Study Desk

But they also have gone astray by wine, and have erred through fermented drink; priest and prophet have erred through fermented drink; they have been swallowed by wine; they strayed from fermented drink; they err in vision; they stumble in judgment;

for all tables are full of vomit and filth, without a clean place.

To whom shall He teach knowledge? And to whom shall He explain the message? Those weaned from milk, those moving from breasts?

For precept must be on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

For with stammering lip and other languages, He will speak to this people;

to whom He said, This is the rest; cause the weary to rest. Also, This is the repose. But they willed not to hear.

Yet the Word of Jehovah was to them, precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they might go, and stumble, and be broken, and snared, and taken.