12to whom he said, "This is the resting place, let the weary rest"; and, "This is the place of repose"- but they would not listen.


In Context

9 "Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast?

10 For it is: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule ; a little here, a little there."

11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people,

12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place, let the weary rest"; and, "This is the place of repose"- but they would not listen.

13 So then, the word of the Lord to them will become: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a little there- so that they will go and fall backward, be injured and snared and captured.

14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord , you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:12To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:12To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is my refreshing: and they would not hear.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:12to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:12to whom he said, This is the rest: cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. But they would not hear.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:12to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:12To whom he said, This is the rest with which ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:12to whom he said, |This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;| and |This is the refreshing;| yet they would not hear.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:12Unto whom He hath said, 'This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this — the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:12To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.