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11 [a]Yes, with stammering lips and in a strange language
    he will speak to this people,(A)
12     to whom he said:
“This is the resting place,
    give rest to the weary;
And this is the place of repose”—
    but they refused to hear.(B)
13 So for them the word of the Lord shall be:
    “Command on command, command on command,
Rule on rule, rule on rule,
    here a little, there a little!”
So that when they walk, they shall stumble backward,
    broken, ensnared, and captured.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 28:11 God will answer the mockers and defend Isaiah. Strange language: spoken by the invading army.

11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues(A)
    God will speak to this people,(B)
12 to whom he said,
    “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”;(C)
and, “This is the place of repose”—
    but they would not listen.
13 So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that;
    a little here, a little there(D)
so that as they go they will fall backward;
    they will be injured(E) and snared and captured.(F)

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