Isaiah 28:7-13
International Standard Version
7 These people also[a] stagger from wine
and reel from strong drink.
Priests and prophets stagger from strong drink;
they’re drunk from[b] wine;
they reel from strong drink,
waver when seeing visions,
and stumble when rendering decisions.
8 For all the tables are covered in vomit and filth,
with no clean[c] space left.
Misuse of God’s Word
9 To whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
To children just weaned from milk?
To those just taken from the breast?
10 For it is: “Do this and do that,
do this and do that,
Line upon line, line upon line,
a little here, a little there.”
11 Very well, then, through the mouths of foreigners[d]
and foreign languages
the Lord will speak to this people
12 to whom he said,
“This is the resting place,
so give rest to the weary”’
and,
“This is the place of repose”—
but they would not listen.
13 So, then, the message from the Lord to them will become:
“Do this and do that,
do this and do that,
line upon line,
line upon line,
a little here,
a little there,”
so that they will go,
but fall backward,
and be injured, snared, and captured.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 28:7 1QIsaa lacks people also; MT lacks people
- Isaiah 28:7 Lit. are devoured by
- Isaiah 28:8 1QIsaa MT lack clean
- Isaiah 28:11 Or through foreign lips
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