Bible Verses About Confusion of Languages

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.

In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.

Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab–shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

Then Rab–shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.

If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.