⁹ Thus says the Lord of hosts:
Glean^[a] thoroughly as a vine
    the remnant of Israel;
like a grape gatherer, pass your hand again
    over its branches.^(B)

¹⁰ To whom shall I speak and give warning,
    that they may hear?
See, their ears are closed;^[b]
    they cannot listen.
The word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;
    they take no pleasure in it.^(C)

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

¹¹ Truly, with stammering lip
    and with another tongue
he will speak to this people,^(C)
12     to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
    give rest to the weary,
and this is repose,”
    yet they would not hear.^(D)