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And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

[a]Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the [b]message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; [c]line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.

11 [d]Nay, but by men of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people; 12 to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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  1. Isaiah 28:9 Or, Whom shall he teach . . . and whom shall he make . . . breasts. For etc.
  2. Isaiah 28:9 Or, report
  3. Isaiah 28:10 Or, rule
  4. Isaiah 28:11 Or, For with stammering lips