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Date: 08 Feb 2005 02:07:05 AM
Object: Isaiah 28, World English Bible
Isaiah, starting at chapter 28
{28:1} Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to
the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the
fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine! {28:2} Behold, the
Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying
storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast
them down to the earth with his hand. {28:3} The crown of pride of the
drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot. {28:4} The fading
flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile
valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which
someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it. {28:5} In that day,
Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty,
to the residue of his people; {28:6} and a spirit of justice to him
who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle
at the gate. {28:7} They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong
drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are
swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in
vision. They stumble in judgment. {28:8} For all tables are completely
full of filthy vomit and filthiness. {28:9} Whom will he teach
knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned
from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? {28:10} For it is precept
on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a
little, there a little. {28:11} But he will speak to this nation with
stammering lips and in another language; {28:12} to whom he said,
"This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the
refreshing;" yet they would not hear. {28:13} Therefore the word of
Yahweh will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on
line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go,
fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken. {28:14} Therefore
hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people in
Jerusalem: {28:15} "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant
with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing
scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our
refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'" {28:16}
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a
foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure
foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily. {28:17} I will make
justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail
will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the
hiding place. {28:18} Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and
your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing
scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it. {28:19}
As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by
morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be
nothing but terror to understand the message." {28:20} For the bed is
too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap
oneself in. {28:21} For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He
will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his
unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.
{28:22} Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made
strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh
of Armies, on the whole earth.
{28:23} Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!
{28:24} Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep
turning the soil and breaking the clods? {28:25} When he has leveled
its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed,
and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and
the spelt in its place? {28:26} For his God instructs him in right
judgment, and teaches him. {28:27} For the dill are not threshed with
a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but
the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod. {28:28}
Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it.
Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses
don't grind it. {28:29} This also comes forth from Yahweh of Armies,
who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
{29:1} Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year
to year; let the feasts come around; {29:2} then I will distress
Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me
as an [1>]altar hearth[<1]. {29:3} I will encamp against you all
around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will
raise siege works against you. {29:4} You will be brought down, and
will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust.
Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the
ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust. {29:5} But the
multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of
the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an
instant, suddenly. {29:6} She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with
thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm,
and with the flame of a devouring fire. {29:7} The multitude of all
the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her
and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a
vision of the night. {29:8} It will be like when a hungry man dreams,
and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; or
like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes,
and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all
the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that. {29:9}
Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but
not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. {29:10} For
Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed
your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
{29:11} All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is
sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, "Read this,
please;" and he says, "I can't, for it is sealed:" {29:12} and the
book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this,
please;" and he says, "I can't read." {29:13} The Lord said, "Because
this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor
me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of
me is a commandment of men which has been taught; {29:14} therefore,
behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even
a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will
perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden."
{29:15} Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and
whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who
knows us?" {29:16} You turn things upside down! Should the potter be
thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who
made it, "He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say of him who
formed it, "He has no understanding?"
{29:17} Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned
into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a
forest? {29:18} In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book,
and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of
darkness. {29:19} The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh,
and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. {29:20}
For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and
all those who are alert to do evil are cut off--{29:21} who cause a
person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in
the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false
testimony. {29:22} Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no longer be ashamed,
neither shall his face grow pale. {29:23} But when he sees his
children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they will
sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and
will stand in awe of the God of Israel. {29:24} They also who err in
spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive
instruction."
{30:1} "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take
counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my
Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, {30:2} who set out to go down
into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in
the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
{30:3} Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the
refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. {30:4} For their princes
are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes. {30:5} They
shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that
are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach."
{30:6} The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of
trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery
flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young
donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an
unprofitable people. {30:7} For Egypt helps in vain, and to no
purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still. {30:8} Now
go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that
it may be for the time to come forever and ever. {30:9} For it is a
rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law
of Yahweh; {30:10} who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the
prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things.
Prophesy deceits. {30:11} Get out of the way. Turn aside from the
path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." {30:12}
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this
word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;
{30:13} therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to
fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an
instant. {30:14} He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken,
breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found
among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the
hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern." {30:15} For thus said
the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in
returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in
confidence." You refused, {30:16} but you said, "No, for we will flee
on horses;" therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift;"
therefore those who pursue you will be swift. {30:17} One thousand
will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee
until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a
banner on a hill. {30:18} Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be
gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have
mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those
who wait for him. {30:19} For the people will dwell in Zion at
Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at
the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. {30:20}
Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of
affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore, but your eyes
will see your teachers; {30:21} and when you turn to the right hand,
and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you,
saying, "This is the way. Walk in it." {30:22} You shall defile the
overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your
molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing.
You shall tell it, "Go away!" {30:23} He will give the rain for your
seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of
the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock
will feed in large pastures. {30:24} The oxen likewise and the young
donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been
winnowed with the shovel and with the fork. {30:25} There shall be
brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high
hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. {30:26}
Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and
the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of
seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his
people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
{30:27} Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with
his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire. {30:28} His breath
is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the
nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin
will be in the jaws of the peoples. {30:29} You will have a song, as
in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when
one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh's mountain, to Israel's Rock.
{30:30} Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will
show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and
the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
{30:31} For through the voice of Yahweh the Assyrian will be dismayed.
He will strike him with his rod. {30:32} Every stroke of the rod of
punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of
tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing
weapons. {30:33} For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for
the king it is made ready. He has made its pyre deep and large with
fire and much wood. Yahweh's breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles
it.
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Footnotes:
[1] {29:2} or, Ariel
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