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New Testament
Isaiah 28:9-13
Who is he trying to teach?
Who needs his instruction?
A baby who has just been weaned from milk?
An infant just taken from the breast?
10They say:
Law by law, law by law,
a little here, a little there.
11So the Lord will speak to this people
with barbarous lips and in a foreign tongue.
12He said to them,
“This is the resting place.
Let the weary rest.
This is the place to be refreshed,”
but they would not listen.
13That is why to them the word of the Lord will be:
Law by law, law by law,
a little here, a little there.
As a result they will try to walk,
but they will fall backwards.
They will be hurt, trapped, and taken.
Footnotes
- 28:9 That is, the drunken priests and prophets who mock Isaiah
- 28:10 The Hebrew text reads sav lasav sav lasav kav lakav kav lakav. It is possible that these are meaningless sounds imitating a baby's babble and mocking the prophet's words and rejecting God's laws.
- 28:13 The Hebrew is the same as in verse 10, but now the Lord uses the words of the mockers as a warning about the foreign speech of the invading Assyrians.