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World English Bible

Isaiah 28 (WEBP)

[1] Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
[2] Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.
[3] The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
[4] The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer, which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
[5] In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people,
[6] and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
[7] They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
[8] For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.
[9] Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
[10] For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
[11] But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language,
[12] to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to the weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.
[13] Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
[14] Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:
[15] “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
[16] Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
[17] I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
[18] Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.
[19] As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”
[20] For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.
[21] For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.
[22] Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
[23] Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!
[24] Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
[25] When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
[26] For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.
[27] For the dill isn’t threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
[28] Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.
[29] This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

Isaiah 28:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.
Isaiah 28:18 Sheol is the place of the dead.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Isaiah 28 (KJVS)

[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!
[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.
[3] The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
[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.
[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,
[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.
[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.
[8] For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
[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.
[10] For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
[11] for with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
[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.
[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.
[14] Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
[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:
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[21] For 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.
[22] Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
[23] Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
[24] Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
[25] When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
[26] For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
[27] For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
[28] Bread 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.
[29] This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

Isaiah 28:1 Heb. broken
Isaiah 28:3 Heb. with feet
Isaiah 28:4 Heb. swalloweth
Isaiah 28:9 Heb. the hearing
Isaiah 28:10 Or, hath been
Isaiah 28:11a Heb. stammerings of lip
Isaiah 28:11b Or, he hath spoken
Isaiah 28:18 Heb. a treading down to it
Isaiah 28:19 Or, when he shall make you to understand doctrine
Isaiah 28:25a Or, the wheat in the principal place, and barley in the appointed place
Isaiah 28:25b Heb. border
Isaiah 28:26 Or, and he bindeth it in such sort as God doth teach him

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Isaiah 28 (BYZ)

[1] Οὐαὶ () τῷ () στεφάνῳ () τῆς () ὕβρεως, () οἱ () μισθωτοὶ () Εφραιμ· () τὸ () ἄνθος () τὸ () ἐκπεσὸν () ἐκ () τῆς () δόξης () ἐπὶ () τῆς () κορυφῆς τοῦ () ὄρους () τοῦ () παχέος, οἱ () μεθύοντες () ἄνευ () οἴνου. ()
[2] Ἰδοὺ () ἰσχυρὸν () καὶ () σκληρὸν () ὁ () θυμὸς () κυρίου () ὡς () χάλαζα () καταφερομένη () οὐκ () ἔχουσα () σκέπην, βίᾳ () καταφερομένη· () ὡς () ὕδατος () πολὺ () πλῆθος () σῦρον () χώραν () τῇ () γῇ () ποιήσει () ἀνάπαυσιν () ταῖς () χερσίν. ()
[3] Καὶ () τοῖς () ποσὶν () καταπατηθήσεται () ὁ () στέφανος () τῆς () ὕβρεως, () οἱ () μισθωτοὶ () τοῦ () Εφραιμ. ()
[4] Καὶ () ἔσται () τὸ () ἄνθος () τὸ () ἐκπεσὸν () τῆς () ἐλπίδος () τῆς () δόξης () ἐπ’ () ἄκρου () τοῦ () ὄρους () τοῦ () ὑψηλοῦ () ὡς () πρόδρομος () σύκου, () ὁ () ἰδὼν () αὐτὸ () πρὶν () ἢ () εἰς () τὴν () χεῖρα () αὐτοῦ () λαβεῖν () θελήσει () αὐτὸ () καταπιεῖν. ()
[5] Τῇ () ἡμέρᾳ () ἐκείνῃ () ἔσται () κύριος () σαβαωθ () ὁ () στέφανος () τῆς () ἐλπίδος () ὁ () πλακεὶς () τῆς () δόξης () τῷ () καταλειφθέντι () μου () λαῷ· ()
[6] καταλειφθήσονται () ἐπὶ () πνεύματι () κρίσεως () ἐπὶ () κρίσιν () καὶ () ἰσχὺν () κωλύων () ἀνελεῖν. ()—
[7] οὗτοι () γὰρ () οἴνῳ () πεπλανημένοι () εἰσίν, () ἐπλανήθησαν () διὰ () τὸ () σικερα· () ἱερεὺς () καὶ () προφήτης () ἐξέστησαν () διὰ () τὸν () οἶνον, () ἐσείσθησαν () ἀπὸ () τῆς () μέθης () τοῦ () σικερα, () ἐπλανήθησαν· () τοῦτ’ () ἔστι () φάσμα.
[8] Ἀρὰ () ἔδεται ταύτην () τὴν () βουλήν· () αὕτη () γὰρ () ἡ () βουλὴ () ἕνεκεν () πλεονεξίας. ()
[9] Τίνι () ἀνηγγείλαμεν () κακὰ () καὶ () τίνι () ἀνηγγείλαμεν () ἀγγελίαν, () οἱ () ἀπογεγαλακτισμένοι ἀπὸ () γάλακτος, () οἱ () ἀπεσπασμένοι () ἀπὸ () μαστοῦ; ()
[10] Θλῖψιν () ἐπὶ () θλῖψιν () προσδέχου, () ἐλπίδα () ἐπ’ () ἐλπίδι, () ἔτι () μικρὸν ἔτι () μικρὸν
[11] διὰ () φαυλισμὸν χειλέων () διὰ () γλώσσης () ἑτέρας, () ὅτι () λαλήσουσιν () τῷ () λαῷ () τούτῳ ()
[12] λέγοντες () αὐτῷ () Τοῦτο () τὸ () ἀνάπαυμα τῷ () πεινῶντι () καὶ () τοῦτο () τὸ () σύντριμμα, () καὶ () οὐκ () ἠθέλησαν () ἀκούειν. ()
[13] Καὶ () ἔσται () αὐτοῖς () τὸ () λόγιον () κυρίου () τοῦ () θεοῦ () θλῖψις () ἐπὶ () θλῖψιν, () ἐλπὶς () ἐπ’ () ἐλπίδι, () ἔτι () μικρὸν ἔτι () μικρόν, ἵνα () πορευθῶσιν () καὶ () πέσωσιν () εἰς () τὰ () ὀπίσω () καὶ () κινδυνεύσουσιν () καὶ () συντριβήσονται () καὶ () ἁλώσονται.—
[14] διὰ () τοῦτο () ἀκούσατε () λόγον () κυρίου, () ἄνδρες () τεθλιμμένοι () καὶ () ἄρχοντες () τοῦ () λαοῦ () τούτου () τοῦ () ἐν () Ιερουσαλημ ()
[15] Ὅτι () εἴπατε () Ἐποιήσαμεν () διαθήκην () μετὰ () τοῦ () ᾅδου () καὶ () μετὰ () τοῦ () θανάτου () συνθήκας, καταιγὶς φερομένη () ἐὰν () παρέλθῃ () οὐ () μὴ () ἔλθῃ () ἐφ’ () ἡμᾶς, () ἐθήκαμεν () ψεῦδος () τὴν () ἐλπίδα () ἡμῶν () καὶ () τῷ () ψεύδει () σκεπασθησόμεθα,
[16] διὰ () τοῦτο () οὕτως () λέγει () κύριος () Ἰδοὺ () ἐγὼ () ἐμβαλῶ () εἰς () τὰ () θεμέλια () Σιων () λίθον () πολυτελῆ () ἐκλεκτὸν () ἀκρογωνιαῖον () ἔντιμον () εἰς () τὰ () θεμέλια () αὐτῆς, () καὶ () ὁ () πιστεύων () ἐπ’ () αὐτῷ () οὐ () μὴ () καταισχυνθῇ. ()
[17] Καὶ () θήσω () κρίσιν () εἰς () ἐλπίδα, () ἡ () δὲ () ἐλεημοσύνη () μου () εἰς () σταθμούς, καὶ () οἱ () πεποιθότες () μάτην () ψεύδει· () ὅτι () οὐ () μὴ () παρέλθῃ () ὑμᾶς () καταιγίς,
[18] μὴ () καὶ () ἀφέλῃ () ὑμῶν () τὴν () διαθήκην () τοῦ () θανάτου, () καὶ () ἡ () ἐλπὶς () ὑμῶν () ἡ () πρὸς () τὸν () ᾅδην () οὐ () μὴ () ἐμμείνῃ· () καταιγὶς φερομένη () ἐὰν () ἐπέλθῃ, () ἔσεσθε () αὐτῇ () εἰς () καταπάτημα.
[19] Ὅταν () παρέλθῃ, () λήμψεται () ὑμᾶς· () πρωῒ () πρωῒ () παρελεύσεται () ἡμέρας, () καὶ () ἐν () νυκτὶ () ἔσται () ἐλπὶς () πονηρά· () μάθετε () ἀκούειν. ()
[20] Στενοχωρούμενοι () οὐ () δυνάμεθα () μάχεσθαι, () αὐτοὶ () δὲ () ἀσθενοῦμεν () τοῦ () ἡμᾶς () συναχθῆναι. ()
[21] Ὥσπερ () ὄρος () ἀσεβῶν () ἀναστήσεται () καὶ () ἔσται () ἐν () τῇ () φάραγγι () Γαβαων· μετὰ () θυμοῦ () ποιήσει () τὰ () ἔργα () αὐτοῦ, () πικρίας () ἔργον· () ὁ () δὲ () θυμὸς () αὐτοῦ () ἀλλοτρίως χρήσεται, () καὶ () ἡ () πικρία () αὐτοῦ () ἀλλοτρία. ()
[22] Καὶ () ὑμεῖς () μὴ () εὐφρανθείητε, () μηδὲ () ἰσχυσάτωσαν () ὑμῶν () οἱ () δεσμοί· () διότι () συντετελεσμένα () καὶ () συντετμημένα () πράγματα () ἤκουσα () παρὰ () κυρίου () σαβαωθ, () ἃ () ποιήσει () ἐπὶ () πᾶσαν () τὴν () γῆν. ()
[23] Ἐνωτίζεσθε () καὶ () ἀκούετε () τῆς () φωνῆς () μου, () προσέχετε () καὶ () ἀκούετε () τοὺς () λόγους () μου. ()
[24] Μὴ () ὅλην () τὴν () ἡμέραν () μέλλει () ὁ () ἀροτριῶν () ἀροτριᾶν; () Ἢ () σπόρον () προετοιμάσει () πρὶν () ἐργάσασθαι () τὴν () γῆν; ()
[25] Οὐχ () ὅταν () ὁμαλίσῃ αὐτῆς () τὸ () πρόσωπον, () τότε () σπείρει () μικρὸν () μελάνθιον καὶ () κύμινον () καὶ () πάλιν () σπείρει () πυρὸν καὶ () κριθὴν () καὶ () ζέαν ἐν () τοῖς () ὁρίοις () σου; ()
[26] Καὶ () παιδευθήσῃ () κρίματι () θεοῦ () σου () καὶ () εὐφρανθήσῃ. ()
[27] Οὐ () γὰρ () μετὰ () σκληρότητος () καθαίρεται () τὸ () μελάνθιον, οὐδὲ () τροχὸς () ἁμάξης περιάξει () ἐπὶ () τὸ () κύμινον, () ἀλλὰ () ῥάβδῳ () ἐκτινάσσεται () τὸ () μελάνθιον, τὸ () δὲ () κύμινον ()
[28] μετὰ () ἄρτου () βρωθήσεται. () Οὐ () γὰρ () εἰς () τὸν () αἰῶνα () ἐγὼ () ὑμῖν () ὀργισθήσομαι, () οὐδὲ () φωνὴ () τῆς () πικρίας () μου () καταπατήσει () ὑμᾶς. ()
[29] Καὶ () ταῦτα () παρὰ () κυρίου () σαβαωθ () ἐξῆλθεν () τὰ () τέρατα· () βουλεύσασθε, () ὑψώσατε () ματαίαν () παράκλησιν. ()

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.