‘Law after law, law after law, line after line, line after line, a little here, a little there.’
Isaiah 28:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The word of the Lord will come to them: ‘Law after law, law after law, line after line, line after line, a little here, a little there,’ so they go stumbling backwards, to be broken, trapped, and captured. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
‘Law after law, law after law, line after line, line after line, a little here, a little there.’
We grope along a wall like the blind; we grope like those without eyes. We stumble at noon as though it were twilight; we are like the dead among those who are healthy.
This is why I have used the prophets to cut them down; , I have killed them with the words from my mouth. My judgement strikes like lightning.
Though I were to write out for him ten thousand points of my instruction, they would be regarded as something strange.
Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: You will listen and listen, but never understand; you will look and look, but never perceive.
Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will shatter him.’
And David says, Let their table become a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a retribution to them.
To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. Who is adequate for these things?
He speaks about these things in all his letters. There are some things hard to understand in them. The untaught and unstable will twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.