Isaiah 28:12

This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11by reason of the contemptuous words of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,

13Therefore 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.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 14:11And the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

Isaiah 29:12And this book shall be given into the hands of a man that is unlearned, and one shall say to him, Read this; and he shall say, I am not learned.

Jeremiah 6:16Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in them.

Zechariah 7:11But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.

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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