Isaiah 28:10

For rule on rule, rule on rule, || Line on line, line on line, || A little here, a little there,

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In The King James Version

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

In Context

9By whom does He teach knowledge? And by whom does He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,

11For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, || Does He speak to this people.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:15And YHWH, God of their fathers, sends to them by the hand of His messengers—rising early and sending—for He has had pity on His people and on His habitation,

Isaiah 5:4What [is there] to do still to My vineyard, || That I have not done in it? For what reason have I waited for the yielding of grapes, || And it yields [only] bad ones?

Jeremiah 11:7For I certainly testified against your fathers, || In the day of My bringing them up out of the land of Egypt—until this day, || Rising early and testifying, saying, Listen to My voice,

Matthew 21:34And when the season of the fruits came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive the fruits of it,

2 Timothy 3:7always learning, and never able to come to a knowledge of truth,

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 →

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