Isaiah 28:13

New English Translation

So the Lord’s word to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured.

Cross References

Psalm 69:22

May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

Isaiah 28:10

Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.

Isaiah 59:10

We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.

Hosea 6:5

Therefore, I will certainly cut you into pieces at the hands of the prophets; I will certainly kill you in fulfillment of my oracles of judgment; for my judgment will come forth like the light of the dawn.

Hosea 8:12

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!

Matthew 13:14

And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: ‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

Matthew 21:44

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

Romans 11:9

And David says, “Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.