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Isaiah 28:1-29 — Woe to Ephraim and Judah

Isa.28.1-29

¹Woe to the proud crown of Ephraim's drunkards, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley, those overcome by wine. ²Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, he hurls it to the earth with his hand. ³The proud crown of Ephraim's drunkards will be trampled underfoot. ⁴The fading flower of his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley, will be like the first-ripe fig before summer: whoever sees it, as soon as it is in his hand, swallows it. ⁵In that day Yahweh of Hosts will be a crown of beauty and a diadem of splendor to the remnant of his people, ⁶and a spirit of justice to the one who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. ⁷And these also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; priest and prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. ⁸For all the tables are full of vomit and filth; there is no clean place. ⁹Whom is he teaching knowledge, and to whom is he explaining the message? Those just weaned from milk, those taken from the breast? ¹⁰For it is precept on precept, precept on precept, line on line, line on line , a little here, a little there. ¹¹For with mocking lips and another tongue he will speak to this people, ¹²to whom he said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary,” and, “This is repose”; yet they were not willing to hear. ¹³So the word of Yahweh will be to them, “Precept on precept, precept on precept, line on line, line on line, a little here, a little there,” so that they may go and stumble backward and be broken, snared, and captured. ¹⁴Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. ¹⁵Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made an agreement; when the sweeping scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.” ¹⁶Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will not panic . ¹⁷I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will flood the hiding place. ¹⁸Your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the sweeping scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it. ¹⁹As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and mere understanding of the message will be sheer terror. ²⁰For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in. ²¹For Yahweh will rise up as at Mount Perazim; he will be stirred up as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do his work, his strange work, and to perform his task, his alien task. ²²So now do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Yahweh of Hosts a decreed destruction upon the whole land. ²³Give ear and hear my voice; pay attention and hear my speech. ²⁴Does the plowman plow continually in order to sow? Does he keep opening and harrowing his ground? ²⁵When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill and sow cumin, and set wheat in rows, barley in its place, and spelt at its border? ²⁶For his God instructs him rightly; he teaches him. ²⁷For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin; but dill is beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod. ²⁸Bread grain is crushed, but one does not keep threshing it forever; though he drives the wheel of his cart and his horses over it, he does not crush it completely. ²⁹This too comes from Yahweh of Hosts; he makes counsel wonderful and wisdom great.

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4/11/2026

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