| Isa. 28:1 |
Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim / And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, / Which is at the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome by wine. |
| Isa. 28:2 |
Indeed the Lord has someone strong and mighty; / As a hailstorm [and] a tempest of destruction, / As a storm of mighty overflowing waters, / He will cast down to the earth with [His] hand. |
| Isa. 28:3 |
The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim / Will be trodden under foot; |
| Isa. 28:4 |
And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, / Which is at the head of the fat valley, / Will be like the first-ripe [fig] before the summer, / Which when someone looks upon it he sees it, / [And] in an instant it is in his hand, and he swallows it up. |
| Isa. 28:5 |
In that day Jehovah of hosts / Will become a crown of beauty and a diadem of glory to the remnant of His people, |
| Isa. 28:6 |
And a spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment / And strength to those who turn away the battle at the gate. |
| Isa. 28:7 |
But these also reel with wine / And stagger from liquor: / The priest and the prophet stagger from liquor; / They are swallowed up with wine; / They stagger from liquor, / They reel in [their] visions, / They totter in [their] judgments. |
| Isa. 28:8 |
For all the tables are full of vomit [and] filth; / There is no place [clean.] |
| Isa. 28:9 |
Whom will he teach knowledge? / And whom will he instruct with the report? / Those weaned from milk? / Those drawn from the breasts? |
| Isa. 28:10 |
For [his words are:] Rule upon rule, rule upon rule; / Line upon line, line upon line; / Here a little, there a little. |
| Isa. 28:11 |
For with stammering lips / And with a foreign tongue / He will speak to this people, |
| Isa. 28:12 |
He who said to them, / This is rest; give rest to the weary; / And, This is repose. / But they would not hear. |
| Isa. 28:13 |
Therefore Jehovah's word to them will be: / Rule upon rule, rule upon rule; / Line upon line, line upon line; / Here a little, there a little; / That they may go and stumble backward, / And be broken, snared, and taken. |
| Isa. 28:14 |
Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, / You scoffing men, / Who rule this people / Who are in Jerusalem: |
| Isa. 28:15 |
Because you have said, We have made / A covenant with death, / And with Sheol / We have made an agreement: / When the overflowing scourge passes through, / It will not come upon us; / For we have made falsehood our refuge / And have hidden ourselves in deception. |
| Isa. 28:16 |
Therefore thus says / The Lord Jehovah: / Indeed I lay a stone in Zion as a foundation, / A tested stone, / A precious cornerstone [as a] foundation firmly established; / He who believes will not hasten away. |
| Isa. 28:17 |
And I will make justice the line / And righteousness the plummet; / And the hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, / And the waters will overflow the secret place. |
| Isa. 28:18 |
And your covenant with death will be annulled, / And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; / When the overflowing scourge passes through, / You will be a trampling ground to it. |
| Isa. 28:19 |
As often as it passes through, / It will take hold of you. / For morning by morning it will pass through, / By day and by night; / And it will be nothing but terror / To understand the report [of it.] |
| Isa. 28:20 |
For the bed is too short for a man to stretch on, / And the sheet is too narrow for him to wrap himself in. |
| Isa. 28:21 |
For Jehovah will rise as on Mount Perazim, / He will be agitated as in the valley of Gibeon, / To do His deed, His strange deed, / And to do His work, His most different work. |
| Isa. 28:22 |
Now therefore do not be mockers, / Lest your fetters become stronger; For I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts / Of complete and decisive destruction upon the whole earth. |
| Isa. 28:23 |
Hearken and hear my voice; / Attend and hear my speech. |
| Isa. 28:24 |
Does the plowman plow all day long to sow his seed? / Does he open and harrow his ground [continually ?] |
| Isa. 28:25 |
Does he not, once he levels the surface, / Scatter dill and broadcast cummin, / And put the wheat in rows and the barley in [its] appointed place / And the rye where it belongs? |
| Isa. 28:26 |
For his God instructs him toward [such] discretion / And teaches him [so.] |
| Isa. 28:27 |
For dill is not threshed with a sharp tool, / Nor is the cart wheel turned upon the cummin; / But dill is beaten out with a rod, / And cummin with a stick. |
| Isa. 28:28 |
Bread grains are ground, / Yet one does not thresh and thresh forever. / And once the wheel of his cart and his horses drive over [it,] / One does not grind it. |
| Isa. 28:29 |
This also comes forth from Jehovah of hosts, / He who makes [His] counsel extraordinary and [His] sound wisdom great. |