Bible verse
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.
Isaiah 28:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 28.
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.
15 For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
16 So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
KJV
To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
ASV
to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
ERV
to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
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