Isaiah 28:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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,” in order that they may go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken.

Cross References

Psalm 69:22

Let their table be a trap for them, a snare for their allies.

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 like the blind along a wall, groping like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among the vigorous as though we were dead.

Hosea 6:5

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have killed them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.

Hosea 8:12

Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions, they are regarded as a strange thing.

Matthew 13:14

With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says: ‘You will indeed listen but never understand, and you will indeed look but never perceive.

Matthew 21:44

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

Romans 11:9

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

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the one group a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is qualified for these things?

2 Peter 3:16

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.