Isaiah 28:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹³ Therefore shall the word of the LORD 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ 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)

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

¹³ 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.

Isaiah 28:13 Cross References

Psalm 69:22

Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.

Isaiah 28:10

For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.

Isaiah 59:10

We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

Hosea 6:5

Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgements are as the light that goeth forth.

Hosea 8:12

Though I write for him my law in ten thousand precepts, they are counted as a strange thing.

Matthew 13:14

And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

Matthew 21:44

And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.

Romans 11:9

And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the one a savour from death unto death; to the other a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

2 Peter 3:16

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.