Isaiah 33:19

You will no longer see the fierce people, 2 a people of a deep speech that you can’t sh'ma ·hear understand obey·, 2 with a strange language that you can’t understand. 1

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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

18Your heart will meditate on the terror. 2 Where is he who counted? 2 Where is he who weighed? 2 Where is he who counted the towers? 1

20Look at Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking], the city of our appointed festivals. 2 Your eyes will see Jerusalem [City of peace], a quiet habitation, 2 a tent that won’t be removed. 1 Its stakes will never be plucked up, 2 nor will any of its cords be broken. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:49Adonai will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you will not sh'ma ·hear understand obey·;

Isaiah 28:11But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;

Isaiah 37:37So Sennacherib king of Assyria [Level plain] departed, went away, teshuvah ·completely returned· to Nineveh [Offspring’s Habitation], and stayed there.

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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