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

Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.

You must no longer say that the Lord's message is burdensome. For what is 'burdensome' really pertains to what a person himself says. You are misrepresenting the words of our God, the living God, the Lord who rules over all.

Therefore, I will certainly cut you into pieces at the hands of the prophets; I will certainly kill you in fulfillment of my oracles of judgment; for my judgment will come forth like the light of the dawn.

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!

That

He said, "Go and tell these people: 'Listen continually, but don't understand! Look continually, but don't perceive!'

He will become a sanctuary, but a stone that makes a person trip, and a rock that makes one stumble -- to the two houses of Israel. He will become a trap and a snare to the residents of Jerusalem.

May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: 'You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed."

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

to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.

General references

I thought, "Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.