🕊️WEB · Isaiah 28:10

What does Isaiah 28:10 mean?

"For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little."

— Isaiah 28:10 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

7

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

8

For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

9

Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

10

For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

11

But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;

12

to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary”; and “This is the refreshing”; yet they would not hear.

13

Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

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