stammerings of lip WILL HE SPEAK: Or, he hath spoken...
5-15 The prophet next turns to Judah, whom he calls the residue of his people. Happy are those alone, who glory in the Lord of hosts himself. Hence his people get wisdom and strength for every servic...
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 childre...
Isaiah 28:11 stammering H3934 lips H8193 another H312 tongue H3956 speak H1696 (H8762) people H5971 with -...
HIS OPPONENT MOCK ISAIAH'S TEACHING (ISAIAH 28:9). 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. But his rep...
CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...
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. _Maun...
SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance
Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...
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....