9 Who is he trying to teach?

Who is he trying to instruct?

InfantsA just weaned from milk?

BabiesA removed from the breast?

10 “Law after law, law after law,

line after line, line after line,

a little here, a little there.”*

11 For he will speak to this people

with stammering speech

and in a foreign language.a

12 He had said to them,

“This is the place of rest;

let the weary rest;b

this is the place of repose.”

But they would not listen.