Isaiah 28:9-13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁹ “Whom will he teach knowledge,
    and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from milk,
    those taken from the breast?^(A)
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
    line upon line, line upon line,
    here a little, there a little.”^[a](B)

¹¹ Truly, with stammering lip
    and with another tongue
he will speak to this people,^(C)
12     to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
    give rest to the weary,
and this is repose,”
    yet they would not hear.^(D)
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,”^[b]
in order that they may go and fall backward
    and be broken and snared and taken.^(E)