Isaiah 28:9-14

9“Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts?

10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little.”

11For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people,

12To whom He said, “This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,” And, “This is the refreshing”; Yet they would not hear.

13But the word of the Lord was to them, “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little,” That they might go and fall backward, and be broken And snared and caught.

14Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,