Isaiah 28:11
For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.
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- 1 Cor 14:21 : 21 It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.
- Deut 28:49 : 49 The LORD will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
- Isa 33:19 : 19 You will no longer see a defiant people whose language you do not comprehend, whose derisive speech you do not understand.
- Jer 5:15 : 15 The LORD says,“Listen, nation of Israel! I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.
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- 1 Cor 14:21-233 verses83%
21It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.
22So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
23So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?
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19You will no longer see a defiant people whose language you do not comprehend, whose derisive speech you do not understand.
- Isa 28:12-132 verses77%
12In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.
13So the LORD’s message to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured.
- Isa 28:9-102 verses76%
9Who is the LORD trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!
10Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.
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4The mind that acts rashly will possess discernment and the tongue that stutters will speak with ease and clarity.
- 1 Cor 14:9-102 verses74%
9It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.
10There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.
- Ezek 3:4-63 verses74%
4He said to me,“Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.
5For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel–
6not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand– surely if I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!
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26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.
- Isa 29:11-133 verses74%
11To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say,“Read this,” he responds,“I can’t, because it is sealed.”
12Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say,“Read this,” he says,“I can’t read.”
13The Lord says,“These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.
- Ezek 3:26-272 verses73%
26I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.
27But when I speak with you, I will loosen your tongue and you must say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says.’ Those who listen will listen, but the indifferent will refuse, for they are a rebellious house.
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2For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.
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9Know for sure that I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the LORD’s name when they pray, and will worship him in unison.
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11The Lord Encourages Isaiah Indeed this is what the LORD told me quite forcefully. He warned me not to act like these people:
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9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’
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28But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.
- Ps 12:2-32 verses70%
2People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.
3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts!
- Jer 5:14-152 verses70%
14Because of that, the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, said to me,“Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up.”
15The LORD says,“Listen, nation of Israel! I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.
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7Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”
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28His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.
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8Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,
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7But listen to what I say to you and to all these people.
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27On that day you will be able to speak again; you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
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14He says,“Build it! Build it! Clear a way! Remove all the obstacles out of the way of my people!”
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28So tell them:‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the LORD their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore.
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11The LORD’s message came to me:
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3There is no actual speech or word, nor is its voice literally heard.
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26He lifts a signal flag for a distant nation, he whistles for it to come from the far regions of the earth. Look, they come quickly and swiftly.
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4The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
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39So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.
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11Then they told me:“You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”
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8And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?
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1The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.
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12So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”
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13So then, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.
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11both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs– we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!”
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16He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.
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14And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.
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9For these are rebellious people– they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s law.