Isaiah 28:12
Good News Translation
He offered rest and comfort to all of you, but you refused to listen to him.

New Revised Standard Version
to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear.

Contemporary English Version
He promised you perfect peace and rest, but you refused to listen.

New American Bible
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is my refreshing: and they would not hear.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is my refreshing: and they would not hear.

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Isaiah 30:15 For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you return and be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in hope shall your strength be. And you would not:

2 Chronicles 14:11 And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no difference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help us, O Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name we are come against this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man prevail against thee.

2 Chronicles 16:8,9 Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in chariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because thou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand? . . .

Jeremiah 6:16 Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.

Matthew 11:28,29 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. . . .

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Psalm 81:11-13 But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. . . .

Jeremiah 44:16 As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee:

Zechariah 7:11,14 But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear. . . .

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

Context
Judgment on Ephraim
11For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people. 12To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is my refreshing: and they would not hear.13And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.…
Cross References
Matthew 11:28
Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

Matthew 11:29
Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.

Isaiah 11:10
In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious.

Isaiah 30:15
For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you return and be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in hope shall your strength be. And you would not:

Isaiah 32:17
And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.

Isaiah 32:18
And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.

Jeremiah 6:16
Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.

Isaiah 28:11
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