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Read Full Chapter (Isaiah 28) Isaiah 28:12 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."
Isaiah Chapter 28, Verse 12
Isaiah 28:12 in Context (Verses 9–15 KJV)
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¶ 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.*
10
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:*
11
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.**
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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.
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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.
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¶ Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
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Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: