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11 Now, with stammering lips
    and in an alien tongue,
he will speak to this people,
12     to whom he has said,
“This is the place for rest;
    give rest to the weary.
This is the place for repose.”
    However, they would not listen.
13 Therefore, to them the word of the Lord will be,
    “Command after command, command after command,
rule after rule, rule after rule,
    here a little, there a little.”

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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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