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Isaiah 28
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28WOE TO [Samaria] the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim [the ten tribes], and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome {and} smitten down with wine!H1945H5850H1348H7910H669H6643H8597H5034H6731H7218H8081H1516H1986H3196 2Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty one [the Assyrian]; like a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty overflowing waters, he will cast it down to the earth with violent hand.H136H2389H533H2230H1259H6986H8178H2230H3524H4325H7857H3240H776H3027 3With [alien] feet [Samaria] the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden down.H5850H1348H7910H669H7429H7272 4And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like the early fig before the fruit harvest, which, when anyone sees it, he snatches and eats it up greedily at once. [So in an amazingly short time will the Assyrians devour Samaria, Israel's capital.]H6643H8597H7218H8081H1516H5034H6733H1061H7019H7200H7200H3709H1104 5[But] in that [future Messianic] day the Lord of hosts shall become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the [converted] remnant of His people,H3117H3068H6635H5850H6643H6843H8597H7605H5971 6And a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment {and} administers the law, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.H7307H4941H3427H4941H1369H7725H4421H8179 7But even these reel from wine and stagger from strong drink: the priest and the prophet reel from strong drink; they are confused from wine, they stagger {and} are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble when pronouncing judgment.H428H7686H3196H7941H8582H3548H5030H7686H7941H1104H4480H3196H8582H7941H7686H7203H6328H6417 8For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no place that is clean.H7979H4390H6892H6675H4725 9To whom will He teach knowledge? [Ask the drunkards.] And whom will He make to understand the message? Those who are babies, just weaned from the milk and taken from the breasts? [Is that what He thinks we are?]H3384H1844H995H8052H1580H2461H6267H7699 10For it is [His prophets repeating over and over]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little.H6673H6673H6673H6673H6957H6957H6957H6957H2191H2191 11No, but [the Lord will teach the rebels in a more humiliating way] by men with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people [says Isaiah, and teach them His lessons].H3934H8193H312H3956H1696H5971 12To these [complaining Jews the Lord] had said, This is the true rest [the way to true comfort and happiness] that you shall give to the weary, and, This is the [true] refreshing--yet they would not listen [to His teaching].H559H4496H5889H5117H4774H14H8085 13Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them [merely monotonous repeatings of]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little--that they may go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and taken.H1697H3068H6673H6673H6673H6673H6957H6957H6957H6957H2191H2191H3212H3782H268H7665H3369H3920 14Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem!H8085H1697H3068H3944H582H4910H5971H3389 15Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol (the place of the dead) we have an agreement--when the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter.H559H3772H1285H4194H7585H6213H2374H7857H7752H7885H5674H5674H935H7760H3577H4268H8267H5641 16Therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a Stone, a tested Stone, a precious Cornerstone of sure foundation; he who believes (trusts in, relies on, and adheres to that Stone) will not {be ashamed} {or} give way {or} hasten away [in sudden panic].H559H136H3069H3245H6726H68H976H68H3368H6438H3245H4143H539H2363 17I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plummet; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the hiding place (the shelter).H4941H7760H6957H6666H4949H1259H3261H4268H3577H4325H7857H5643 18And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol (the place of the dead) shall not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, then you will be trodden down by it.H1285H4194H3722H2380H7585H6965H7857H7752H5674H4823 19As often as it passes through, it [the enemy's scourge] will take you; for morning by morning will it pass through, by day and by night. And it will be utter terror merely to hear {and} comprehend the report {and} the message of it [but only hard treatment and dispersion will make you understand God's instruction].H1767H5674H3947H1242H1242H5674H3117H3915H2113H995H8052 20For [they will find that] the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself on and the covering too narrow for him to wrap himself in. [All their sources of confidence will fail them.]H4702H7114H8311H4541H6887H3664 21For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim, He will be wrathful as in the Valley of Gibeon, that He may do His work, His strange work, and bring to pass His act, His strange act.H3068H6965H2022H6559H7264H6010H1391H6213H4639H2114H4639H5647H5656H5237H5656 22Now therefore do not be scoffers, lest the bands which bind you be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land {and} the whole earth.H3887H4147H2388H8085H136H3069H6635H3617H2782H776 23Give ear and hear my [Isaiah's] voice; listen and hear my words.H238H8085H6963H7181H8085H565 24Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continue to plow and harrow the ground after it is smooth?H2790H2790H3117H2232H6605H7702H127 25When he has leveled its surface, does he not cast abroad [the seed of] dill {or} fennel and scatter cummin [a seasoning], and put the wheat in rows, and barley in its intended place, and spelt [an inferior kind of wheat] as the border?H7737H6440H6327H7100H2236H3646H7760H7795H2406H5567H8184H3698H1367 26[And he trains each of them correctly] for his God instructs him correctly and teaches him.H430H3256H4941H3384 27For dill is not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin; but dill is beaten off with a staff, and cummin with a rod [by hand].H7100H1758H2742H5699H212H5437H3646H7100H2251H4294H3646H7626 28Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it continuously. But when he has driven his cartwheel and his horses over it, he scatters it [tossing it up to the wind] without having crushed it.H3899H1854H5331H156H1758H2000H1536H5699H1854H6571 29This also comes from the Lord of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel [and] excellent in wisdom {and} effectual working.H3318H3068H6635H6381H6098H1431H8454


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