Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing
And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceivin
He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
But refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of th
May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of J
He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to unders
To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has
For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”
And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
To the one we are an odor that brings death, to the other a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a
Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like l
Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.