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Isaiah 28:9–10

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9tWhom shall he teach knowledge?

And whom shall he make to understand †doctrine?

uThem that are weaned from the milk,

And drawn from the breasts.

10For precept ||must be upon precept, precept upon precept;

vLine upon line, line upon line;

Here a little, and there a little:

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Footnotes

  1. tSo Jer. 6:10.
  2. †Heb. the hearing? See ver. 19.
  3. uSee Matt. 11:25. & 18:3.
  4. ||Or, hath been.
  5. vver. 13, 17. So Ps. 19:4. ch. 18:2 marg.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“To whom will he teach knowledge,

and to whom will he explain the message?

Those who are weaned from the milk,

those taken from the breast?

For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,

line upon line, line upon line,

here a little, there a little.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Who is it he is trying to teach?

To whom is he explaining his message?

To children weaned from their milk,

to those just taken from the breast?

For it is:

Do this, do that,

a rule for this, a rule for that;

a little here, a little there.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Who is he trying to teach?

Who is he trying to instruct?

Infants just weaned from milk?

Babies removed from the breast?

“Law after law, law after law,

line after line, line after line,

a little here, a little there.”

NLTNew Living Translation

“Who does the Lord think we are?” they ask.

“Why does he speak to us like this?

Are we little children,

just recently weaned?

He tells us everything over and over—

one line at a time,

one line at a time,

a little here,

and a little there!”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

To whom will he teach knowledge,

and to whom will he explain the message?

Those who are weaned from milk,

those taken from the breast?

For it is blah-blah upon blah-blah,

blah-blah upon blah-blah,

gah-gah upon gah-gah,

gah-gah upon gah-gah,

a little here, a little there.