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Isaiah 28:13

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 13 So to them the word of Jehovah will be:
  
  “Command after command, command after command,
  Line by line, line by line,*+
  A little here, a little there,”
  
  So that when they walk,
  They will stumble and fall backward
  And be broken and ensnared and caught.+

Isaiah 28:13

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 13 So to them the word of Jehovah will be:
  
  “Command after command, command after command,
  Line by line, line by line,*+
  A little here, a little there,”
  
  So that when they walk,
  They will stumble and fall backward
  And be broken and ensnared and caught.+

Isaiah 28:13

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 13 And to them the word of Jehovah will certainly become “command upon command, command upon command, measuring line upon measuring line, measuring line upon measuring line,+ here a little, there a little,” in order that they may go and certainly stumble backwards and actually be broken and ensnared and caught.+

Isaiah 28:13

The Bible in Living English
- 13 * And to them Jehovah’s word will be “he tells [us] well, tells [us] well, [he] aims to claim, aims to claim, a bit here, a bit here” in order that they may go stumbling backward and break their bones and be snared and caught.

Isaiah 28:13

American Standard Version
- 13 Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Isaiah 28:13

The Emphasized Bible
- 13 So the word of Yahweh must be to them—Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, A little here, a little there,—That they may go and fall backward and be torn and snared and captured.