So the words from God were like a foreign language: {\cf2\super [257]}
Isaiah 8:15 - Easy To Read Version (Many people will fall over this rock. Those people will fall and be broken. They will be trapped and caught.) 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. |
So the words from God were like a foreign language: {\cf2\super [257]}
Because of those things, the Lord my Master says, “I will put a rock—a cornerstone—in the ground in Zion. {\cf2\super [259]} This will be a very precious stone. {\cf2\super [260]} Everything will be built on this very important rock. Any person that trusts \{in that rock\} will not be disappointed.
We are like people without eyes.\par We walk into walls like blind people.\par We stumble and fall like it is night.\par Even in the daylight we can’t see.\par At noontime we fall like dead men.\par
There will be only enough milk for that person to eat butter. Every person in the country will eat butter and honey. {\cf2\super [92]}
So, this is what the Lord says:\par “I will give the people of Judah problems.\par They will be like stones\par that make people fall.\par Fathers and sons will stumble over them.\par Friends and neighbors will die.”\par
Stay away from the Pharisees. {\cf2\super [208]} They lead the people, but they are like blind men leading other blind men. And if a blind man leads another blind man, then both men will fall into a hole.”
The person that falls on this stone will be broken. And if the stone falls on a person, then it will crush that person.” {\cf2\super [302]}
After Jesus said these things, many of his followers left him. They stopped following Jesus.
Why not? Because they tried to make themselves right by the things they did. They did not trust in God to make them right. They fell over the stone that makes people fall.
But this is the message we tell everyone: Christ was killed on a cross. This message is a big problem to the Jews. And the non-Jews think it is foolish.