Isaiah 28:9

Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

8For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

10For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”

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Cross References

Psalms 50:17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

Proverbs 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Isaiah 30:10They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

Isaiah 48:17Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.

Isaiah 53:1Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:2-9

Ephraim Reproved and Threatened; The Punishment of Ephraim; ( b. c. 725.) 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: 4 And… Read the whole commentary →

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