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And these also reel with wine and stagger from intoxicating drink: The priest and the prophet reel with intoxicating drink, They are confused by wine, they stagger from intoxicating drink; They reel while having visions, They stagger when rendering a verdict.

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.

For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

"To whom would He teach knowledge, And to whom would He interpret the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast?

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

"For He says, 'Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.'"

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

He who said to them, "This is the place of quiet, give rest to the weary," And, "This is the resting place," but they would not listen.

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.

So the word of the LORD to them will be, "Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there," That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.

But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.