Isaías 28:9-19

9 ¿A quién enseñará conocimiento, o a quién interpretará el mensaje? ¿A los recién destetados? ¿A los recién quitados de los pechos?

10 Porque dice: "Mandato sobre mandato, mandato sobre mandato, línea sobre línea, línea sobre línea, un poco aquí, un poco allá."

11 En verdad, con tartamudez de labios y en lengua extranjera, El hablará a este pueblo,

12 al cual había dicho: Aquí hay reposo, dad reposo al cansado; y: Aquí hay descanso. Pero no quisieron escuchar.

13 Por lo cual la palabra del SEÑOR para ellos será: Mandato sobre mandato, mandato sobre mandato, línea sobre línea, línea sobre línea, un poco aquí, un poco allá, para que vayan y caigan de espaldas, se quiebren los huesos, y sean enlazados y apresados.

14 Por tanto, oíd la palabra del SEÑOR, oh escarnecedores, gobernantes de este pueblo que está en Jerusalén.

15 Porque habéis dicho: Hemos hecho un pacto con la muerte, hemos hecho un convenio con el Seol; cuando pase el azote abrumador, no nos alcanzará, porque hemos hecho de la mentira nuestro refugio y en el engaño nos hemos escondido.

16 Por tanto, así dice el Señor DIOS: He aquí, pongo por fundamento en Sion una piedra, una piedra probada, angular, preciosa, fundamental, bien colocada. El que crea en ella no será perturbado.

17 Pondré el juicio por medida, y la justicia por nivel; el granizo barrerá el refugio de la mentira, y las aguas cubrirán el escondite.

18 Y será abolido vuestro pacto con la muerte, vuestro convenio con el Seol no quedará en pie; cuando pase el azote abrumador, seréis su holladero.

19 Cuantas veces pase, os arrebatará, porque pasará mañana tras mañana, de día y de noche; y será terrible espanto el comprender el mensaje.

Isaías 28:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 28

In this chapter the ten tribes of Israel and the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, are threatened with divine judgments, because of their sins and iniquities mentioned. The ten tribes, under the name of Ephraim, for their pride and drunkenness, Isa 28:1 the means of their destruction, the Assyrian monarch, compared to a hail storm, and a flood of mighty waters, Isa 28:2 which destruction, for their sins, is repeated, and represented as sudden and swift; when they would be like a fading flower and hasty fruit, Isa 28:3,4 and then, as for the two tribes, though they had a glorious prince at the head of them, who had a spirit of wisdom and judgment for government, and of valour and courage for war, Isa 28:5,6 yet the generality of the people, led on by the example of priest and prophet, went into the same sensual gratifications as they of the ten tribes did, Isa 28:7,8 and became sottish and unteachable, and were like children just taken from the breast, and to be used as such, Isa 28:9-11 and though the doctrine proposed to be taught them was such as, if received, would be of the greatest advantage to them, for their comfort and refreshment, yet it was refused by them with the utmost contempt; which was to be their ruin, Isa 28:12,13, wherefore the rulers of Jerusalem are threatened with the judgments of God, which should come upon them night and day, the report of which would be a vexation to them; and from which they should not be screened by their covenant with death and hell, or by their shelters and coverings with lies and falsehood, in which they placed their confidence, Isa 28:14,15 Isa 28:17-22 in the midst of which account, for the comfort of the Lord's people, stands a glorious prophecy, concerning the sure foundation laid in Zion, on which all that are built are safe and happy, Isa 28:16 and the certainty of these judgments is illustrated by the method which the ploughman takes in sowing his corn, and threshing it out; for which he has instruction and direction from the Lord of hosts, Isa 28:23-29.