Thematic Bible
Isaiah 28:1 (show verse)
Ah! The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim and [the] withering flower of the glory of his beauty, which [is] at [the] head of {the rich valley}, {ones overcome} with wine!
Isaiah 28:2 (show verse)
Look! The Lord has mighty and strong [one], like a rainstorm of hail, a wind storm of destruction, like a rainstorm of mighty overflowing waters, he will put [them] to the earth with [his] hand.
Isaiah 28:3 (show verse)
The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled by feet,
Isaiah 28:4 (show verse)
and [the] withering flower of the glory of its beauty which [is] at [the] head of {the rich valley} will be like its early fig before summer, {which the one who sees it swallows} while it [is] still in his hand.
Isaiah 28:5 (show verse)
In that day, Yahweh of hosts will become a garland of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of his people,
Isaiah 28:6 (show verse)
and a spirit of justice to the one who sits over judgment, and strength [to] those who turn back [the] battle [at the] gate.
Isaiah 28:7 (show verse)
And these also stagger because of wine and stagger because of strong drink; priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink; they are confused because of wine. They stagger because of strong drink; they err in vision. They stagger [in the] rendering of a decision,
Isaiah 28:8 (show verse)
for all [the] tables are full [of] disgusting vomit, {with no place left}.
Isaiah 28:9 (show verse)
[To] whom will he teach knowledge, and [to] whom will he explain [the] message? Those who are weaned from milk, [those] taken from [the] breast?
Isaiah 28:10 (show verse)
For [it is] blah-blah upon blah-blah, blah-blah upon blah-blah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, a little here, a little there.
Isaiah 28:11 (show verse)
For he will speak with {stammering} and another tongue to this people,
Isaiah 28:12 (show verse)
to whom he has said, "This [is] rest; give rest to the weary; and this [is] repose"; yet they were not willing to hear.
Isaiah 28:13 (show verse)
And to them the word of Yahweh will be blah-blah upon blah-blah blah-blah upon blah-blah gah-gah upon gah-gah gah-gah upon gah-gah, a little here, a little there, so that they may go and stumble backward and be broken and ensnared and captured.
Isaiah 28:14 (show verse)
Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery, rulers of these people in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 28:15 (show verse)
Because you have said, "We have {made} a covenant with death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol. [The] overwhelming flood, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves in falsehood."
Isaiah 28:16 (show verse)
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: "Look! I [am] laying a stone in Zion, a {tested} stone, a precious cornerstone, a founded foundation: 'The one who trusts will not {panic}.'
Isaiah 28:17 (show verse)
And I will make justice [the] measuring line, and righteousness [the] plumb line; and hail will sweep away [the] refuge of lies, and waters will flood over [the] hiding place.
Isaiah 28:18 (show verse)
And your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; you will become a trampling place for the overwhelming flood when it passes through.
Isaiah 28:19 (show verse)
{As often as it passes through}, it will take you, for {morning by morning} it will pass through, in the day and in the night, and understanding [the] message will be only terror."
Isaiah 28:20 (show verse)
For the bed is too short {to stretch out on}, and the covering is [too] narrow when wrapping oneself.
Isaiah 28:21 (show verse)
For Yahweh will rise up as [at] Mount Perazim; he will rave as [in the] valley at Gibeon to do his deed--his deed [is] strange-- and to work his work--his work [is] alien!
Isaiah 28:22 (show verse)
And now you must not scoff, or your bonds will be strong, for I have heard from the Lord, Yahweh of hosts: complete destruction decreed upon all the land.
Isaiah 28:23 (show verse)
Listen, and hear my voice! Listen attentively, and hear my word!
Isaiah 28:24 (show verse)
Is it all day [that] the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?
Isaiah 28:25 (show verse)
When he has leveled its {surface}, does he not scatter dill, and sow cumin seed, and {plant} wheat [in] planted rows, and barley [in] an appointed place, and spelt grain [as] its border?
Isaiah 28:26 (show verse)
And his God instructs him about the prescription; he teaches him.
Isaiah 28:27 (show verse)
For dill is not threshed with threshing sledge, nor is a wheel of a utility cart {rolled} over cumin, but dill is beaten out with stick, and cumin with rod.
Isaiah 28:28 (show verse)
Grain is crushed fine, but certainly one does not thresh it forever; and one drives the wheel of his cart, but his horses do not crush it.
Isaiah 28:29 (show verse)
This also comes forth from Yahweh of hosts. He is wonderful [in] advice; he makes great wisdom.