Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
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 Isa 28:1 |
Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the [fn]fertile valley Of those who are [fn]overcome with wine! |
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Isa 28:2 |
Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent; As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, He has cast it down to the earth with His hand. |
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Isa 28:3 |
The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trodden under foot. |
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Isa 28:4 |
And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the [fn]fertile valley, Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to summer, Which [fn]one sees, And [fn]as soon as it is in his [fn]hand, He swallows it. |
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Isa 28:5 |
In that day the LORD of hosts will become a beautiful crown And a glorious diadem to the remnant of His people; |
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Isa 28:6 |
A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment, A strength to those who repel the [fn]onslaught at the gate. |
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Isa 28:7 |
And these also reel with wine and stagger from strong drink: The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; They reel while [fn]having visions, They totter when rendering judgment. |
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Isa 28:8 |
For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place. |
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Isa 28:9 |
"To whom would He teach knowledge, And to whom would He interpret the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast? |
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Isa 28:10 |
"For He says, ' [fn]Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.'" |
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Isa 28:11 |
Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue, |
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Isa 28:12 |
He who said to them, "Here is rest, give rest to the weary," And, "Here is repose," but they would not listen. |
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Isa 28:13 |
So the word of the LORD to them will be, " [fn]Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there," That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive. |
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Isa 28:14 |
Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, |
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Isa 28:15 |
Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, And with [fn]Sheol we have made a [fn]pact. The overwhelming [fn]scourge will not reach us when it passes by, For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception." |
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Isa 28:16 |
Therefore thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, [fn]firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be [fn]disturbed. |
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Isa 28:17 |
"I will make justice the measuring line And righteousness the level; Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies And the waters will overflow the secret place. |
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Isa 28:18 |
"Your covenant with death will be [fn]canceled, And your pact with Sheol will not stand; When the overwhelming scourge passes through, Then you become its trampling place. |
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Isa 28:19 |
"As often as it passes through, it will [fn]seize you; For morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night, And it will be [fn]sheer terror to understand [fn]what it means." |
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Isa 28:20 |
The bed is too short on which to stretch out, And the blanket is too [fn]small to wrap oneself in. |
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Isa 28:21 |
For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be stirred up as in the valley of Gibeon, To do His task, His [fn]unusual task, And to work His work, His [fn]extraordinary work. |
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Isa 28:22 |
And now do not carry on as scoffers, Or your fetters will be made stronger; For I have heard from the Lord [fn]GOD of hosts Of decisive destruction on all the earth. |
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Isa 28:23 |
Give ear and hear my voice, Listen and hear my words. |
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Isa 28:24 |
Does the [fn]farmer plow [fn]continually to plant seed? Does he continually [fn]turn and harrow the ground? |
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Isa 28:25 |
Does he not level its surface And sow dill and scatter cummin And [fn]plant wheat in rows, Barley in its place and rye within its [fn]area? |
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Isa 28:26 |
For his God instructs and teaches him properly. |
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Isa 28:27 |
For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, Nor is the cartwheel [fn]driven over cummin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club. |
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Isa 28:28 |
Grain for bread is crushed, Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever. Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually [fn]damage it, He does not thresh it longer. |
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Isa 28:29 |
This also comes from the LORD of hosts, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great. |
NASB Footnotes:
- (28:1) Literally: valley of fatness
- (28:1) Literally: smitten
- (28:4) Literally: valley of fatness
- (28:4) Literally: the one seeing sees
- (28:4) Literally: while it is yet
- (28:4) Literally: palm
- (28:6) Literally: battle
- (28:7) Literally: seeing
- (28:10) Hebrew: Sav lasav, sav lasav, Kav lakav, kav lakav, Ze' er sham, ze' er sham These Hebrew monosyllables, imitating the babbling of a child, mock the prophet's preaching
- (28:13) V 10, note 1 The LORD responds to their scoffing by imitating their mockery, to represent the unintelligible language of a conqueror
- (28:15) I.e. the nether world
- (28:15) So some ancient versions; Heb seer
- (28:15) Or, flood
- (28:16) Hebrew: YHWH, usually rendered LORD
- (28:16) Literally: well-laid
- (28:16) Literally: in a hurry
- (28:18) Literally: covered over
- (28:19) Literally: take
- (28:19) Literally: only
- (28:19) Literally: the report, or, the message
- (28:20) Literally: narrow
- (28:21) Literally: task is strange
- (28:21) Literally: work is alien
- (28:22) Hebrew: YHWH, usually rendered LORD
- (28:24) Literally: plowman
- (28:24) Literally: all day
- (28:24) Literally: open
- (28:25) Literally: put
- (28:25) Literally: region
- (28:27) Literally: rolled
- (28:28) Literally: discomfit
