Isaiah 28:10
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”
- KJV
- For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
- WEB
- For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
- ASV
- For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.
- DARBY
- For [it is] precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.
- BLB
- For, “Order on order, order on order; line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”
- ÅB
- For bud på bud[^6], bud på bud, regel på regel, regel på regel, litt her, litt der.
- OTB
- For det er: Bud på bud, bud på bud, linje på linje, linje på linje, litt her, litt der."
- B1930
- For bud på bud, bud på bud, regel på regel, regel på regel, litt her, litt der. / < nemlig: kommer han med.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 28:13
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Read in context2 Timothy 3:7
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Read in contextJeremiah 11:7
For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Read in contextJeremiah 25:3–7
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:29–30
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Read in contextHebrews 5:12
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:1–6
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
Read in context2 Chronicles 36:15–16
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
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