9Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
10For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
11No, but by [men of] strange lips and with another language will he speak to this people;
12to whom he said, This is the rest, give you rest to him who is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13Therefore shall the word of Yahweh 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, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14Why hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:
15Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
