Berean Standard Bible

Isaiah 28:5-15

5On that day the LORD of Hosts will be a crown of glory, a diadem of splendor to the remnant of His people,6a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

7These also stagger from wineand stumble from strong drink:Priests and prophets reel from strong drinkand are befuddled by wine.They stumble because of strong drink,muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.8For all their tables are covered with vomit;there is not a place without filth.

9Whom is He trying to teach?To whom is He explaining His message?To infants just weaned from milk?To babies removed from the breast?10For they hear:1“Order on order, order on order,line on line, line on line;2a little here, a little there.”11Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues,He will speak to this people3 12to whom He has said:“This is the place of rest, let the weary rest;this is the place of repose.”

But they would not listen.

13Then the word of the LORD to them will become:“Order on order, order on order,line on line, line on line;a little here, a little there,”so that they will go stumbling backwardand will be injured, ensnared, and captured.

14Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scofferswho rule this people in Jerusalem.15For you said, “We have made a covenant with death;we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol.When the overwhelming scourge passes throughit will not touch us,because we have made lies our refugeand falsehood4 our hiding place.”

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Notes

1. Isaiah 28:10 Or For He says or For it is; literally For ↩
2. Isaiah 28:10 Or Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; Hebrew sav lasav sav lasav kav lakav kav lakav (possibly meaningless sounds to demonstrate an inability to understand); also in verse 13 ↩
3. Isaiah 28:11 Cited in 1 Corinthians 14:21 ↩
4. Isaiah 28:15 Or false gods ↩

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