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Isaiah 28
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Woe to Samaria

28Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim's drunkards, and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendor, which is on the summit above the rich valley. [Woe] to those overcome with wine.H1945H5850H1348H7910H669H6643H8597H5034H6731H7218H8081H1516H1986H3196
2Look, the Lord has a strong and mighty one— like a devastating hail storm, like a storm with strong flooding waters. He will bring it across the land with [His] hand.H136H2389H533H2230H1259H6986H8178H2230H3524H4325H7857H3240H776H3027
3The majestic crown of Ephraim's drunkards will be trampled underfoot.H5850H1348H7910H669H7429H7272
4The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, which is on the summit above the rich valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest. Whoever sees it will swallow it while it is still in his hand.H6643H8597H7218H8081H1516H5034H6733H1061H7019H7200H7200H3709H1104
5On that day the LORD of Hosts will become a crown of beauty and a diadem of splendor to the remnant of His people,H3117H3068H6635H5850H6643H6843H8597H7605H5971
6a spirit of justice to the one who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.H7307H4941H3427H4941H1369H7725H4421H8179
7These also stagger because of wine and stumble under the influence of beer: priest and prophet stagger because of beer, they are confused by wine. They stumble because of beer, they are muddled in [their] visions, they stumble in [their] judgments.H428H7686H3196H7941H8582H3548H5030H7686H7941H1104H4480H3196H8582H7941H7686H7203H6328H6417
8Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit; there is no place without a stench.H7979H4390H6892H6675H4725
9Who is he trying to teach? Who is he trying to instruct? Infants [just] weaned from milk? Babies removed from the breast?H3384H1844H995H8052H1580H2461H6267H7699
10For [he says]: "Law after law, law after law, line after line, line after line, a little here, a little there."H6673H6673H6673H6673H6957H6957H6957H6957H2191H2191
11So He will speak to this people with stammering speech and in a foreign language.H3934H8193H312H3956H1696H5971
12He had said to them: "This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose." But they would not listen.H559H4496H5889H5117H4774H14H8085
13Then the word of the LORD came to them: "Law after law, law after law, line after line, line after line, a little here, a little there," so they go stumbling backwards, to be broken, trapped, and captured.H1697H3068H6673H6673H6673H6673H6957H6957H6957H6957H2191H2191H3212H3782H268H7665H3369H3920

A Deal with Death

14Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you mockers who rule this people in Jerusalem.H8085H1697H3068H3944H582H4910H5971H3389
15For you said, "We have cut a deal with Death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, it will not touch us, because we have made falsehood our refuge and have hidden behind treachery."H559H3772H1285H4194H7585H6213H2374H7857H7752H7885H5674H5674H935H7760H3577H4268H8267H5641
16Therefore the Lord God said: "Look, I have laid a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will be unshakable.H559H136H3069H3245H6726H68H976H68H3368H6438H3245H4143H539H2363
17And I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the mason's level." Hail will sweep away the false refuge, and water will flood your hiding place.H4941H7760H6957H6666H4949H1259H3261H4268H3577H4325H7857H5643
18Your deal with Death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled.H1285H4194H3722H2380H7585H6965H7857H7752H5674H4823
19Every time it passes through, it will carry you away; it will pass through every morning— every day and every night. Only terror will cause you to understand the message.H1767H5674H3947H1242H1242H5674H3117H3915H2113H995H8052
20Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and its cover too small to wrap up in.H4702H7114H8311H4541H6887H3664
21For the LORD will rise up as [He did] at Mount Perazim. He will rise in wrath, as at the valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.H3068H6965H2022H6559H7264H6010H1391H6213H4639H2114H4639H5647H5656H5237H5656
22So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become stronger. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord God of Hosts a decree of destruction for the whole land.H3887H4147H2388H8085H136H3069H6635H3617H2782H776

God’s Wonderful Advice

23Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.H238H8085H6963H7181H8085H565
24Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed? Does he [continuously] break up and cultivate the soil?H2790H2790H3117H2232H6605H7702H127
25When he has leveled its surface, does he not then scatter cumin and sow black cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, with spelt as their border.H7737H6440H6327H7100H2236H3646H7760H7795H2406H5567H8184H3698H1367
26His God teaches him order; He instructs him.H430H3256H4941H3384
27Certainly black cumin is not threshed with a threshing board, and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin. But black cumin is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.H7100H1758H2742H5699H212H5437H3646H7100H2251H4294H3646H7626
28Bread grain is crushed, but is not threshed endlessly. Though the wheel of [the farmer's] cart rumbles, his horses do not crush it.H3899H1854H5331H156H1758H2000H1536H5699H1854H6571
29This also comes from the LORD of Hosts. He gives wonderful advice; He gives great wisdom.H3318H3068H6635H6381H6098H1431H8454


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