Isaiah 33:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.

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  • Isa 28:11 : 11 No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:
  • Deut 28:49-50 : 49 The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you; 50 A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young:
  • Jer 5:15 : 15 See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.
  • Ezek 3:5-6 : 5 For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel; 6 Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.
  • 2 Kgs 19:32 : 32 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it;
  • Exod 14:13 : 13 But Moses said, Keep where you are and have no fear; now you will see the salvation of the Lord which he will give you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again.
  • 1 Cor 14:21 : 21 In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

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  • 11 No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:

  • Ezek 3:5-6
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    5 For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;

    6 Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.

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    49 The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;

    50 A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young:

  • 15 See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

  • Isa 33:17-18
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    17 Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.

    18 Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?

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    3 And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.

    4 The man of sudden impulses will become wise in heart, and he whose tongue is slow will get the power of talking clearly.

  • 26 Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

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    33 The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

    34 So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.

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    65 And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:

    66 Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain:

  • 16 The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.

  • 21 He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

  • 20 Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken.

  • 14 Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

  • 26 And I will make your tongue fixed to the roof of your mouth, so that you have no voice and may not make protests to them: for they are an uncontrolled people.

  • 21 In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

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    36 And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.

    37 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

  • 21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

  • 3 For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you.

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    35 All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled.

    36 Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of surprise at you; you have become a thing of fear, you have come to an end for ever.

  • 9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

  • 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

  • 3 There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound.

  • 3 And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.

  • 19 All who have knowledge of you among the peoples will be overcome with wonder at you: you have become a thing of fear, and you will never be seen again.

  • 19 And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:

  • 12 But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

  • 14 And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

  • 2 A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak.

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    11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut:

    12 And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.

  • 4 But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.

  • 7 See, I am sending against you strange men, feared among the nations: they will let loose their swords against your bright wisdom, they will make your glory a common thing.

  • Isa 29:4-5
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    4 And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.

    5 And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

  • 5 As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.

  • 9 Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

  • 25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • 38 And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

  • 9 So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.

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    28 He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:

    29 You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

  • 12 Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of.