Holy Scripture

Isaiah 28:11

A church father on this verse
“They spoke with strange tongues and not those of their native land; and the wonder was great, a language spoken by those who had not learned it. And the sign is to them that do not believe, not to them that believe, that it may be an accusation of the unbelievers, as it is written, "With other tongues and other lips w…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — ON PENTECOST, ORATION 41:15

Source: Septuagint

Original

11by reason of the contemptuous words of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,

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In context

9To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message? even to those that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.

10Expect thou affliction on affliction, hope upon hope: yet a little, and yet a little,

— Isaiah 28:11 —

12This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear.

13Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, and yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.

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