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ULT ISA Chapter 28

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28 Woe to the crown of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim,

yes, to the fading flower, the splendor of its beauty,

which is on the head of a valley of fatnesses

to the ones overcome with wine!

2 Behold, one mighty and strong is to the Lord.

Like a storm of hail, a windstorm of destruction,

like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters,

he casts it down to the earth by his hand.

3 By feet they will be trampled,

the crown of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim.

4 And the fading flower, the splendor of its beauty,

which is on the head of a valley of fatnesses,

will be like the firstfruit before summer:

When one seeing sees it,

while it is still in his palm, he swallows it.

5 In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become

a crown of splendor and a diadem of beauty

for the remnant of his people,

6 and a spirit of justice for the sitter in judgment,

and strength for the ones turning back the battle at the gate.

7 And these also stagger with wine,

and they reel with beer.

The priest and the prophet stagger with beer;

they are swallowed up with wine.

They reel with beer,

they stagger in vision,

they stumble in judgment.

8 For all tables are full of vomit,

filth, without a place.

9 “Whom will he teach knowledge,

and whom will he make understand the report?

The ones weaned from milk,

the ones withdrawn from the breasts?

10 For it is command by command, command by command,

line by line, line by line,

a little here, a little there.”

11 So with stammerings of lip and with another tongue

he will speak to this people,

12 he who said to them,

“This is rest; give rest to the weary,

and this is refreshing.”

But they were not willing to hear.

13 So the word of Yahweh will be to them

command by command, command by command,

line by line, line by line,

a little here, a little there,

so that they may go and stumble backward

and be broken and be ensnared and be captured.

14 Therefore, hear the word of Yahweh,

men of mockery,

rulers of this people

who are in Jerusalem.

15 For you say, “We have cut a covenant with death,

and we have made an agreement with Sheol.

The overflowing scourge, when it passes through,

it will not come to us.

For we have made lying our refuge,

and in falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

16 Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Behold me, laying in Zion a stone, a stone of trial,

a precious cornerstone, a founded foundation.

The one trusting will not hurry.

17 And I will make justice the measuring line

and righteousness the plumb line.

But hail will sweep away the refuge of lying,

and waters will overflow the hiding place.

18 And your covenant with death will be covered over,

and your agreement with Sheol will not stand.

The overflowing scourge, when it passes through,

then you will be to it for trampling.

19 As often as it passes through, it will take you,

for by morning, by morning it will pass through,

by day and by night.

And it will be only terror

to understand the report.”

20 For the bed is too short to stretch oneself out,

and the blanket is narrow as to wrap oneself.

21 For Yahweh will arise as at Mount Perazim,

he will rage as in the Valley of Gibeon,

to work his work—strange is his work—

and to do his deed—foreign is his deed.

22 And now, may you not mock,

lest your bonds strengthen.

For destruction is decreed—

I have heard from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies—

over all of the earth.

23 Listen, and hear my voice;

attend, and hear my word.

24 Is a plowman plowing all of the day to sow?

Does he open and harrow his ground?

25 Or he does not level its face

and scatter black cumin and sprinkle cumin

and put wheat in a row and barley in an appointed place

and spelt at its border?

26 For his God instructs him in judgment;

he teaches him.

27 For black cumin is not threshed with a sledge,

nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin,

but black cumin is beaten with a stick,

and cumin, with a rod.

28 Bread grain is crushed,

but threshing, he does not thresh it forever.

And he drives the wheel of his cart over it,

but his horse does not crush it.

29 This also comes from Yahweh of Armies.

He makes counsel wonderful,

he makes wisdom great.