Isaiah 28

1Woe 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!Cross-references: 2Ki 14:25 · 2Ki 15:29 · 2Ki 18:10 · 2Chr 28:6 · 2Chr 30:6 · Prov 23:29 · +15 more

2Behold, 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.Cross-references: Isa 8:7 · Isa 9:9 · Isa 25:4 · Isa 27:1 · Isa 28:15 · Isa 29:6 · +7 more

3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:33 · Isa 25:10 · Isa 26:6 · Isa 28:1 · Lam 1:15 · Dan 8:13 · +2 more

4The 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.Cross-references: Ps 73:19 · Isa 28:1 · Hos 6:4 · Hos 9:10 · Hos 9:16 · Hos 13:1 · +5 more

5In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people,Cross-references: Job 29:14 · Ps 90:16 · Isa 10:20 · Isa 11:16 · Isa 37:31 · Isa 41:16 · +11 more

6and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.Cross-references: Gen 41:38 · Num 11:16 · Num 27:16 · Deut 20:4 · Josh 1:9 · 1Ki 3:28 · +11 more

7They 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.Cross-references: Lev 10:9 · Ps 107:27 · Prov 20:1 · Prov 31:4 · Eccl 10:17 · Isa 3:12 · +19 more

8For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.Cross-references: Prov 26:11 · Jer 48:26 · Hab 2:15

9Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?Cross-references: Ps 50:17 · Ps 131:2 · Prov 1:29 · Isa 28:26 · Isa 30:10 · Isa 30:20 · +13 more

10For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.Cross-references: Deut 6:1 · 2Chr 36:15 · Neh 9:29 · Isa 5:4 · Isa 28:13 · Jer 11:7 · +5 more

11But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language,Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Isa 33:19 · Jer 5:15 · 1Cor 14:21

12to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to the weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.Cross-references: 2Chr 14:11 · 2Chr 16:8 · Ps 81:11 · Isa 11:10 · Isa 30:15 · Jer 6:16 · +5 more

13Therefore 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.Cross-references: Ps 69:22 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 8:14 · Isa 28:10 · Jer 23:36 · Hos 6:5 · +7 more

14Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:Cross-references: Prov 1:22 · Prov 3:34 · Prov 29:8 · Isa 1:10 · Isa 5:9 · Isa 28:22 · +3 more

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.’”Cross-references: Job 5:23 · Job 15:25 · Eccl 8:8 · Isa 5:18 · Isa 8:7 · Isa 9:15 · +19 more

16Therefore 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.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Gen 49:24 · Ps 112:7 · Ps 118:22 · Isa 8:14 · Isa 30:18 · +12 more

17I 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.Cross-references: Ex 9:18 · Josh 10:11 · 2Ki 21:13 · Job 22:16 · Ps 94:15 · Isa 5:16 · +25 more

18Your 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.Cross-references: Isa 2:15 · Isa 7:7 · Isa 8:8 · Isa 8:10 · Isa 28:3 · Isa 28:15 · +10 more

19As 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.”Cross-references: 1Sam 3:11 · 2Ki 17:6 · 2Ki 18:13 · 2Ki 21:12 · 2Ki 24:2 · Job 18:11 · +11 more

20For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.Cross-references: Isa 57:12 · Isa 59:5 · Isa 64:6 · Isa 66:3 · Jer 7:8 · Rom 9:30 · +1 more

21For 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.Cross-references: Deut 29:21 · Josh 10:10 · Josh 10:12 · 2Sam 5:20 · 2Sam 5:25 · 1Chr 14:11 · +9 more

22Now 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.Cross-references: 2Chr 30:10 · 2Chr 33:11 · 2Chr 36:16 · Ps 107:16 · Isa 10:22 · Isa 24:1 · +14 more

23Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!Cross-references: Deut 32:1 · Isa 1:2 · Jer 22:29 · Rev 2:7 · Rev 2:11 · Rev 2:14 · +1 more

24Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?Cross-references: Jer 4:3 · Hos 10:11

25When 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?Cross-references: Ex 9:31 · Ezek 4:9 · Matt 23:23

26For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.Cross-references: Ex 28:3 · Ex 31:3 · Ex 36:2 · Job 35:11 · Job 39:17 · Ps 144:1 · +2 more

27For 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 13:7 · Isa 27:7 · Isa 41:15 · Jer 10:24 · Jer 46:28 · Amos 1:3

28Bread 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.Cross-references: Isa 21:10 · Amos 9:9 · Matt 3:12 · Matt 13:37 · Luke 22:31 · John 12:24 · +2 more

29This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.Cross-references: Job 5:9 · Job 37:23 · Ps 40:5 · Ps 92:5 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 28:21 · +3 more