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Judgment against the Leaders of Ephraim

28 Ah! The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim
- and the withering flower of the glory of his beauty,
which is at the head of the rich valley ,[fn]
- ones overcome[fn] with wine!
2 Look! The Lord has a mighty and strong one,
- like a rainstorm of hail, a wind storm of destruction,
- like a rainstorm of mighty overflowing waters,
he will put them to the earth with his hand.
3 The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim
- will be trampled[fn] by feet,
4 and the withering flower of the glory of its beauty
- which is at the head of the rich valley[fn]
will be like its early fig before summer,
- which the one who sees it swallows[fn] while it is still in his hand.
5 In that day, Yahweh of hosts will become a garland of glory
- and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of his people,
6 and a spirit of justice to the one who sits over judgment,
- and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
7 And these also stagger because of wine
- and stagger because of strong drink;
priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink;
- they are confused[fn] because of wine.
They stagger because of strong drink;
- they err in vision.
They stagger in the rendering of a decision,
- 8 for all the tables are full of disgusting vomit, with no place left .[fn]
9 To whom will he teach knowledge,
- and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from milk,
- those taken from the breast?
10 For it is blah-blah upon blah-blah,
- blah-blah upon blah-blah,
gah-gah upon gah-gah,
- gah-gah upon gah-gah,[fn]
a little here, a little there.

11 For he will speak with ⌊stammering⌋[fn] and another tongue to this people, 12 to whom he has said,

“This is rest; give rest to the weary;
- and this is repose”; yet[fn] they were not willing to hear.
NOTNOT

13 And to them the word of Yahweh will be

blah-blah upon blah-blah
- blah-blah upon blah-blah
gah-gah upon gah-gah
- gah-gah upon gah-gah,[fn]
a little here, a little there,
so that they may go and stumble backward
- and be broken and ensnared and captured.
NOTNOT

The Cornerstone of Zion

14 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery,
- rulers of these people in Jerusalem:
NOTNOT

15 Because you have said,

“We have made[fn] a covenant with death,
- and we have made an agreement with Sheol.
NOTNOT

The overwhelming flood, when it passes through, will not come to us,

for we have made lies[fn] our refuge,
and we have hidden ourselves in falsehood.”

16 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this:

“Look! I am laying a stone in Zion,
- a tested[fn] stone,
a precious cornerstone,
- a founded foundation:
NOTNOT

‘The one who trusts will not ⌊panic⌋.’[fn]

17 And I will make justice the measuring line,
- and righteousness the plumb line;
and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,[fn]
- and waters will flood over the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death will be annulled,
- and your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
you will become a trampling place for the overwhelming flood when it passes through.
- 19 As often as it passes through ,[fn] it will take you,
for morning by morning[fn] it will pass through,
- in the day and in the night,
NOTNOT

and understanding the message will be only terror.”

20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on ,[fn]
- and the covering is too narrow when wrapping oneself.
21 For Yahweh will rise up as at Mount Perazim;
- he will rave as in the valley at Gibeon
to do his deed—his deed is strange—
- and to work his work—his work is alien!
22 And now you must not scoff,
- or your bonds will be strong,
NOTNOT

for I have heard from the Lord, Yahweh of hosts:

complete destruction
- decreed upon all the land.
NOTNOT

A Parable of Yahweh’s Work

23 Listen, and hear my voice!
- Listen attentively, and hear my word!
24 Is it all day that the plowman plows,
- opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?
25 When he has leveled its surface ,[fn] does he not scatter dill,
- and sow cumin seed,
- and plant[fn] wheat in planted rows,[fn]
- and barley in an appointed place,
- and spelt grain as its border?
26 And his God instructs him about the prescription;[fn]
- he teaches him.
27 For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
- nor is a wheel of a utility cart rolled[fn] over cumin,
but dill is beaten out with a stick,
- and cumin with a rod.
28 Grain is crushed fine,
- but certainly one does not thresh it forever;
and one drives the wheel of his cart,
- but his horses do not crush it.
NOTNOT

29 This also comes forth from Yahweh of hosts.

He is wonderful in advice;
- he makes great wisdom.

28:? Literally “a valley of fat”

28:? Literally “ones struck”

28:? The Hebrew is plural

28:? Literally “a valley of fat”

28:? Literally “Which, when the one who sees it sees it, he swallows it”

28:? Or “swallowed”

28:? Literally “without a place”

28:? In this context, the Hebrew expressions tsaw-tsaw and qaw-qaw are likely meant to sound like baby talk, but they could mean “command upon command” and “rule upon rule”

28:11 Literally “stammer of lip”

28:12 Or “and”

28:13 In this context, the Hebrew expressions tsaw-tsaw and qaw-qaw are likely meant to sound like baby talk, but they could mean “command upon command” and “rule upon rule”

28:15 Literally “cut”

28:15 Hebrew “lie”

28:16 Literally “testing”

28:16 Literally “hurry”

28:16 Hebrew “lie”

28:16 Literally “From enough his passing through”

28:16 Literally “in the morning in the morning”

28:16 Literally “from stretching oneself”

28:16 Literally “face”

28:16 Literally “place”

28:16 Hebrew “row”

28:16 That is, “the proper way”

28:16 Literally “turned”

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Judgment against the Leaders of Ephraim