Isaiah 28:11-17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹¹ Truly, with stammering lip
    and with another tongue
he will speak to this people,^(A)
12     to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
    give rest to the weary,
and this is repose,”
    yet they would not hear.^(B)
13 Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them,
    “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
    line upon line, line upon line,
    here a little, there a little,”^[a]
in order that they may go and fall backward
    and be broken and snared and taken.^(C)

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers
    who rule this people in Jerusalem.^(D)
15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
    and with Sheol we have an agreement;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through
    it will not come to us,
for we have made lies our refuge,
    and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;^(E)
16 therefore thus says the Lord God,
“See, I am laying^[b] in Zion a foundation stone,
    a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation:
    ‘One who trusts will not panic.’^(F)
17 And I will make justice the line
    and righteousness the plummet;
hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
    and waters will overwhelm the shelter.^(G)