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Isaiah 28

Ephraim's Captivity Predicted

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Woe to the proud crown of the  adrunkards of  bEphraim, And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the  1fertile valley Of those who are  2overcome with wine!

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Behold, the Lord has a strong and  amighty agent; As a storm of  bhail, a tempest of destruction, Like a storm of  cmighty overflowing waters, He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

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The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is  atrodden under foot.

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And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the  1fertile valley, Will be like the  afirst-ripe fig prior to summer, Which  2one sees, And  3as soon as it is in his  4hand, He swallows it.

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In that day the  aLORD of hosts will become a beautiful  bcrown And a glorious diadem to the remnant of His people;

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A  aspirit of justice for him who sits in judgment, A  bstrength to those who repel the  1onslaught at the gate.

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And these also  areel with wine and stagger from strong drink:  bThe priest and  cthe prophet reel with strong drink, They are confused by wine, they stagger from  dstrong drink; They reel while  1having  evisions, They totter when rendering judgment.

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For all the tables are full of filthy  avomit, without a single clean place.

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"To  awhom would He teach knowledge, And to whom would He interpret the message? Those just  bweaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast?

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"For He says,1 aOrder on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.' "

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Indeed, He will speak to this people Through  astammering lips and a foreign tongue,

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He who said to them, "Here is  arest, give rest to the weary," And, "Here is repose," but they would not listen.

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So the word of the LORD to them will be, " 1Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there," That they may go and  astumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.

Judah Is Warned

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Therefore,  ahear the word of the LORD, O  bscoffers, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

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Because you have said, "We have made a  acovenant with death, And with  1Sheol we have made a  2pact.  bThe overwhelming  3scourge will not reach us when it passes by, For we have made  cfalsehood our refuge and we have  dconcealed ourselves with deception."

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Therefore thus says the Lord  1GOD, " aBehold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested  bstone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation,  2firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be  3disturbed.

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"I will make  ajustice the measuring line And righteousness the level; Then  bhail will sweep away the refuge of lies And the waters will overflow the secret place.

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"Your  acovenant with death will be  1 bcanceled, And your pact with Sheol will not stand; When the  aoverwhelming scourge passes through, Then you become its  ctrampling place.

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"As  aoften as it passes through, it will  1seize you; For  bmorning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night, And it will be  2sheer  cterror to understand  3what it means."

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The bed is too short on which to stretch out, And the  ablanket is too  1small to wrap oneself in.

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For the LORD will rise up as at Mount  aPerazim, He will be stirred up as in the valley of  bGibeon, To do His  ctask, His  1 dunusual task, And to work His work, His  2extraordinary work.

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And now do not carry on as  ascoffers, Or your fetters will be made stronger; For I have heard from the Lord  1GOD of hosts Of decisive  bdestruction on all the earth.

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Give ear and hear my voice, Listen and hear my words.

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Does the  1farmer plow  2continually to plant seed? Does he continually  3turn and harrow the ground?

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Does he not level its surface And sow dill and scatter  acummin And  1plant  bwheat in rows, Barley in its place and rye within its  2area?

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For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

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For dill is not threshed with a  athreshing sledge, Nor is the cartwheel  1driven over cummin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club.

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Grain for bread is crushed, Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever. Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually  1damage it, He does not thresh it longer.

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This also comes from the LORD of hosts, Who has made His counsel  awonderful and His wisdom  bgreat.



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