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They[a] say:
    Who is he trying to teach?
    Who needs his instruction?
    A baby who has just been weaned from milk?
    An infant just taken from the breast?
10 They say:
    Law by law, law by law,
    rule by rule, rule by rule,[b]
    a little here, a little there.
11 So the Lord will speak to this people
    with barbarous lips and in a foreign tongue.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:9 That is, the drunken priests and prophets who mock Isaiah
  2. Isaiah 28:10 The Hebrew text reads sav lasav sav lasav kav lakav kav lakav. It is possible that these are meaningless sounds imitating a baby’s babble and mocking the prophet’s words and rejecting God’s laws.