Chapter
Isaiah 28
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Book 1
Verses 29
| Reference | Verse |
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| Isaiah 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 wine! |
| Isaiah 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 waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. |
| Isaiah 28:3 | The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: |
| Isaiah 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. |
| Isaiah 28:5 | In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, |
| Isaiah 28:6 | And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. |
| Isaiah 28:7 | But 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. |
| Isaiah 28:8 | For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. |
| Isaiah 28:9 | Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. |
| Isaiah 28:10 | For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: |
| Isaiah 28:11 | For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. |
| Isaiah 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. |
| Isaiah 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. |
| Isaiah 28:14 | Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. |
| Isaiah 28:15 | Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at 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: |
| Isaiah 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. |
| Isaiah 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 waters shall overflow the hiding place. |
| Isaiah 28:18 | And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. |
| Isaiah 28:19 | From the time that it goeth 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. |
| Isaiah 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. |
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