Isaiah:28

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* Woe to the crown of pride ge #uwth #, 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 ! * Behold , the Lord hath a mighty and strong one , which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm sa #ar #, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing , shall cast down to the earth with the hand . * The crown of pride ge #uwth #, the drunkards of Ephraim , shall be trodden under feet : * And the glorious beauty tiph #arah #, 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 . * In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory , and for a diadem of beauty tiph #arah #, unto the residue of his people , * And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment , and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate sha #ar #. * But they #el-leh # 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 ro #eh #, they stumble in judgment . * For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness tsow #ah #, so that there is no place clean . * Whom shall he teach knowledge de #ah #? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine sh @muw #ah #? them that are weaned from the milk , and drawn from the breasts . * For precept must be upon precept , precept upon precept ; line upon line , line upon line ; here a little ze #eyr #, and there a little ze #eyr #: * For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people . * To whom he said , This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest ; and this is the refreshing marge #ah #: yet they would not hear . * But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept , precept upon precept ; line upon line , line upon line ; here a little ze #eyr #, and there a little ze #eyr #; that they might go , and fall backward , and be broken , and snared , and taken . * Wherefore hear the word of the LORD , ye scornful men , that rule this people which is in Jerusalem . * 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 (8675 ), it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge , and under falsehood have we hid ourselves : * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 sh @muw #ah #. * 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 . * For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim , he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon Gib #own #, that he may do his work ma #aseh #, his strange work ma #aseh #; and bring to pass his act , his strange act . * 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 . * Give ye ear , and hear my voice ; hearken , and hear my speech . * Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ? * 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 ? * For his God doth instruct him to discretion , and doth teach him . * 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 . * 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 . * This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts , which is wonderful in counsel , and excellent in working .

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