Isaiah 28:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.

Cross References

Psalm 69:22

Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

Isaiah 28:10

For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.

Isaiah 59:10

We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.

Hosea 6:5

So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

Hosea 8:12

Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

Matthew 13:14

And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

Matthew 21:44

Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.

Romans 11:9

And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:

2 Corinthians 2:16

To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

2 Peter 3:16

And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.