Isaiah 28:11 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 28:9-13

The prophet here complains of the wretched stupidity of this people, that they were unteachable and made no improvement of the means of grace which they possessed; they still continued as they were, their mistakes not rectified, their hearts not renewed, nor their lives reformed. Observe, I. What it was that their prophets and ministers designed and aimed at. It was to teach them knowledge, the knowledge of God and his will, and to make them understand doctrine, Isa. 28:9. This is God's way of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:11

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. Or "hath spoken" F19 So Gataker. ; as parents and nurses, in a lisping manner, and in a language and tone different from what they use in common, speak unto their children, accommodating themselves according to their capacities and weakness; and so it is a continuation of the method to be used in instructing the Jews, as being like children: or else these words are to be considered as a reason why, since they... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:7-13

The mockers and the prophet. Here, it appears, the scene changes to Jerusalem. And we should compare the picture of drunkenness and luxury with that in Amos 6:1-7 and Micah 2:11 . I. THE PRIESTS AND PROPHETS OF THE TIME . They are seen reeling and staggering in the midst of, or as they come from, their most sacred functions. It is a strong and indignant description of drunkenness in general (cf. Proverbs 20:1 ). What more humiliating than the spectacle! To have "put... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:9-13

Indocility. When God speaks man may well listen, whatsoever strains the Divine Teacher may employ. But man is often found to be, not only an inapt, but even an unwilling, scholar. Such were they who are here terribly rebuked. I. THE DESIGN OF GOD 'S TEACHING . God had been saying, "This is the rest," etc. ( Isaiah 28:12 ). The end of all God's instruction is to give rest to his human scholars. Peace was the promise of the old covenant ( Numbers 6:26 ; Numbers 25:12 ). ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:11

With stammering lips and with another tongue . The Assyrian language, though a Semitic idiom nearly allied to Hebrew, was sufficiently different to sound in the ears of a Jew like his own tongue mispronounced and barbarized. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:11-13

JUDAH 'S PUNISHMENT . God will retort on the Jews their scorn of his prophet, and, as they will not be taught by his utterances, which they find to be childish and unrefined, will teach them by utterances still more unrefined—those of the Assyrians, which will be quite as monotonous and quite as full of minutiae as Isaiah's. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:11

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 another tongue - a foreign language in a distant land. Since they refused to hearken to the messages which he sent to them, and which they regarded as adapted only to children, he would teach them in a manner that should be “much more” humiliating; he would make use of the barbarous language of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 28:11-12

Isaiah 28:11-12. 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 of a strange language, whom he will bring among them, and into whose power he will deliver them; will he speak to this people Seeing they will not hear him speaking by his prophets and ministers, in their own language, they shall hear their enemies speaking to them in a... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-29

28:1-33:24 HEZEKIAH AND THE ASSYRIANSBefore reading Chapters 28-33, readers should be familiar with the historical background found in the introduction under the heading ‘Judah’s new policies under Hezekiah’. Hezekiah reversed the policies of his father Ahaz. Whereas Ahaz sought help from Assyria to oppose Israel and Syria, Hezekiah sought help from Egypt to oppose Assyria. Isaiah opposed both policies alike. Faith in God, not reliance on foreign powers, is Judah’s only hope for survival. The... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 28:11

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 Assyrian language they were (alas!) soon to hear (Compare Isaiah 33:19 . Deuteronomy 28:49 ). He speak: i.e. by the Assyrians. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 28:9-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:7-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:9-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:11-13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 28:11-12

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-29

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 28:11

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