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:
16therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone] of sure foundation: he who believes shall not be in haste.
