Isaiah 28:7-13 - Isaiah And The Drunken Prophets Of Judah

7 These people also stagger from wine and reel from strong drink. Priests and prophets stagger from strong drink; they're drunk from wine; they reel from strong drink, waver when seeing visions, and stumble when rendering decisions. 8 For all the tables are covered in vomit and filth, with no clean space left. 9 To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? To children just weaned from milk? To those just taken from the breast? 10 For it is: "Do this and do that, do this and do that, Line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there." 11 Very well, then, through the mouths of foreigners and foreign languages the LORD will speak to this people 12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place, so give rest to the weary"' and, "This is the place of repose" - but they would not listen.

13 So, then, the message from the LORD to them will become: "Do this and do that, do this and do that, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there," so that they will go, but fall backward, and be injured, snared, and captured.


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