028:010 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little. 028:011 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language; 028:012 to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear. 028:013 Therefore the word of Yahweh 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. 028:014 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem: 028:015 "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.'" 028:016 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "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. 028:017 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. 028:018 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it. 028:019 As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message." 028:020 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in. 028:021 For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act. 028:022 Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth. 028:023 Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech! 028:024 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods? 028:025 When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place? 028:026 For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him. 028:027 For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.