Isaiah 33:19

Thou shalt no longer see a fierce people, 1 a people of unfathomable language that is incomprehensible, 1 of a stammering lashon, that thou canst not understand. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

18Thine lev shall ponder terror. 1 Where is the sofer (scribe)? 1 Where is he who weighs? + 33:18 for Assyrian tax collection 1 Where is he that counts the migdalim (towers)? 1

20Look upon Tziyon, the city of mo'adenu (our appointed times, festivals); 1 thine eynayim shall see Yerushalayim 1 a quiet naveh, 1 an ohel that shall not be taken down; 1 not one stake thereof shall ever be pulled up, 1 neither shall any of the ropes thereof be broken. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:49Hashem shall bring a nation against thee from afar, from the ketzeh ha'aretz, as swift as the nesher flieth; a nation whose lashon thou shalt not understand;

Isaiah 28:11For with stammering safah (lips) and with lashon acheret (another tongue, different tongue) 1 will He speak to HaAm Hazeh. 1

Isaiah 37:37So Sancheriv Melech Ashur departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineveh.

Ezekiel 3:5For thou art not sent to an Am Imkei Safah (a people of indecipherable language) and of obscure lashon, but to Bais Yisroel;

1 Corinthians 14:21In the Torah it stands written, KI BELA'AGEI SAFAH UVELASHON ACHERET YEDABER EL HAAM HAZEH…V'LO AVU SHMO'A (Then with ones of foreign lip and with strange tongue he will speak to this people… but they were not willing to listen), says the L-rd. + 14:21 Isa 28:11-12

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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