Isaiah 28:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Who is the LORD trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!

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  • Ps 131:2 : 2 Indeed, I have calmed and quieted myself like a weaned child with its mother; I am content like a young child.
  • Jer 6:10 : 10 I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 Jesus’ Invitation At that time Jesus said,“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to little children.
  • Matt 21:15-16 : 15 But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts,“Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant 16 and said to him,“Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them,“Yes. Have you never read,‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself’?”
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
  • John 3:19 : 19 Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.
  • John 12:38 : 38 so that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled. He 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 obey them, I do not judge him. For I have 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 him at the last day.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the LORD,
  • Isa 28:26 : 26 His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.
  • Isa 30:10-12 : 10 They say to the visionaries,“See no more visions!” and to the seers,“Don’t relate messages to us about what is right! Tell us nice things; relate deceptive messages. 11 Turn aside from the way; stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.” 12 For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says:“You have rejected this message; you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, and rely on that kind of behavior.
  • Isa 30:20 : 20 The Lord will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink; but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them.
  • Isa 48:17 : 17 This is what the LORD, your protector, says, the Holy One of Israel:“I am the LORD your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Servant Perseveres The Sovereign LORD has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.
  • Isa 53:1 : 1 Who would have believed what we just heard? When was the LORD’s power revealed through him?
  • Isa 54:13 : 13 All your children will be followers of the LORD, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy lies. The priests exercise power by their own authority. And my people love to have it this way. But they will not be able to help you when the time of judgment comes!
  • Ps 50:17 : 17 For you hate instruction and reject my words.

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    10Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.

    11For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

    12In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.

    13So the LORD’s message to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured.

  • Heb 5:11-14
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    11The Need to Move on to Maturity On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

    12For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

    13For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

    14But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

  • Isa 40:13-14
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    13Who comprehends the mind of the LORD, or gives him instruction as his counselor?

    14From whom does he receive directions? Who teaches him the correct way to do things, or imparts knowledge to him, or instructs him in skillful design?

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    1Immaturity and Self-deception So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

    2I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

  • Lam 4:4
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    4ד(Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

  • Isa 28:8
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    8Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit, with filth, leaving no clean place.

  • Prov 8:9
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    9All of them are clear to the discerning and upright to those who find knowledge.

  • 1 Pet 2:2
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    2And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

  • Rom 2:20
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    20an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth–

  • Isa 29:11-13
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    11To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say,“Read this,” he responds,“I can’t, because it is sealed.”

    12Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say,“Read this,” he says,“I can’t read.”

    13The Lord says,“These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.

  • Isa 7:15-16
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    15He will eat sour milk and honey, which will help him know how to reject evil and choose what is right.

    16Here is why this will be so: Before the child knows how to reject evil and choose what is right, the land whose two kings you fear will be desolate.

  • Isa 29:24
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    24Those who stray morally will gain understanding; those who complain will acquire insight.

  • Prov 9:9
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    9Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.

  • Isa 28:26
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    26His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.

  • Isa 66:11
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    11For you will nurse from her satisfying breasts and be nourished; you will feed with joy from her milk-filled breasts.

  • Ps 94:10
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    10Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!

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

  • Prov 1:4
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    4To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, a discerning plan to the young person.

  • Prov 19:27
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    27If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Hos 9:14
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    14Give them, O LORD– what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!

  • Prov 12:1
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    1The one who loves discipline loves knowledge, but the one who hates reproof is stupid.

  • 2 Tim 3:14
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    14You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you

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

  • Prov 23:12
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    12Apply your heart to instruction 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. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

  • Job 21:24
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    24his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

  • Hos 14:9
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    9Concluding Exhortation Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the LORD are right; the godly walk in them,but in them the rebellious stumble.

  • Job 21:22
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    22Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

  • Prov 29:15
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    15A rod and reproof impart wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained brings shame to his mother.

  • Isa 1:2
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    2Obedience, not Sacrifice Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the LORD speaks:“I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!

  • Hos 4:6
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    6You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

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    6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

  • Ps 22:9
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    9Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.

  • Eph 4:14
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    14So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

  • Isa 51:18
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    18There was no one to lead her among all the children she bore; there was no one to take her by the hand among all the children she raised.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the LORD’s message, what wisdom do they really have?

  • Job 15:9
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    9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?

  • Job 31:18
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    18but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!