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12 to whom he has said,

“This is rest; give rest to the weary;
    and this is repose”; yet[a] they were not willing to hear.

13 And to them the word of Yahweh will be

blah-blah upon blah-blah
    blah-blah upon blah-blah
gah-gah upon gah-gah
    gah-gah upon gah-gah,[b]
a little here, a little there,
so that they may go and stumble backward
    and be broken and ensnared and captured.

The Cornerstone of Zion

14 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery,
    rulers of these people in Jerusalem:

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:12 Or “and”
  2. Isaiah 28:13 In this context, the Hebrew expressions tsaw-tsaw and qaw-qaw are likely meant to sound like baby talk, but they could mean “command upon command” and “rule upon rule”