Isaiah Chapter 28
28:1 | Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower, which [are] on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with ![]() |
28:2 | Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, [which] as a tempest of hail [and] a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty ![]() ![]() |
28:3 | The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under ![]() |
28:4 | And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the hasty fruit before the summer; which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. |
28:5 | In that ![]() ![]() |
28:6 | And for a ![]() |
28:7 | But they also have erred through ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
28:8 | For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]. |
28:9 | Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the ![]() |
28:10 | For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little: |
28:11 | For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. |
28:12 | To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear. |
28:13 | But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. |
28:14 | Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which [is] in ![]() |
28:15 | Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with ![]() ![]() |
28:16 | Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. |
28:17 | Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the ![]() |
28:18 | And your covenant with ![]() ![]() |
28:19 | From the ![]() ![]() |
28:20 | For 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]. |
28:21 | For the LORD shall rise up as [in] mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may ![]() |
28:22 | Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole ![]() |
28:23 | Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. |
28:24 | Doth the plowman plow all ![]() |
28:25 | When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal ![]() |
28:26 | For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him. |
28:27 | For the fitches are not threshed with a 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. |
28:28 | ![]() ![]() |
28:29 | This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [which] is wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in working. |