Isaiah 28:5-15

⁵ In that day the Lord of hosts will be a garland of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people; ⁶ and a spirit of justice to the one who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. ⁷ These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment. ⁸ All tables are covered with filthy vomit; no place is clean.

⁹ "Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from milk, those taken from the breast? ¹⁰ For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little." ¹¹ Truly, with stammering lip and with alien tongue he will speak to this people, ¹² to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they would not hear. ¹³ Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them, "Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little;" in order that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

The Warning to Jerusalem

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";