Isaiah 28
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Isaiah 28:7-19

7And these also 1reel with wine and stagger from strong drink: 2The priest and 3the prophet reel with strong drink, They are confused by wine, they stagger from 4strong drink; They reel while 5having 6visions, They totter when rendering judgment.8For all the tables are full of filthy 7vomit, without a single clean place.

9“To 8whom would He teach knowledge, And to whom would He interpret the message? Those just 9weaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast?10For He says, ‘1011Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.’”11Indeed, He will speak to this people Through 12stammering lips and a foreign tongue,12He who said to them, “Here is 13rest, give rest to the weary,” And, “Here is repose,” but they would not listen.13So the word of the Lord to them will be, “14Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and 15stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.14Therefore, 16hear the word of the Lord, O 17scoffers, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,15Because you have said, “We have made a 18covenant with death, And with 19Sheol we have made a 20pact. 21The overwhelming 22scourge will not reach us when it passes by, For we have made 23falsehood our refuge and we have 24concealed ourselves with deception.” 16Therefore thus says the Lord 25God, “26Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested 27stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, 28firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be 29disturbed.17I will make 30justice the measuring line And righteousness the level; Then 31hail will sweep away the refuge of lies And the waters will overflow the secret place.18Your 32covenant with death will be 3334canceled, And your pact with Sheol will not stand; When the 35overwhelming scourge passes through, Then you become its 36trampling place.19As 37often as it passes through, it will 38seize you; For 39morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night, And it will be 40sheer 41terror to understand 42what it means.”

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Notes

  1. 1. Isaiah 28:7 Is 5:11, 22; 22:13; 56:12; Hos 4:11 ↩
  2. 2. Isaiah 28:7 Is 24:2 ↩
  3. 3. Isaiah 28:7 Is 9:15 ↩
  4. 4. Isaiah 28:7 Hab 2:15, 16 ↩
  5. 5. Isaiah 28:7 Lit seeing ↩
  6. 6. Isaiah 28:7 Is 29:11 ↩
  7. 7. Isaiah 28:8 Jer 48:26 ↩
  8. 8. Isaiah 28:9 Is 2:3; 28:26; 30:20; 48:17; 50:4; 54:13 ↩
  9. 9. Isaiah 28:9 Ps 131:2 ↩
  10. 10. Isaiah 28:10 Heb Sav lasav, sav lasav, Kav lakav, kav lakav, Ze’ er sham, ze’ er sham These Hebrew monosyllables, imitating the babbling of a child, mock the prophet’s preaching ↩
  11. 11. Isaiah 28:10 2 Chr 36:15; Neh 9:30 ↩
  12. 12. Isaiah 28:11 Is 33:19; 1 Cor 14:21 ↩
  13. 13. Isaiah 28:12 Is 11:10; 30:15; 32:17, 18; Jer 6:16; Matt 11:28, 29 ↩
  14. 14. Isaiah 28:13 V 10, note 1 The Lord responds to their scoffing by imitating their mockery, to represent the unintelligible language of a conqueror ↩
  15. 15. Isaiah 28:13 Is 8:15; Matt 21:44 ↩
  16. 16. Isaiah 28:14 Is 1:10; 28:22 ↩
  17. 17. Isaiah 28:14 Is 29:20 ↩
  18. 18. Isaiah 28:15 Is 28:18 ↩
  19. 19. Isaiah 28:15 I.e. the nether world ↩
  20. 20. Isaiah 28:15 So some ancient versions; Heb seer ↩
  21. 21. Isaiah 28:15 Is 8:8; 28:2; 30:28; Dan 11:22 ↩
  22. 22. Isaiah 28:15 Or flood ↩
  23. 23. Isaiah 28:15 Is 9:15; 30:9; 44:20; 59:3, 4; Ezek 13:22 ↩
  24. 24. Isaiah 28:15 Is 29:15 ↩
  25. 25. Isaiah 28:16 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord ↩
  26. 26. Isaiah 28:16 Rom 9:33; 10:11; 1 Pet 2:6 ↩
  27. 27. Isaiah 28:16 Ps 118:22; Is 8:14, 15; Matt 21:42; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11; Eph 2:20 ↩
  28. 28. Isaiah 28:16 Lit well-laid ↩
  29. 29. Isaiah 28:16 Lit in a hurry ↩
  30. 30. Isaiah 28:17 2 Kin 21:13; Is 5:16; 30:18; 61:8; Amos 7:7-9 ↩
  31. 31. Isaiah 28:17 Is 28:2 ↩
  32. 32. Isaiah 28:18 Is 28:15 ↩
  33. 33. Isaiah 28:18 Lit covered over ↩
  34. 34. Isaiah 28:18 Is 7:7; 8:10 ↩
  35. 35. Isaiah 28:18 Is 28:15 ↩
  36. 36. Isaiah 28:18 Is 28:3; Dan 8:13 ↩
  37. 37. Isaiah 28:19 2 Kin 24:2 ↩
  38. 38. Isaiah 28:19 Lit take ↩
  39. 39. Isaiah 28:19 Is 50:4 ↩
  40. 40. Isaiah 28:19 Lit only ↩
  41. 41. Isaiah 28:19 Job 6:4; 18:11; 24:17; Ps 55:4; 88:15; Lam 2:22 ↩
  42. 42. Isaiah 28:19 Lit the report, or, the message ↩

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