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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 28 King James 2000</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/28.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/28-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">King James 2000</a> > Isaiah 28</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/27.htm" title="Isaiah 27">◄</a> Isaiah 28 <a href="../isaiah/29.htm" title="Isaiah 29">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">King James 2000</div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Woe to Ephraim</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="black">Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which is on the head of the rich valleys of them that are overcome with wine!</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="black">Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, which like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with his hand.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="black">The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under foot:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="black">And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the early fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees it, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="black">In that day shall the LORD of hosts be a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the remnant of his people,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="black">And for a spirit of justice to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="black">But they 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 by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="black">For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="black">Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and taken from the breasts.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="black">For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="black">For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="black">To whom he said,</span> <span class="red">This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing:</span> <span class="black">yet they would not hear.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="black">But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="black">Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people who are in Jerusalem.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="black">Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:</span></p> <p class="heading">A Cornerstone in Zion</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="black">Therefore thus says the Lord GOD,</span> <span class="red">Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not be in haste.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">Justice also will I make the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be beaten down by it.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a terror just to understand the report.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="black">For the bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself upon: and the covering narrower than he can wrap himself in.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="black">For the LORD shall rise up as on mount Perazim, he shall be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his awesome work; and bring to pass his act, his alien act.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="black">Now therefore be not mockers, lest your bonds be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a destruction, even determined upon the whole earth.</span></p> <p class="heading">Hear God's Voice</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="black">Give ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="black">Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? does he keep opening and breaking the clods of his ground?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="black">When he has made level the face of it, does he not sow the dill, and scatter the cummin, and plant the wheat in rows and the barley and the spelt in their places?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="black">For his God does instruct him aright, and does teach him.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="black">For the dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, neither is a cart wheel rolled over the cummin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cummin with a rod.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="black">Bread grain is ground; therefore he will not forever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with his horsemen.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/28-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="black">This also comes forth from the LORD of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The King James 2000 Bible, copyright © Doctor of Theology Robert A. 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