13 Then the word of the Lord came to them:
“Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there,”[a][b]
so they go stumbling backward,
to be broken, trapped, and captured.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:13 Hb obscure
  2. Isaiah 28:13 The Lord quotes the mockers' words in v. 10 to represent the unintelligible language of the Assyrian invaders.

13 So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that;
    a little here, a little there(A)
so that as they go they will fall backward;
    they will be injured(B) and snared and captured.(C)

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10 We grope along a wall like the blind;
we grope like those without eyes.(A)
We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;
we are like the dead among those who are healthy.

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10 Like the blind(A) we grope along the wall,
    feeling our way like people without eyes.
At midday we stumble(B) as if it were twilight;
    among the strong, we are like the dead.(C)

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18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and if it falls on anyone, it will grind him to powder!”(A)

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18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”(A)

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32 Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works.[a] They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(A)

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  1. Romans 9:32 Other mss add of the law

32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(A)

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