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11 Truly, with stammering lip
    and with alien tongue
he will speak to this people,
12     to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
    give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
    yet they would not hear.
13 Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them,
    “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
    line upon line, line upon line,
    here a little, there a little;”[a]
in order that they may go, and fall backward,
    and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:13 Meaning of Heb of this verse uncertain

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