8. Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit;there is no place without a stench.
9. Who is he trying to teach?Who is he trying to instruct?Infants just weaned from milk?Babies removed from the breast?
10. For he says: “Law after law, law after law,line after line, line after line,a little here, a little there.”
11. So He will speak to this peoplewith stammering speechand in a foreign language.
12. He had said to them:“This is the place of rest,let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.”But they would not listen.
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,” so they go stumbling backward,to be broken, trapped, and captured.