13 Then the word of the Lord came to them:
“Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there,”[a][b]
so they go stumbling backward,
to be broken, trapped, and captured.(A)

A Deal with Death

14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord,(B) you mockers(C)
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15 For you said, “We have cut a deal with Death,
and we have made an agreement with Sheol;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through,(D)
it will not touch us,
because we have made falsehood our refuge
and have hidden behind treachery.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:13 Hb obscure
  2. Isaiah 28:13 The Lord quotes the mockers' words in v. 10 to represent the unintelligible language of the Assyrian invaders.

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