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10 You don't even listen—
all you hear is senseless sound
    after senseless sound.[a]

11 (A) So, the Lord will speak
    to his people
in strange sounds
    and foreign languages.[b]
12 He promised you
perfect peace and rest,
    but you refused to listen.

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  1. 28.10 sound: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verses 9,10.
  2. 28.11 in … foreign languages: This probably refers to the language of the Assyrians.

10 For it is:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that[a];
    a little here, a little there.(A)

11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues(B)
    God will speak to this people,(C)
12 to whom he said,
    “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”;(D)
and, “This is the place of repose”—
    but they would not listen.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:10 Hebrew / sav lasav sav lasav / kav lakav kav lakav (probably meaningless sounds mimicking the prophet’s words); also in verse 13