13 Then the word of the Lord came to them:
“Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there,”[a][b]
so they go stumbling backward,
to be broken, trapped, and captured.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:13 Hb obscure
  2. Isaiah 28:13 The Lord quotes the mockers' words in v. 10 to represent the unintelligible language of the Assyrian invaders.

10 We grope along a wall like the blind;
we grope like those without eyes.(A)
We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;
we are like the dead among those who are healthy.

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18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and if it falls on anyone, it will grind him to powder!”(A)

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32 Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works.[a] They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:32 Other mss add of the law

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