Isaiah 28 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Ephraim's Captivity Predicted

Isa 28:1Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of E'phraim, and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!

Isa 28:2

Isa 28:2Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he will cast down to the earth with violence.

Isa 28:3

Isa 28:3The proud crown of the drunkards of E'phraim will be trodden under foot;

Isa 28:4

Isa 28:4and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when a man sees it, he eats it up as soon as it is in his hand.

Isa 28:5

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

Isa 28:6

Isa 28:6and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

Isa 28:7

Isa 28:7These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

Isa 28:8

Isa 28:8For all tables are full of vomit, no place is without filthiness.

Isa 28:9

Isa 28:9"Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?

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 an alien tongue the LORD will speak to this people,

Isa 28:12

Isa 28:12to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they would not hear.

Isa 28:13

Isa 28:13Therefore the word of the LORD will be to 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 28:14Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!

Isa 28:15

Isa 28:15Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";

Isa 28:16

Isa 28:16therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'He who believes will not be in haste.'

Isa 28:17

Isa 28:17And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."

Isa 28:18

Isa 28:18Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through you will be beaten down by it.

Isa 28:19

Isa 28:19As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.

Isa 28:20

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

Isa 28:21

Isa 28:21For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Pera'zim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; to do his deed--strange is his deed! and to work his work--alien is his work!

Isa 28:22

Isa 28:22Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts upon the whole land.

Isa 28:23

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

Isa 28:24

Isa 28:24Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? does he continually open and harrow his ground?

Isa 28:25

Isa 28:25When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cummin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and spelt as the border?

Isa 28:26

Isa 28:26For he is instructed aright; his God teaches him.

Isa 28:27

Isa 28:27Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cummin; but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cummin with a rod.

Isa 28:28

Isa 28:28Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it for ever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.

Isa 28:29

Isa 28:29This also comes from the LORD of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

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Isaiah 28 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Ephraim's Captivity Predicted

Judah Is Warned

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