- Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,
- He who said to them, "Here is rest, give rest to the weary," And, "Here is repose," but they would not listen.
- So the word of the LORD to them will be, "Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there," That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.
- Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
- Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a pact The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by, For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception."
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- Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people,
- 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.
- 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.
- Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
- You boast, "We have entered into a covenant with death, with the grave we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place."
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