Therefore the word of the LORD will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
Isaiah 28:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For it is [His prophets repeating over and over]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little. American Standard Version (1901) For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. Common English Bible It is “tsav letsav, tsav letsav; qav leqav, qav leqav,” a little of this, a little of that. Catholic Public Domain Version So then: command, and command again; command, and command again; expect, and expect again; a little here, and a little there. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little there. |
Therefore the word of the LORD will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.