The Meaning of Isaiah 28:11 Explained

Isaiah 28:11

KJV: For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

YLT: For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.

Darby: For with stammering lips and a strange tongue will he speak to this people;

ASV: Nay, but by men of'strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;

KJV Reverse Interlinear

For with stammering  lips  and another  tongue  will he speak  to this people. 

What does Isaiah 28:11 Mean?

Context Summary

Isaiah 28:1-13 - The Decay Of An Intemperate People
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 was disgraced by the national drunkenness. See Amos 4:1. So corrupted was she by strong drink and its attendant evils that the Assyrian invader would plunder her as a man gathers ripe figs. But to Judah, that is, the remnant, the Lord would be a crown or garland, not of pride but of glory. His beauty would not be as a fading flower, but a lasting diadem. What wine is to the sensuous man, that God is to the spiritual. See Ephesians 5:18. You that have to form right judgments, and you that have to turn the battle from the gate, will find all your need in Him. In Isaiah 28:7-8 we have a terrible picture of widespread effects of strong drink; and in Isaiah 28:9-10 the prophet recites the ribald remarks addressed to himself by the roisterers of those evil days. He replies that God would Himself answer them by the stern accents of the Assyrian tongue, which would sound like stammering, Isaiah 28:11; and this would befall them because they would not need the wooing accents of His love, Isaiah 28:12. [source]

Chapter Summary: Isaiah 28

1  The prophet threatens Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness
5  The residue shall be advanced in the kingdom of Christ
7  He rebukes their error
9  Their unwillingness to learn
14  And their security
16  Christ the sure foundation is promised
17  Their security shall be tried
23  They are incited to the consideration of God's providence

What do the individual words in Isaiah 28:11 mean?

For with stammering lips and tongue another He will speak to people this
כִּ֚י בְּלַעֲגֵ֣י שָׂפָ֔ה וּבְלָשׁ֖וֹן אַחֶ֑רֶת יְדַבֵּ֖ר אֶל־ הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה

בְּלַעֲגֵ֣י  with  stammering 
Parse: Preposition-b, Adjective, masculine plural construct
Root: לָעֵג  
Sense: mocking.
שָׂפָ֔ה  lips 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׂפָה  
Sense: lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding.
וּבְלָשׁ֖וֹן  and  tongue 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Noun, common singular
Root: לָשֹׁון  
Sense: tongue.
אַחֶ֑רֶת  another 
Parse: Adjective, feminine singular
Root: אַחֵר  
Sense: another, other, following.
יְדַבֵּ֖ר  He  will  speak 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
הָעָ֥ם  people 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: עַם 
Sense: nation, people.
הַזֶּֽה  this 
Parse: Article, Pronoun, masculine singular
Root: זֶה  
Sense: this, this one, here, which, this … that, the one … the other, another, such.

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