Isaiah 28:13

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Isaiah 28:13

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,”
so they go stumbling backward,
to be broken, trapped, and captured.

Matthew 21:44

[Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whoever it falls, it will grind him to powder!]”

Psalm 69:22

Let their table set before them be a snare,
and let it be a trap for their allies.

Isaiah 6:9-10

And He replied:

Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.

Isaiah 8:14-15

He will be a sanctuary;
but for the two houses of Israel,
He will be a stone to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,
and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28:10

For he says: “Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there.”

Jeremiah 23:36-38

But no longer refer to the burden of the Lord, for each man’s word becomes his burden and you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of Hosts, our God.

Hosea 6:5

This is why I have used the prophets
to cut them down;
I have killed them with the words of My mouth.
My judgment strikes like lightning.

Hosea 8:12

Though I were to write out for him
ten thousand points of My instruction,
they would be regarded as something strange.

Matthew 13:14

Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:

You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.

Romans 11:9

And David says:

Let their feasting become a snare and a trap,
a pitfall and a retribution to them.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?

1 Peter 2:7-8

So honor will come to you who believe, but for the unbelieving,

The stone that the builders rejected—
this One has become the cornerstone,

2 Peter 3:16

He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.

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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.

Precept upon precept

That

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Jeremiah 5:4

Bible References

Precept upon precept

For he says: “Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there.”

But no longer refer to the burden of the Lord, for each man’s word becomes his burden and you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of Hosts, our God.

This is why I have used the prophets
to cut them down;

I have killed them with the words of My mouth.
My judgment strikes like lightning.

Though I were to write out for him
ten thousand points of My instruction,
they would be regarded as something strange.

That

And He replied:

Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.

He will be a sanctuary;
but for the two houses of Israel,
He will be a stone to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,
and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Let their table set before them be a snare,
and let it be a trap for their allies.

Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:

You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.

[Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whoever it falls, it will grind him to powder!]”

And David says:

Let their feasting

become a snare and a trap,

a pitfall and a retribution to them.

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?

So honor will come to you who believe, but for the unbelieving,

The stone that the builders rejected—
this One has become the cornerstone,

General references

Then I thought:

They are just the poor;
they have played the fool.
For they don’t understand the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.