Isaiah 28:13

Modern English Version

So 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 might go and fall backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.

Cross References

Psalm 69:22

Let their table become a snare before them, and let their peace be a trap.

Isaiah 28:10

For He says, ‘Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.’ ”

Isaiah 59:10

We grope along the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the night; among those who are vigorous, we are as dead men.

Hosea 6:5

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets. I have killed them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like light.

Hosea 8:12

I have written for him the great things of My law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.

Matthew 13:14

In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: ‘By hearing, you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing, you will see and shall not perceive;

Matthew 21:44

Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces. But on whomever it falls, it will crush him.”

Romans 11:9

And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To the one we are the fragrance of death, which brings death, and to the other the fragrance of life, which brings life. Who is sufficient for these things?

2 Peter 3:16

As in all his letters, he writes about these things, in which some things are hard to understand, which the unlearned and unstable distort, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.