Isaiah 28:10
Good News Translation
He is trying to teach us letter by letter, line by line, lesson by lesson."

New Revised Standard Version
For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”

Contemporary English Version
You don't even listen--all you hear is senseless sound after senseless sound.

New American Bible
For he says, ‘Command on command, command on command, rule on rule, rule on rule, here a little, there a little!’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there.

for precept

Isaiah 28:13 And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Isaiah 5:4 What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes?

Deuteronomy 6:1-6 These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it: . . .

2 Chronicles 36:15,16 And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place. . . .

Nehemiah 9:29,30 And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt proudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. . . .

Jeremiah 11:7 For protesting I conjured your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt even to this day: rising early I conjured them, and said: Hearken ye to my voice:

Jeremiah 25:3-7 From the thirteenth year of Josias the son of Ammon king of Juda until this day: this is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising before day, and speaking, and you have not hearkened. . . .

Matthew 21:34-41 And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof. . . .

Philippians 3:1 As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not wearisome, but to you is necessary.

2 Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 5:12 For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

must be.

Context
Judgment on Ephraim
9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are drawn away from the breasts. 10For command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there.11For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:15
And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place.

Nehemiah 9:30
And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the lands.

Isaiah 28:9
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