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Isaias 28:13

And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command again; command, command again: expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Et erit eis verbum Domini : Manda, remanda ; manda, remanda ; exspecta, reexspecta ; exspecta, reexspecta ; modicum ibi, modicum ibi ; ut vadant, et cadant retrorsum, et conterantur, et illaqueentur, et capiantur.
Septuagint (Swete)
καὶ ἔσται αὐτοῖς τὸ λόγιον Κυρίου θλίψις ἐπὶ θλίψιν, ἐλπὶς ἐπὶ ἐλπίδι, ἔτι μικρὸν ἔτι μικρόν, ἵνα πορεύσωσιν καὶ πέσωσιν ὀπίσω, καὶ συντριβήσονται καὶ κινδυνεύσουσιυ καὶ ἁλώσονται.
Hebrew (WLC)
וְהָיָ֨ה לָהֶ֜ם דְּבַר יְהוָ֗ה צַ֣ו לָצָ֞ו צַ֤ו לָצָו֙ קַ֤ו לָקָו֙ קַ֣ו לָקָ֔ו זְעֵ֥יר שָׁ֖ם זְעֵ֣יר שָׁ֑ם לְמַ֨עַן יֵלְכ֜וּ וְכָשְׁל֤וּ אָחוֹר֙ וְנִשְׁבָּ֔רוּ וְנוֹקְשׁ֖וּ וְנִלְכָּֽדוּ

Haydock's commentary

Taken. God will make his prophets speak, notwithstanding your repugnance; or he will reduce you to the necessity of learning an unknown language. (Calmet)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.