Isaiah 28:12-14

Complete Jewish Bible

¹² He once told this people, “It’s time to rest,
the exhausted can rest, now you can relax” —
but they wouldn’t listen.
¹³ So now the word of Adonai for them comes
“precept by precept, precept by precept,
line by line, line by line,
a little here, a little there,”
so that when they walk, they stumble backward,
and are broken, trapped and captured!
¹⁴ So listen to the word of Adonai, you scoffers,
composing taunts for this people in Yerushalayim: