rsv Isaiah:28:5-15
rsv@Isaiah:28:5 @ In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people;
rsv@Isaiah:28:6 @ and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
rsv@Isaiah:28:7 @ These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
rsv@Isaiah:28:8 @ For all tables are full of vomit, no place is without filthiness.
rsv@Isaiah:28:9 @ "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?
rsv@Isaiah:28:10 @ For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little."
rsv@Isaiah:28:11 @ Nay, but by men of strange lips and with an alien tongue the LORD will speak to this people,
rsv@Isaiah:28:12 @ to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they would not hear.
rsv@Isaiah:28:13 @ Therefore the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
rsv@Isaiah:28:14 @ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!
rsv@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";