Isaiah 28:14

Therefore, hear a word of YHWH, you men of scorning, || Ruling this people that [is] in Jerusalem.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

In Context

13And to whom a word of YHWH has been, || Rule on rule, rule on rule, || Line on line, line on line, || A little here, a little there, || So that they go and have stumbled backward, || And been broken, and snared, and captured.

15Because you have said: “We have made a covenant with death, || And we have made a provision with Sheol, || An overflowing scourge, when it passes over, || Does not meet us, || Though we have made a lie our refuge, || And have been hidden in falsehood.”

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Cross References

Proverbs 3:34If He scorns the scorners, || Yet He gives grace to the humble.

Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of YHWH, you rulers of Sodom, || Give ear to the Law of our God, you people of Gomorrah,

Isaiah 5:9Do many houses not become a desolation by the weapons of YHWH of Hosts? Great and good without inhabitant!

Isaiah 29:20For the terrible one has ceased, || And the scorner has been consumed, || And all watching for iniquity have been cut off,

Ezekiel 16:35Therefore, O whore, hear a word of YHWH!

Acts 13:41See, you despisers, and wonder, and perish, because I work a work in your days, a work in which you may not believe, though anyone may declare [it] to you.”

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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