Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.
Isaiah 28:13 - Revised Standard Version Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them [merely monotonous repeatings of]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little–that they may go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and taken. American Standard Version (1901) Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. Common English Bible So the LORD’s word will be for them: “tsav letsav, tsav letsav; qav leqav, qav leqav,” a little of this, a little of that. So that they will go and stagger backward, they will be broken, snared, and captured. Catholic Public Domain Version And so, the word of the Lord to them will be: "Command, and command again; command, and command again; expect, and expect again; a little here, and a little there," so that they may go forward and fall backward, and so that they may be broken and ensnared and captured. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command again; command, command again: expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. |
Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.
For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
We grope for the wall like the blind, we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: ‘You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive.
And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a retribution for them;
to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.