Isaiah 28:9

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Who is He trying to teach knowledge to? Who is He explaining His message to? To those just weaned from milk, those just taken from the breast?

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  • Ps 131:2 : 2 Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.
  • Jer 6:10 : 10 To whom can I speak and give warning so they will listen? Their ears are closed, and they cannot pay attention. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they take no pleasure in it.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus said, 'I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.'
  • Matt 21:15-16 : 15 When the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple, 'Hosanna to the Son of David!' they became indignant 16 They said to him, 'Do you hear what these children are saying?' Jesus replied, 'Yes, have you never read: Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies, you have prepared praise?'
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 'Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.'
  • John 3:19 : 19 This is the verdict: The light has come into the world, but people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.
  • John 12:38 : 38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said: "Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
  • John 12:47-48 : 47 "If anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge them. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 The one who rejects Me and does not accept My words has a judge: The word I have spoken will judge them on the last day.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow in your salvation,
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,
  • Isa 28:26 : 26 His God instructs him and teaches him the proper way.
  • Isa 30:10-12 : 10 They say to the seers, 'See no more visions!' and to the prophets, 'Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.' 11 'Leave the way, turn aside from the path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!' 12 Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: 'Because you have rejected this message and relied on oppression and deceit, leaning on them for support—'
  • Isa 30:20 : 20 Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.
  • Isa 48:17 : 17 This is what the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: 'I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who leads you in the way you should go.'
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Sovereign LORD has given me the tongue of the learned, so that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens me morning by morning; He awakens my ear to listen like one being taught.
  • Isa 53:1 : 1 Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
  • Isa 54:13 : 13 All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. And My people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?
  • Ps 50:17 : 17 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

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  • Isa 28:10-13
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    10For it is: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there.

    11Indeed, with stammering lips and another tongue, He will speak to this people.

    12To whom He said, 'This is the place of rest—give rest to the weary; this is the place of repose’—but they would not listen.

    13So the word of the LORD to them will be: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there—so that they may go and fall backward, be broken, snared, and captured.

  • Heb 5:11-14
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    11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you have become dull in hearing.

    12By this time you ought to be teachers, but instead you need someone to teach you again the elementary truths of God's word, and you need milk, not solid food.

    13For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is still an infant.

    14But solid food is for the mature, those who through practice have trained their senses to discern good from evil.

  • Isa 40:13-14
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    13Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as his counselor?

    14Whom did He consult, and who gave Him understanding? Who taught Him the path of justice, or showed Him knowledge, or instructed Him in the way of understanding?

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    1And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as spiritual people but as those who are worldly, as infants in Christ.

    2I fed you with milk, not solid food, because you were not able to receive it. Even now, you are still not able.

  • Lam 4:4
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    4The tongue of the nursing infant clings to the roof of its mouth because of thirst. The children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.

  • Isa 28:8
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    8All the tables are full of vomit and filth; there is no clean place left.

  • Prov 8:9
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    9They are all plain to those who understand, and right to those who find knowledge.

  • 1 Pet 2:2
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    2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow in your salvation,

  • Rom 2:20
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    20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the form of knowledge and truth—

  • Isa 29:11-13
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    11The entire vision is to you like the words of a sealed book. If it is given to one who can read and they are told, 'Read this, please,' they respond, 'I cannot, for it is sealed.'

    12Or if the book is handed to someone who cannot read, and they are told, 'Read this, please,' they answer, 'I do not know how to read.'

    13The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'

  • Isa 7:15-16
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    15He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right.

    16For before the boy knows to reject what is wrong and choose what is right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

  • Isa 29:24
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    24Those who are confused in spirit will gain understanding, and those who complain will learn instruction.

  • Prov 9:9
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    9Instruct the wise, and they will be wiser still; teach the righteous, and they will add to their learning.

  • Isa 28:26
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    26His God instructs him and teaches him the proper way.

  • Isa 66:11
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    11For you will nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing glory.

  • Ps 94:10
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    10Does He who disciplines nations not rebuke? Does He who teaches mankind knowledge not know?

  • Job 8:10
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    10Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?

  • Prov 1:4
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    4To give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—

  • Prov 19:27
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    27Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Hos 9:14
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    14Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.

  • Prov 12:1
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    1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but one who hates correction is senseless.

  • 2 Tim 3:14
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    14But you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you have learned it.

  • Prov 22:6
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    6Train a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 23:12
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    12Apply your heart to discipline, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.

  • Job 21:24
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    24His sides full of milk, and the marrow of his bones moist.

  • Hos 14:9
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    9Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols? I will answer him and care for him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from me.

  • Job 21:22
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    22Can anyone teach knowledge to God, who judges even the exalted ones?

  • Prov 29:15
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    15The rod of correction and discipline impart wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

  • Isa 1:2
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    2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: "I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

  • Hos 4:6
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    6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22For my people are foolish; they do not know me. They are senseless children and have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

  • Prov 2:6
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    6For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

  • Ps 22:9
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    9'Commit yourself to the LORD; let Him deliver him! Let Him rescue him, since He delights in him.'

  • Eph 4:14
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    14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

  • Isa 51:18
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    18There is no one to guide her among all the sons she has borne, and no one to take her by the hand among all the sons she has raised.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

  • Job 15:9
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    9What do you know that we do not know? What insight do you have that is not with us?

  • Job 31:18
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    18but from my youth I raised him as a father would, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—