9 Whom would He teach knowledge? And whom would He make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts!
10 For it is: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.
11 For with a jabbering lip and a foreign tongue He speaks to this people,
12 to whom He said, “This is the rest, give rest to the weary,” and, “This is the refreshing.” But they would not hear.
13 But the Word of יהוה was to them, “Command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little,” so that they go and shall stumble backward, and be broken and snared and taken captive.
14 Therefore hear the Word of יהוה, you men of scorn, who rule this people who are in Yerushalayim,
15 because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we have effected a vision. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it does not come to us, for we have made lying our refuge, and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”