28Isaiah 28

1Woe 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 wine!Select Isaiah 28:1

2Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.Select Isaiah 28:2

3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:Select Isaiah 28:3

4And 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 looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up. ¶Select Isaiah 28:4

5In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people,Select Isaiah 28:5

6And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. ¶Select Isaiah 28:6

7But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.Select Isaiah 28:7

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

9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.Select Isaiah 28:9

10For precept must be on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, and there a little:Select Isaiah 28:10

11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.Select Isaiah 28:11

12To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.Select Isaiah 28:12

13But the word of the LORD was to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. ¶Select Isaiah 28:13

14Why hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.Select Isaiah 28:14

15Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing whip shall pass through, it shall not come to us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: ¶Select Isaiah 28:15

16Therefore thus says 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 believes shall not make haste.Select Isaiah 28:16

17Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. ¶Select Isaiah 28:17

18And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing whip shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.Select Isaiah 28:18

19From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.Select Isaiah 28:19

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.Select Isaiah 28:20

21For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall 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.Select Isaiah 28:21

22Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined on the whole earth. ¶Select Isaiah 28:22

23Give you ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.Select Isaiah 28:23

24Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground?Select Isaiah 28:24

25When he has made plain the face thereof, does he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place?Select Isaiah 28:25

26For his God does instruct him to discretion, and does teach him.Select Isaiah 28:26

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

28Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.Select Isaiah 28:28

29This also comes forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.Select Isaiah 28:29