Isaiah 28:7-11
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
7 These also reel with wine
and stagger with strong drink;
the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink,
they are confused with wine,
they stagger with strong drink;
they err in vision,
they stumble in giving judgement.
8 All tables are covered with filthy vomit;
no place is clean.
9 ‘Whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from milk,
those taken from the breast?
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.’[a]
11 Truly, with stammering lip
and with alien tongue
he will speak to this people,
Footnotes
- Isaiah 28:10 Meaning of Heb of this verse uncertain
Isaiah 28:13
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
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 backwards,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 28:13 Meaning of Heb of this verse uncertain
Isaiah 28:14
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 28:22
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
22 Now therefore do not scoff,
or your bonds will be made stronger;
for I have heard a decree of destruction
from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.
Isaiah 29:20
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
20 For the tyrant shall be no more,
and the scoffer shall cease to be;
all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—
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