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(A)Whom would He instruct in knowledge,
And whom would He provide understanding about the report?
Those just (B)weaned from milk?
Those just taken from the breast?
10 For He says,
[a](C)Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there.’”
11 Indeed, He will speak to this people
Through (D)stammering lips and a foreign tongue,
12 He who said to them, “Here is (E)rest, give rest to the weary,”
And, “Here is repose,” but they would not listen.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:10 Heb Sav lasav, sav lasav, Kav lakav, kav lakav, Ze’ er sham, ze’ er sham; These Hebrew monosyllables, imitating the babbling of a child, mock the prophet’s preaching

O Yahweh, do not (A)Your eyes look for faithfulness?
You have (B)struck them,
But they did not [a]weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they (C)refused to receive discipline.
They have (D)made their faces stronger than rock;
They have refused to [b]repent.

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  1. Jeremiah 5:3 Or become sick
  2. Jeremiah 5:3 Lit return

(A)Heed discipline, O Jerusalem,
Lest (B)My soul become disgusted at you,
Lest I make you a desolation,
A land not inhabited.”

Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“They will (C)thoroughly glean as the vine the (D)remnant of Israel;
Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer
Over the branches.”
10 To whom shall I speak and give warning
That they may hear?
Behold, their (E)ears are uncircumcised,
And they cannot give heed.
Behold, (F)the word of Yahweh has become a reproach to them;
They have no delight in it.

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33 And they have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, (A)rising up early and teaching, they would not listen [a]and receive discipline.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 32:33 Lit to