Isaiah 28:7-13

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁷ These also stagger because of wine
and stumble under the influence of beer:
priest and prophet stagger because of beer,
they are confused by wine.^(A)
They stumble because of beer,
they are muddled in their visions,
they stumble in their judgments.
⁸ Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit;
there is no place without a stench.
⁹ Who is he^[a] trying to teach?
Who is he^[b] trying to instruct?
Infants^[c] just weaned from milk?
Babies^[d] removed from the breast?
¹⁰ For he says: “Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there.”^[e][f]
11 So He will speak to this people
with stammering speech
and in a foreign language.^(B)
12 He had said to them:
“This is the place of rest,
let the weary rest;^(C)
this is the place of repose.”
But they would not listen.

¹³ Then the word of the Lord came to them:
“Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there,”^[g][h]
so they go stumbling backward,
to be broken, trapped, and captured.^(D)