Isaiah 28:13

Isaiah 28:13

11 For with ^astammering lips and another tongue
He will speak to this people,

12 To whom He said, “This is the ^arest with which
You may cause the weary to rest,”
And, “This is the refreshing”;
Yet they would not hear.

13 But the word of the Lord was to them,
“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little,”
That they might go and fall backward, and be broken
And snared and caught.

14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we are in agreement.
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
It will not come to us,
^aFor we have made lies our refuge,
And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

A Cornerstone in Zion

16 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I lay in Zion ^aa stone for a foundation,
A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;
Whoever believes will not act hastily.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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But—rather, "Therefore," namely, because "they would not hear" (Isaiah 28:12).

that they might go—the designed result to those who, from a defect of the will, so far from profiting by God's mode of instructing, "precept upon precept," etc., made it into a stumbling-block (Hosea 6:5; Hosea 8:12; Matthew 13:14).

go, and fall—image appropriately from "drunkards" (Isaiah 28:7-8, which they were) who in trying to "go forward fall backward."

Isaiah 28:5-13

The prophet now turns to Judah; a gracious promise to the remnant ("residue"); a warning lest through like sins Judah should share the fate of Samaria.

crown—in antithesis to the "fading crown" of Ephraim (Isaiah 28:1, Isaiah 28:3).

the residue—primarily, Judah, in the prosperous reign of Hezekiah (II Kings 18:7), antitypically, the elect of God; as He here is called their "crown and diadem," so are they called His (Isaiah 62:3); a beautiful reciprocity.

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 28:13:**

Job 33:14
Isaiah 32:4
Isaiah 44:9

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