Isaiah 28:9

⁷ These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

⁸ For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?

¹⁰ For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”

¹¹ Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

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: Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?
KJV: 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.
WEB: Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
ASV: Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
DARBY: Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the report? Them that are weaned from the milk, withdrawn from the breasts?
BLB: [To] whom will He teach knowledge? And [to] whom will he explain the message? Those weaned from milk? Those removed from the breasts?

ÅB: Hvem[^5] vil han lære kunnskap, og hvem vil han få til å forstå budskap? Er det barn som nettopp er avvent fra melken, tatt bort fra brystet?
OTB: "Hvem prøver han å lære kunnskap, og hvem forklarer han budskapet? Til barn nettopp avvent fra melk, til dem nettopp tatt fra brystet?
B1930: Hvem vil han lære kunnskap, og hvem vil han få til å forstå budskap? Er det barn som nettop er avvent fra melken, tatt bort fra brystet? / < i dette og det følgende vers innføres de drukne førere talende.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 131:2
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
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Jeremiah 6:10
To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
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John 12:38
This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
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Matthew 21:15–16
But the chief priests and scribes were indignant when they saw the wonders He performed and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David!”
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John 3:19
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
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Isaiah 53:1
Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
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1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
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