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The priest and the prophet have been ignorant because of inebriation. They have been absorbed by wine. They have staggered in drunkenness. They have not known the One who sees. They have been ignorant of judgment.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For all the tables have been filled with vomit and filth, so much so that there was no place left.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>To whom will he teach knowledge? And to whom will he grant an understanding of what is heard? To those who have been weaned from the milk, who have been pulled away from the breasts.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So then: command, and command again; command, and command again; expect, and expect again; a little here, and a little there.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For with the speech of lips and with a different language, he will speak to this people.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He said to them: “This is my rest. Refresh the weary,” and, “This is my refreshment.” And yet they were unwilling to listen.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And so, the word of the Lord to them will be: “Command, and command again; command, and command again; expect, and expect again; a little here, and a little there,” so that they may go forward and fall backward, and so that they may be broken and ensnared and captured.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">A Cornerstone in Zion<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_corinthians/3.htm#10">1 Corinthians 3:10–15</a>; <a href ="../ephesians/2.htm#19">Ephesians 2:19–22</a>; <a href ="../1_peter/2.htm">1 Peter 2:1–8</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Because of this, listen to the word of the Lord, you mocking men, who lord it over my people who are at Jerusalem.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For you have said: “We struck a deal with death, and we formed a pact with Hell. When the inundating scourge passes through, it will not overwhelm us. For we have placed our hope in lies, and we are protected by what is false.”<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For this reason, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will set a stone within the foundations of Zion, a tested stone, a cornerstone, a precious stone, which has been established in the foundation: whoever trusts in him need not hurry.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I will establish judgment in weights, and justice in measures. And a hailstorm will overturn hope in what is false; and waters will inundate its protection.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And your deal with death will be abolished, and your pact with Hell will not stand. When the inundating scourge passes through, you will be trampled down by it.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Whenever it passes through, it will take you away. For, at first light of morning, it will pass through, in the day and in the night, and vexation alone will make you understand what you hear.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the bed has been narrowed, so much so that one alone would fall out, and the short blanket is not able to cover two.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the Lord will stand, just as at the mountain of divisions. He will be angry, just as in the valley which is in Gibeon, so that he may accomplish his work, his strange work, so that he may complete his work, his work which is foreign even to him.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And now, do not be willing to mock, lest your chains be tightened. For I have heard, from the Lord, the God of hosts, about the consummation and the abridgement concerning the entire earth.<p> <A name="24"></a><p class="hdg">Listen and Hear<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Pay close attention, and listen to my voice! Attend and hear my eloquence!<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Would the plowman, after plowing all day so that he may sow, instead cut open and hoe his soil?<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Will he not, when he has made the surface level, sow coriander, and scatter cumin, and plant wheat in rows, and barley, and millet, and vetch in their places?<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For he will be instructed in judgment; his God will teach him.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For coriander cannot be threshed with a saw, and a cartwheel cannot revolve over cumin. Instead, coriander is shaken out with a stick, and cumin with a staff.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But grain for bread must be crushed. Truly, the thresher cannot thresh it unceasingly, and the cartwheel can neither disrupt it, nor break it with its surface.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And this has gone forth from the Lord, the God of hosts, so that he may accomplish his miraculous plan and magnify justice.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/27.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 27"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 27" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/29.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 29"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 29" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>