Isaiah 28:13
Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, and yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
12This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear.
Cross References
Isaiah 6:10+ 6:10 Mat. 13. 15; Mark 4. 12. For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Isaiah 8:15Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall draw nigh, and men shall be taken securely.
Jeremiah 23:36And do ye name no more the burden of the Lord; for his own word shall be a man's burden.
Hosea 8:12I will write down a multitude of commands for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, even the beloved altars.
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 →