Isaiah 33:19

The barbarous people shalt thou not see any more, the people of a speech too obscure to be understood, of a stammering tongue, without meaning.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

18Thy heart shall meditate [on past] terror. “Where is who wrote down? where is he that weighed? where is he that counted the towers?”

20Look on Zion, the town of our solemn assemblies; thy eyes shall see Jerusalem as an undisturbed residence, a tent that shall not be struck for removal; not one of the stakes of which shall ever be moved, and all the cords of which shall never be torn loose.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:49The Lord will bring up against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle rusheth down; a nation whose tongue thou wilt not understand;

Isaiah 28:11For [as] with stammering lips and a foreign tongue will he speak to this people;

Isaiah 37:37And Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Ezekiel 3:5For not to a people of an obscure speech and of a difficult tongue art thou sent, but to the house of Israel;

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 33:14-24

The Forebodings of Hypocrites; Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 710.) 13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears… Read the whole commentary →

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