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10 They say:
    Law by law, law by law,
    rule by rule, rule by rule,[a]
    a little here, a little there.
11 So the Lord will speak to this people
    with barbarous lips and in a foreign tongue.
12 He said to them,
“This is the resting place.
Let the weary rest.
This is the place to be refreshed,”
but they would not listen.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:10 The Hebrew text reads sav lasav sav lasav kav lakav kav lakav. It is possible that these are meaningless sounds imitating a baby’s babble and mocking the prophet’s words and rejecting God’s laws.