Catholic Public Domain Version
"For with the speech of lips and with a different language, he will speak to this people. "
— Isaiah 28:11, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.”
“Nay, but bymen of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people; ”
“But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;”
“For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.”
“For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.”
“No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:”
“For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.”
For all the tables have been filled with vomit and filth, so much so that there was no place left.
To whom will he teach knowledge? And to whom will he grant an understanding of what is heard? To those who have been weaned from the milk, who have been pulled away from the breasts.
So then: command, and command again; command, and command again; expect, and expect again; a little here, and a little there.
For with the speech of lips and with a different language, he will speak to this people.
He said to them: “This is my rest. Refresh the weary,” and, “This is my refreshment.” And yet they were unwilling to listen.
And so, the word of the Lord to them will be: “Command, and command again; command, and command again; expect, and expect again; a little here, and a little there,” so that they may go forward and fall backward, and so that they may be broken and ensnared and captured.
Because of this, listen to the word of the Lord, you mocking men, who lord it over my people who are at Jerusalem.