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Isaiah 28 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Isa 28:1

Isa 28:1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!

Isa 28:2

Isa 28:2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.

Isa 28:3

Isa 28:3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot:

Isa 28:4

Isa 28:4and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

Isa 28:5

Isa 28:5In that day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people;

Isa 28:6

Isa 28:6and a spirit of justice to him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.

Isa 28:7

Isa 28:7And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Isa 28:8

Isa 28:8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

Isa 28:9

Isa 28:9Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

Isa 28:10

Isa 28:10For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.

Isa 28:11

Isa 28:11Nay, but by men of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;

Isa 28:12

Isa 28:12to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

Isa 28:13

Isa 28:13Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Judah Is Warned

Isa 28:14

Isa 28:14Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:

Isa 28:15

Isa 28:15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Isa 28:16

Isa 28:16therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.

Isa 28:17

Isa 28:17And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

Isa 28:18

Isa 28:18And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

Isa 28:19

Isa 28:19As often as it passeth through, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message.

Isa 28:20

Isa 28:20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

Isa 28:21

Isa 28:21For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

Isa 28:22

Isa 28:22Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.

Isa 28:23

Isa 28:23Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

Isa 28:24

Isa 28:24Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?

Isa 28:25

Isa 28:25When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof?

Isa 28:26

Isa 28:26For his God doth instruct him aright, and doth teach him.

Isa 28:27

Isa 28:27For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

Isa 28:28

Isa 28:28Bread grain is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it.

Isa 28:29

Isa 28:29This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
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