8. Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit;there is no place without a stench.
9. Who is he trying to teach?Who is he trying to instruct?Infants just weaned from milk?Babies removed from the breast?
10. For he says: “Law after law, law after law,line after line, line after line,a little here, a little there.”
11. So He will speak to this peoplewith stammering speechand in a foreign language.
12. He had said to them:“This is the place of rest,let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.”But they would not listen.
13. Then the word of the Lord came to them:“Law after law, law after law,line after line, line after line,a little here, a little there,” so they go stumbling backward,to be broken, trapped, and captured.
14. Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you mockers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15. For you said, “We have cut a deal with Death,and we have made an agreement with Sheol;when the overwhelming scourge passes through, it will not touch us,because we have made falsehood our refugeand have hidden behind treachery.”
16. Therefore the Lord God said:“Look, I have laid a stone in Zion,a tested stone,a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will be unshakable.