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.
Isaiah 8:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be snared and captured. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And many among them shall stumble thereon; and they shall fall and be broken, and be snared and taken. American Standard Version (1901) And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. Common English Bible Many of them will stumble and fall, and be broken, snared, and captured. Catholic Public Domain Version And very many of them will stumble and fall, and they will be broken and entangled and seized. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared and taken. |
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.
Therefore the Lord God said: ‘Look, I have laid a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will be unshakable. ,
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.
and from the abundant milk they give he will eat curds, for every survivor in the land will eat curds and honey.
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people; fathers and sons together will stumble over them; friends and neighbours will also perish.
Leave them alone! They are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.’
Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will shatter him.’
From that moment many of his disciples turned back and no longer accompanied him.
Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.