10For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.


In Context

7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

8 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

9 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;

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

Isaiah 28:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:10For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

28:10For it is: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule ; a little here, a little there."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:10For command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little there.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:10For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:10For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. ...

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:10For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:10For rule is on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:10For precept must be on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, and there a little: