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11 (A) So, the Lord will speak
    to his people
in strange sounds
    and foreign languages.[a]
12 He promised you
perfect peace and rest,
    but you refused to listen.
13 Now his message to you
will be senseless sound
    after senseless sound.[b]
Then you will fall backwards,
    injured and trapped.

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Footnotes

  1. 28.11 in … foreign languages: This probably refers to the language of the Assyrians.
  2. 28.13 Now … sound: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues(A)
    God will speak to this people,(B)
12 to whom he said,
    “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”;(C)
and, “This is the place of repose”—
    but they would not listen.
13 So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that;
    a little here, a little there(D)
so that as they go they will fall backward;
    they will be injured(E) and snared and captured.(F)

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