To whom will he teach knowledge? And to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast, establishing that those who are mature and able to receive instruction represent the constituency for the prophetic word, yet the preceding verses show that the current leadership has rendered itself incapable of receiving or conveying such instruction. The questions suggest irony: to whom indeed can knowledge be taught when all leaders are drunk and confused? The reference to those weaned from milk suggests maturity and the capacity for solid food. The oracle implicitly indicts the current community for its immaturity and resistance to the teaching of God's word. The rhetorical questions demand that the hearers recognize their own spiritual condition.

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