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.
13. Therefore the Lord’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
14. Therefore hear the Lord’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:
15. “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
16. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
17. I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.