OET-RV ISA section

OET-RV by section ISA 28:7

This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

28:7 Yehudah’s drunken prophets

7 Even those reeled from wine

and stagger from strong drink.

Priest and prophet reeled from the strong drink,

and they were confused by from the wine.

They staggered from the strong drink—

reeling in vision, they stagger in indecision.

8 Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit—

≈ there’s no place without filth.

9 Who will he teach knowledge to,

≈ and who will he get to understand the message?

Those who’ve been weaned from milk—

≈ who’ve already been taken off the breasts.

10 Because it’s ‘command to command to command, line to line to line, a little there, a little there’.[fn]

11 Indeed, with stammering lips and foreign language,

he will speak to this people group[ref]

12 telling them, ‘This is the resting place where the weary ones can rest’,

≈ and, ‘This is the place for refreshing’.

but they weren’t willing to listen.

13 So Yahweh’s message to them,

‘command to command to command, line to line to line, a little there, a little there’,

so they can go, but they’ll stumble backwards and will be broken,

plus they’ll become trapped and will be captured.

28:10 The Hebrew for this verse (and v13) includes ‘tsav latsav, tsav latsav, kav lakav, kav lakav,’ etc., suggesting that it might possibly have been intended as drunken gibberish.