11 For with a stammering [a]tongue, and with a strange language shall he speak unto this people.

12 Unto whom [b]he said, [c]This is the rest: [d]give rest unto him that is weary, and this is the refreshing, but they would not hear.

13 Therefore shall the word of the [e]Lord be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line unto line, line unto line, there a little and there a little: that they may go and fall backward, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:11 Let one teach what he can, yet they shall no more understand him, than if he spake in a strange language.
  2. Isaiah 28:12 That is, the Prophet, whom God should send.
  3. Isaiah 28:12 This is the doctrine, whereupon ye ought to stay and rest.
  4. Isaiah 28:12 Show to them that are weary and have need of rest, what is the true rest.
  5. Isaiah 28:13 Because they will not receive the word of God, when it is offered, it cometh of their own malice, if after their hearts be so hardened, that they care not for it, as before, Isa. 6:9.

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