⁹ Thus says the Lord of hosts:
^(C)“They shall glean thoroughly as a vine
    the remnant of Israel;
like a grape gatherer pass your hand again
    over its branches.”
^10 (D)To whom shall I speak and give warning,
    that they may hear?
^(E)Behold, their ears are uncircumcised,
    ^(F)they cannot listen;
behold, ^(G)the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;
    they take no pleasure in it.

^9 (A)“To whom will he teach knowledge,
    and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
    those taken from the breast?
¹⁰ For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
    line upon line, line upon line,
    here a little, there a little.”

^11 (B)For by people of strange lips
    and with a foreign tongue
the Lord will speak to this people,
¹²     to whom he has said,
^(C)“This is rest;
    give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
    yet they would not hear.