Bible verse
For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”
Isaiah 28:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 28.
6 a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.
7 These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
8 For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
9 Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?
10 For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”
11 Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
12 to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.
13 Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
14 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
KJV
For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:
ASV
For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.
ERV
For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.
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