Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding.
New American Standard Bible
A people of
Of a stammering tongue
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
a people whose speech is difficult to comprehend—
who stammer in a language that is not understood.
International Standard Version
No longer will you see those arrogant people, those people with their obscure speech you cannot comprehend, stammering in a language you cannot understand.
A Conservative Version
Thou shall not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou cannot comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou cannot understand.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
You will no longer see the fierce and insolent people,
A people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends,
Of a strange and stammering tongue which no one understands.
Bible in Basic English
Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt no more see the fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst comprehend, of a stammering tongue that cannot be understood.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not see a firm people, a people of a deep lip above,hearing; of a stammering tongue, of no understanding.
King James 2000
You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a more obscure speech than you can perceive; of a stammering tongue, that you can not understand.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You will not see [the] insolent people, [the] people {whose language is too obscure to understand}, [whose] stammering of tongue {cannot be understood}.
Modern King James verseion
You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than you can understand; of a foreign tongue that no one understands.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
There shalt thou not see a people of a strange tongue to have so diffused a language, that it may not be understood: neither so strange a speech but it shall be perceived.
NET Bible
You will no longer see a defiant people whose language you do not comprehend, whose derisive speech you do not understand.
New Heart English Bible
You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.
The Emphasized Bible
The fierce people, shalt thou not see, - The people of too deep a lip to be understood, of too barbarous a tongue for thee to comprehend.
Webster
Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
World English Bible
You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.
Interlinear
Ra'ah
Saphah
Shama`
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 33:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Glorious Future
18 Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where is he who is counting? Where is he who is weighing? Where is he who is counting the towers? 19 The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding. 20 See Zion, the city of our meetings, Thine eyes see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, A tent not taken down, Not removed are its pins for ever, And none of its cords are broken.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 28:11
For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.
Deuteronomy 28:49-50
'Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,
Jeremiah 5:15
Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation -- strong it is, a nation -- from of old it is, A nation -- thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh.
2 Kings 19:32
Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Concerning the king of Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city, Nor doth he shoot there an arrow, Nor doth he come before it with shield. Nor doth he pour out against it a mount.
Ezekiel 3:5-6
For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue art thou sent -- unto the house of Israel;
Exodus 14:13
And Moses saith unto the people, 'Fear not, station yourselves, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which He doth for you to-day; for, as ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, ye add no more to see them -- to the age;
1 Corinthians 14:21
in the law it hath been written, that, 'With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'