Isaiah 28:7-13

Expanded Bible

⁹ ·The Lord is trying to teach the people a lesson [^LWho is he teaching knowledge?];
    ·he is trying to make them understand his teachings [^LTo whom is he explaining the message?].
·But the people are like babies too old for breast milk [Those weaned from milk?],
    ·like those who no longer nurse at their mother’s breast [Those taken from the breast?].
¹⁰ So ·they make fun of the Lord’s prophet and say [or the Lord must repeat himself again and again; ^LFor it is]:
    “·A command here, a command there [^TPrecept upon precept, precept upon precept].
    ·A rule here, a rule there [^TLine upon line, line upon line; ^CHebrew: tsav latsav tsav latsav / kav lakav kav lakav; it may be the people mocking the words of the prophets as nonsense; or it may refer to God repeating himself because the people will not listen].
    A little lesson here, a little lesson there [^LA little there, a little there].”
¹¹ So the Lord will use ·strange words [mocking/stammering lips] and foreign ·languages [tongues]
    to speak to these people.
¹² God said to them,
“Here is a place of rest;
    let the ·tired people [weary] come and rest.
This is the place of peace.”
    But the people would not listen.
¹³ So the words of the Lord will be,
“·A command here, a command there [^TPrecept upon precept, precept upon precept].
    ·A rule here, a rule there [^TLine upon line, line upon line].
    ·A little lesson here, a little lesson there [^LA little there, a little there; ^Csee v. 10; God now uses the same words to mimic the foreign language of the Assyrian invaders].”
They will fall back and be ·defeated [broken];
    they will be ·trapped and captured [snared and taken].