Isaiah 28 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Ephraim's Captivity Predicted

Isa 28:1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious adornment, 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 storm of hail and a destroying tempest; as a storm of mighty waters overflowing, shall he cast down to the earth with might.

Isa 28:3

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

Isa 28:4

Isa 28:4and the fading flower of his glorious adornment which is on the head of the fat valley shall be like an early fig before the summer: as soon as he that seeth it perceiveth it, scarcely is it in his hand, he swalloweth it down.

Isa 28:5

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

Isa 28:6

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

Isa 28:7

Isa 28:7But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in vision, they have stumbled in judgment.

Isa 28:8

Isa 28:8For all tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no more place.

Isa 28:9

Isa 28:9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the report? Them that are weaned from the milk, withdrawn from the breasts?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 28:11For with stammering lips and a strange tongue will he speak to this people;

Isa 28:12

Isa 28:12to whom he said, This is the rest: cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. But they would not hear.

Isa 28:13

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

Judah Is Warned

Isa 28:14

Isa 28:14Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

Isa 28:15

Isa 28:15For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol have we made an 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 for foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation: he that trusteth shall not make haste.

Isa 28:17

Isa 28:17And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a 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, ye shall be trodden down by it.

Isa 28:19

Isa 28:19As it passeth through it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night; and it shall be terror only to understand the report.

Isa 28:20

Isa 28:20For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.

Isa 28:21

Isa 28:21For Jehovah will rise up as on mount Perazim, he will be moved with anger as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and perform his act, his unwonted act.

Isa 28:22

Isa 28:22Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and one determined, upon the whole land.

Isa 28:23

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

Isa 28:24

Isa 28:24Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he all day opening and breaking the clods of his land?

Isa 28:25

Isa 28:25Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face thereof, cast abroad dill, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and the barley in an appointed place, and the rye in its border?

Isa 28:26

Isa 28:26His God doth instruct him in his judgment, he doth teach him.

Isa 28:27

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

Isa 28:28

Isa 28:28Bread corn is crushed, because he will not ever be threshing it; and if he drove the wheels of his cart and his horses over it, he would not crush it.

Isa 28:29

Isa 28:29This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, great in wisdom.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Isaiah 28 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Ephraim's Captivity Predicted

Judah Is Warned

Pericope