28:11
The oh-so sophisticated priests and prophets (the elite of their day) objected to the clear and simple teaching of Isaiah, so God would speak to His people with “foreign lips and strange tongues”. Notice that it is “God will speak to His people”. In rejecting Isaiah they were not rejecting the teaching of a man, but the teaching of God Himself. “Strange tongues” may have some relation to the gift of tongues in the New Testament, though I do not think we should press this too far. The “foreign lips” could be a reference to their going into exile, where they would be taught by foreign voices. We might also see a looking forward to God using Gentiles to preach the gospel to Israel.
28:12,13
God was judging Israel, but it was not as if they had not had the chance of peace. God had told them where to find rest (in Himself), but they would not listen. Jesus calls all who are weary back to Himself, promising to give us rest. But as they repeatedly rejected God’s call, the word of the Lord would become nonsense to them. It is difficult to get an exact interpretation of this verse, but the upshot of it all is that the people would be injured, snared and captured. Repeated rejection of the word of God is a dangerous thing to do.
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