Isa 28:11, Jer 5:15, Eze 3:5-6, 1Cor 14:21 | ESV | STEP | For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people ,

Isaiah 28:11

11 ^aFor by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the Lord will speak to this people,

Jeremiah 5:15

15 ^bBehold, I am bringing against you
a nation from afar, O house of Israel,

declares the Lord.
It is an enduring nation;
it is an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know,
^cnor can you understand what they say.

Ezekiel 3:5-6

5 For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel— 6 not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. ^dSurely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you.

1 Corinthians 14:21

21 ^eIn the Law it is written, ^f“By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”