Isaiah 28:7-13 ▼

7 These people also stagger from wine and reel from strong drink. Priests and prophets stagger from strong drink; they're drunk from wine; they reel from strong drink, waver when seeing visions, and stumble when rendering decisions.

8 For all the tables are covered in vomit and filth, with no clean space left.

9 To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? To children just weaned from milk? To those just taken from the breast?

10 For it is: |Do this and do that, do this and do that, Line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there.|

11 Very well, then, through the mouths of foreigners and foreign languages the LORD will speak to this people

12 to whom he said, |This is the resting place, so give rest to the weary|' and, |This is the place of repose|— but they would not listen.

13 So, then, the message from the LORD to them will become: |Do this and do that, do this and do that, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there,| so that they will go, but fall backward, and be injured, snared, and captured.