Isaiah 28:13
Therefore the Lord's message to them will become, “This blah and that blah, blah upon blah, and again blah and blah, and even more blah and blah, a bit here and a bit there,” so that they'll fall over backwards, and they'll be wounded, trapped, and captured.
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14So pay attention to the Lord's message, you scornful rulers who lead these people in Jerusalem.
Cross References
Psalms 69:22May the table set before them become a trap for them, a net that catches them, bringing punishment.
Isaiah 6:10Make the minds of this people insensitive; make their ears deaf and shut their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their minds, and repent and be healed.”
Isaiah 8:15Many people will stumble over them. They will fall and be broken. They will be trapped and caught.
Jeremiah 23:36Don't talk about “the burden of the Lord” anymore, because everybody has different ideas about this “burden,” perverting the words of the living God, the Lord Almighty, our God.
Hosea 8:12I wrote down for them the many aspects of my law, but they looked on them as foreign.
Matthew 21:44Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken, but it will completely crush anyone it falls upon.”
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 →