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What does Isaiah 28:12 mean?
"to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary”; and “This is the refreshing”; yet they would not hear."
— Isaiah 28:12 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;
to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary”; and “This is the refreshing”; yet they would not hear.
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.
Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:
“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
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