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Every table is covered with vomit.
    There is not a clean place anywhere.

The Lord is trying to teach the people a lesson.
    He is trying to make them understand his teachings.
But the people are like little babies.
    They are like babies who just nursed at their mother’s breast.
10 So they make fun of the Lord’s prophet and say:
    “A command here, a command there.
    A rule here, a rule there.
    A lesson here, a lesson there.”

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All the tables are covered with vomit(A)
    and there is not a spot without filth.

“Who is it he is trying to teach?(B)
    To whom is he explaining his message?(C)
To children weaned(D) from their milk,(E)
    to those just taken from the breast?
10 For it is:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that[a];
    a little here, a little there.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:10 Hebrew / sav lasav sav lasav / kav lakav kav lakav (probably meaningless sounds mimicking the prophet’s words); also in verse 13

For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

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For all tables are full of vomit and filth;
No place is clean.

“Whom(A) will he teach knowledge?
And whom will he make to understand the message?
Those just weaned from milk?
Those just drawn from the breasts?
10 (B)For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little.”

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