Isaiah 28:7-13 ▼

7 But these also reel through wine, And stagger through strong drink; The priest and the prophet reel through strong drink, They are confused because of wine, They stagger because of strong drink; They reel in vision, they totter in judgment.

8 For all tables are full of filthy vomit, and no place is clean.

9 Whom shall one teach knowledge? And whom shall one make to understand the message? Them that are weaned from the milk, Them that are drawn from the breasts?

10 For it is precept by precept, precept by precept, Line by line, line by line; Here a little, there a little.

11 For with stammering lips and with a strange tongue Shall it be spoken to this people;

12 To whom it was said: 'This is the rest, Give ye rest to the weary; And this is the refreshing'; Yet they would not hear.

13 And so the word of the LORD is unto them Precept by precept, precept by precept, Line by line, line by line; Here a little, there a little; That they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, And snared, and taken.