Isaiah 28:13
And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command again; command, command again: expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
14Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule over my people that is in Jerusalem.
Cross References
Psalms 69:22And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Isaiah 6:10Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.
Isaiah 8:15And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.
Jeremiah 23:36And the burden of the Lord shall be mentioned no more, for every man's word shall be his burden: for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.
Hosea 8:12I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.
Matthew 21:44And whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:10-14
The Degeneracy of Judah. ( b. c. 725.) 9 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: 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.… Read the whole commentary →