Isaiah 28:13 Cross References - ISV

¹³ So, then, the message from the LORD to them will become: “Do this and do that, do this and do that, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there,” so that they will go, but fall backward, and be injured, snared, and captured.

²² May their dining tables entrap them, and become a snare for their allies.

⁹ “Go!” he responded. “Tell this people: “‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ ¹⁰ Dull the mind of this people, deafen their ears, and blind their eyes. By doing so, they won’t see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their minds, turn back, and be healed.”

¹⁴ Then he will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel he’ll also be a stone with which someone strikes himself, a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare to those who live in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Many will stumble on them; They’ll fall and be broken; They’ll be snared and captured.

¹⁰ For it is: “Do this and do that, do this and do that, Line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there.”

³⁶ But you are to no longer mention the oracle of the LORD, because the oracle is only for the person to whom the LORD gives his message, and you have overturned the words of the living God, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, our God. ³⁷ This is what you should say to the prophet, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ or ‘What has the LORD said?’ ³⁸ Since you’re saying, ‘We have an oracle of the LORD,’ therefore this is what the LORD says: He will answer your message with this message, ‘Burden of the LORD,’ and I’ll send you away with these words: ‘Don’t say, “Oracle of the LORD.”’

⁵ Therefore I cut them to pieces by the prophets, killing them by the words from my mouth. The verdict against you shines like a beacon.

¹² I prescribed great things from my Law for them, but they considered them profane.

¹⁴ “With them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says: ‘You will listen and listen but never understand. You will look and look but never comprehend,

⁴⁴ The person who falls over this stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”

⁹ And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a punishment for them.

¹⁶ To some people we are a deadly fragrance, while to others we are a living fragrance. Who is qualified for this?

⁷ Therefore he is precious to you who believe, but to those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, ⁸ a stone they stumble over and a rock they trip on.”They keep on stumbling because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

¹⁶ He speaks about this subject in all his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, leading to their own destruction, as they do the rest of the Scriptures.