Isaiah 28:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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] blah-blah upon blah-blah, blah-blah upon blah-blah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, a little here, a little there.

But you shall not mention the burden of Yahweh, for the burden is to each one his word, and so you twist the words of [the] living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God

Therefore, I have hewn [them] by [the] prophets; I have killed them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth like the light.

I write for him myriads of my instruction; they are regarded as a strange thing.

That

And he said, "Go and say to this people, 'Keep on listening and do not comprehend! And keep on looking and do not understand!'

And he will become like a sanctuary and a stumbling-stone, and like a stumbling-rock for the two houses of Israel, like a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Let their table before them be a trap, and their [times of] peace a snare.

and with reference to them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says, "{You will listen carefully} and will never understand, and {you will look closely} and will never perceive.

And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and [the one] on whom it falls--it will crush him!"

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them;

to those on the one hand an odor from death to death, [and] to those on the other hand a fragrance from life to life. And who [is] qualified for these [things]?

Therefore the honor [is] for you who believe, but for those who refuse to believe, "The stone that the builders rejected, this one has become {the cornerstone},"

as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.

General references

Then I said, "[They are] just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.