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Isaiah 28:10

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

KJV

Quia manda, remanda ; manda, remanda ; exspecta, reexspecta ; exspecta, reexspecta ; modicum ibi, modicum ibi.

Vulgate

θλίψιν ἐπὶ θλίψιν προσδέχου, ἐλπίδα ἐπ’ ἐλπίδι, ἔτι μικρὸν ἔτι μικρόν,

LXX

For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.

ASV

כִּ֣י צַ֤ו לָ/צָו֙ צַ֣ו לָ/צָ֔ו קַ֥ו לָ/קָ֖ו קַ֣ו לָ/קָ֑ו זְעֵ֥יר שָׁ֖ם זְעֵ֥יר שָֽׁם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ה
h
adverb · 827×
זְעֵ֥יר
z'yr
noun · 5×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
צַ֤ו
tsv
noun · 9×
קָ֔ו
qv
noun · 20×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 36:15 — And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
  • 2Tim 3:7 — Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • Deut 6:1 — Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
  • Exod 4:8 — And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
  • Heb 5:12 — For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong me
  • Isa 5:4 — What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
  • Isa 28:13 — But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be brok
  • Isa 28:13 — But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be brok
  • Jer 11:7 — For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
  • Jer 25:3 — From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising e
  • Luke 13:5 — I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
  • Matt 21:34 — And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
  • Neh 9:29 — And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, h