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<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>For <i>He says,</i><br>         Order on order, order on order,<br>         Line on line, line on line,<br>         A little here, a little there. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Indeed, He will speak to this people<br>         Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>He who said to them, Here is rest, give rest to the weary,<br>         And, Here is repose, but they would not listen. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>So the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> to them will be,<br>         Order on order, order on order,<br>         Line on line, line on line,<br>         A little here, a little there,<br>         That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Judah Is Warned</i></b></font><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore, hear the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, O scoffers,<br>         Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death,<br>         And with Sheol we have made a pact.<br>         The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by,<br>         For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception.<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font>,<br>         Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone,<br>         A costly cornerstone <i>for</i> the foundation, firmly placed.<br>         He who believes <i>in it</i> will not be disturbed. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>I will make justice the measuring line<br>         And righteousness the level;<br>         Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies<br>         And the waters will overflow the secret place. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Your covenant with death will be canceled,<br>         And your pact with Sheol will not stand;<br>         When the overwhelming scourge passes through,<br>         Then you become its trampling <i>place.</i> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>As often as it passes through, it will seize you;<br>         For morning after morning it will pass through, <i>anytime</i> during the day or night,<br>         And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>The bed is too short on which to stretch out,<br>         And the blanket is too small to wrap oneself in. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>For the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will rise up as <i>at</i> Mount Perazim,<br>         He will be stirred up as in the valley of Gibeon,<br>         To do His task, His unusual task,<br>         And to work His work, His extraordinary work. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>And now do not carry on as scoffers,<br>         Or your fetters will be made stronger;<br>         For I have heard from the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font> of hosts<br>         Of decisive destruction on all the earth. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Give ear and hear my voice,<br>         Listen and hear my words. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed?<br>         Does he <i>continually</i> turn and harrow the ground? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Does he not level its surface<br>         And sow dill and scatter cummin<br>         And plant wheat in rows,<br>         Barley in its place and rye within its area? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>For his God instructs and teaches him properly. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,<br>         Nor is the cartwheel driven over cummin;<br>         But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span><i>Grain for</i> bread is crushed,<br>         Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever.<br>         Because the wheel of <i>his</i> cart and his horses <i>eventually</i> damage <i>it,</i><br>         He does not thresh it longer. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>This also comes from the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts,<br>         <i>Who</i> has made <i>His</i> counsel wonderful and <i>His</i> wisdom great. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/28.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/28.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are drawn away from the breasts. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/isaiah/28.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the report? Them that are weaned from the milk, withdrawn from the breasts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/28.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/28.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/28.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/28.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/june_8_bread_corn_is.htm">June 8. "Bread Corn is Bruised" (Isa. xxviii. 28). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Bread corn is bruised" (Isa. xxviii. 28). The farmer does not gather timothy and blue grass, and break it with a heavy machine. But he takes great pains with the wheat. So God takes great pains with those who are to be of much use to Him. There is a nature in them that needs this discipline. Don't wonder if the bread corn is treated with the wise, discriminating care that will fit it for food. He knows the way He is taking, and there is infinite tenderness in the oversight He gives. He is watching <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/june_8_bread_corn_is.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_foundation_of_god.htm">The Foundation of God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.'--ISAIAH xxviii. 16. 'Therefore thus saith the Lord.' Then these great words are God's answer to something. And that something is the scornful defiance by the rulers of Israel of the prophet's threatenings. By their deeds, whether by their words or no, they said that they had made friends of their enemies, and that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_foundation_of_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/gods_strange_work.htm">God's Strange Work</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'That He may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act.'--ISAIAH xxviii. 21. How the great events of one generation fall dead to another! There is something very pathetic in the oblivion that swallows up world- resounding deeds. Here the prophet selects two instances which to him are solemn and singular examples of divine judgment, and we have difficulty in finding out to what he refers. To him they seemed the most luminous illustrations he could find of the principle <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/gods_strange_work.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/mans_crown_and_gods.htm">Man's Crown and God's</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty.'--ISAIAH xxviii. 5. 'Thou shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord.'--ISAIAH lxii 3. Connection of first prophecy--destruction of Samaria. Its situation, crowning the hill with its walls and towers, its fertile 'fat valley,' the flagrant immorality and drunkenness of its inhabitants, and its final ruin, are all presented in the highly imaginative picture of its fall as being like the trampling <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/mans_crown_and_gods.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_judgment_of_drunkards_and.htm">The Judgment of Drunkards and Mockers</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 2. Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which, as a tempest of hail, and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3. The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: 4. And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_judgment_of_drunkards_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_husbandman_and_his_operations.htm">The Husbandman and his Operations</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. 24. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground! 25. When lie hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? 26. For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27. For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_husbandman_and_his_operations.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/a_crown_op_pride_or.htm">A Crown Op Pride or a Crown of Glory</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet; 4. And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. 5. In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people.'--ISAIAH xxviii. 3-5. The reference is probably to Samaria as a chief city of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/a_crown_op_pride_or.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_5_1859/the_bed_and_its_covering.htm">The Bed and Its Covering</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Now, I think it may be readily granted, that man's body is, after all, only a picture of his inner being: just what the body needs materially, that the soul needs spiritually. The soul, then, needs two things. It requires rest, which is pictured to us in sleep. The soul needs a bed upon which it may repose quietly and take its ease. And, again, the soul needs covering, for as a naked body would be both uncomfortable, unseemly, and dangerous; much more would the naked soul be unhappy, noxious to the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_5_1859/the_bed_and_its_covering.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 5: 1859</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_2/sermon_xxxvii_the_extent_of.htm">The Extent of Messiah's Spiritual Kingdom</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever! T he Kingdom of our Lord in the heart, and in the world, is frequently compared to a building or house, of which He Himself is both the Foundation and the Architect (Isaiah 28:16 and 54:11, 12) . A building advances by degrees (I Corinthians 3:9; Ephesians 2:20-22) , and while it is in an unfinished state, a stranger cannot, by viewing its present appearance, form an accurate judgment <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_2/sermon_xxxvii_the_extent_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton—</span><span class="citation2">Messiah Vol. 2</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/lecture_xv_of_predestination.htm">Of Predestination</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Eph. i. 11.--"In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will."--Rom. ix. 22, 23.--"What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had afore prepared unto glory." In the creation of the world, it pleased the Lord, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/lecture_xv_of_predestination.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_56_samaria_sychem.htm">Samaria. Sychem. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"The country of Samaria lies in the middle, between Judea and Galilee. For it begins at a town called Ginea, lying in the Great plain, and ends at the Toparchy of the Acrabateni: the nature of it nothing differing from Judea," &c. [Acrabata was distant from Jerusalem, the space of a day's journey northwards.] Samaria, under the first Temple, was the name of a city,--under the second, of a country. Its metropolis at that time was Sychem; "A place destined to revenges": and which the Jews, as it seems, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_56_samaria_sychem.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/28-9.htm">Isaiah 28:9 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/isaiah/28-9.htm">Isaiah 28:9 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/isaiah/28-9.htm">Isaiah 28:9 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/isaiah/28-9.htm">Isaiah 28:9 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/isaiah/28-9.htm">Isaiah 28:9 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/28-9.htm">Isaiah 28:9 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/isaiah/28-9.htm">Isaiah 28:9 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/28-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 28:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 28:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/28-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 28:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 28:10" /></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/isaiah/28-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>