Isaiah 28:11-29

11Indeed, He will speak to this people Through 1stammering lips and a foreign tongue,12He who said to them, “Here is 2rest, give rest to the weary,” And, “Here is repose,” but they would not listen.13So the word of the Lord to them will be, “3Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and 4stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.14Therefore, 5hear the word of the Lord, O 6scoffers, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,15Because you have said, “We have made a 7covenant with death, And with 8Sheol we have made a 9pact. 10The overwhelming 11scourge will not reach us when it passes by, For we have made 12falsehood our refuge and we have 13concealed ourselves with deception.” 16Therefore thus says the Lord 14God, “15Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested 16stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, 17firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be 18disturbed.17I will make 19justice the measuring line And righteousness the level; Then 20hail will sweep away the refuge of lies And the waters will overflow the secret place.18Your 21covenant with death will be 2223canceled, And your pact with Sheol will not stand; When the 24overwhelming scourge passes through, Then you become its 25trampling place.19As 26often as it passes through, it will 27seize you; For 28morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night, And it will be 29sheer 30terror to understand 31what it means.”20The bed is too short on which to stretch out, And the 32blanket is too 33small to wrap oneself in.21For the Lord will rise up as at Mount 34Perazim, He will be stirred up as in the valley of 35Gibeon, To do His 36task, His 3738unusual task, And to work His work, His 39extraordinary work.22And now do not carry on as 40scoffers, Or your fetters will be made stronger; For I have heard from the Lord 41God of hosts Of decisive 42destruction on all the earth.

23Give ear and hear my voice, Listen and hear my words.24Does the 43farmer plow 44continually to plant seed? Does he continually 45turn and harrow the ground?25Does he not level its surface And sow dill and scatter 46cummin And 47plant 48wheat in rows, Barley in its place and rye within its 49area?26For his God instructs and teaches him properly.27For dill is not threshed with a 50threshing sledge, Nor is the cartwheel 51driven over cummin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club.28Grain for bread is crushed, Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever. Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually 52damage it, He does not thresh it longer.29This also comes from the Lord of hosts, Who has made His counsel 53wonderful and His wisdom 54great.