Isaiah 28:13

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Summary

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.

Precept upon precept

That

General references

Jeremiah 5:4

Bible References

Precept upon precept

For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. ...

And the burden of Jehovah shall ye mention no more; for every man's own word shall be his burden: for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of Jehovah of hosts, our God.

Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and my judgment goeth forth as the light.

I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.

That

And he said, Go; and thou shalt say unto this people, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive.

And he will be for a sanctuary; and for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Let their table become a snare before them, and their very welfare a trap;

and in them is filled up the prophecy of Esaias, which says, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and beholding ye shall behold and not see;

And he that falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who is sufficient for these things?

To you therefore who believe is the preciousness; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders cast away as worthless, this is become head of the corner,

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

General references

And I said, Surely these are the wretched ones, they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.