Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
11. For with stammering lips. {Bogus footnote} Some supply, that “it is as if one should say;” but that is superfluous. I therefore view these words as relating to God, who became, as the Prophet tells us, a barbarian {Bogus footnote} to a people without understanding.
The prophet here complains of the wretched stupidity of this people, that they were unteachable and made no improvement of the means of grace which they possessed; they still continued as they were, their mistakes not rectified, their hearts not renewed, nor their lives reformed. Observe, I. What it was that their prophets and ministers designed and aimed at.
Commenting on Isaiah 28:9-13
To whom he said,.... Either the Lord himself, or the prophet Isaiah; or rather the Lord by him, and other prophets; so the Targum, "to whom the prophets said;'' that is, the true prophets of the Lord said to the people, or to the priests and other prophets; or Christ and his apostles, as follows: This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary...