Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Isaiah 28:13 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition 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. 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. |
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense unto them:
to the one we are the savor of death unto death; and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.