Isaiah 33:19 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 33:19

You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

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ASV

Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst not understand.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah (1274)

Second, those who are eminent in eloquence, but not in wisdom: the people of profound speech: behold I will bring upon you a nation whose language you shall not know (Jer 5:15).

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

A fierce - That fierce and warlike people, whom thou hast seen with terror, near the walls of Jerusalem, thou shalt see no more. A people - A foreign nation, whose language is unknown to thee.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Thou shalt not see a fierce people - Or, rather, ‘this fierce and boasting people you shall not see.’ They shall not enter the city; but though they are advancing with so much confidence, they shall be suddenly cut, off and destroyed. The word rendered “fierce,” (נועז nô‛âz from נעז yâ‛az), probably means strong, or wicked. Lowth renders it, ‘barbarous people,’ as if it were לועז lô‛ēz. Michaelis also adopts this reading by supposing an error in transcribing, a change of the Hebrew letter נ (n) into the Hebrew letter ל (l).

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
עַ֥ם	'am	a people	H5971 →
נוֹעָ֖ז	no.'Az	barbarous	H3267 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תִרְאֶ֑ה	tir.'Eh	you will see	H7200 →
עַ֣ם	'am	a people	H5971 →
עִמְקֵ֤י	'im.Kei	[too] unintelligible of	H6012 →
שָׂפָה֙	sa.Fah	lip	H8193 →
מִשְּׁמ֔וֹעַ	mi.she.Mo.a'	for hearing	H8085 →
נִלְעַ֥ג	nil.'Ag	stammering of	H3932 →
לָשׁ֖וֹן	la.Shon	tongue	H3956 →
אֵ֥ין	'ein	there not	H369 →
בִּינָֽה׃	bi.Nah	[is] understanding	H998 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 28:11
Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:49
  The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 14:21
  It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 5:15
  Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose…
Through
Jeremiah 5:15
Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose…
leads to
- Jeremiah 4:16
  Warn the nations now! Proclaim to Jerusalem: “A besieging army comes from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.
- Isaiah 5:26
  He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!
- Isaiah 28:11
  Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
- Jeremiah 25:9
  behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents,…
Through
2 Kings 19:32
So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or…
leads to
- Isaiah 8:7–10
  the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.

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04Related verses

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06About Isaiah

Where the connections lead

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Commentary

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Related verses

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About Isaiah