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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Smith's Literal Translation</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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/28-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Captivity of Ephraim<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>O to the crown of pride, wo to the hirelings of Ephraim! a flower falling away is the glory of his beauty which is upon the head of the valley of fatness of those smitten with wine.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Behold, a strong and active one to Jehovah, as a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, as a storm of vast waters overflowing, let fall to the earth with the hand.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>With the feet shall the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, be trodden down.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the flower falling away was the glory of his beauty which is upon the head of the valley of fatness, as the first-fruits before fruit harvest which he looking at it shall see, in its continuing in his hand he will swallow it up.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>In that day shall Jehovah of armies be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And for a spirit of judgment to him sitting upon the judgment, and for strength of them turning back the battle of the storm.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And these also went astray by wine, and by strong drink they erred; the priest and the prophet went astray by strong drink, they were swallowed up from wine, they erred from strong drink, they went astray in seeing, they wavered in judgment.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For all tables were full of vomit, of filth without place.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Whom shall he teach knowledge? whom shall he cause to understand hearing? those weaned from milk and those taken away from the breasts.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For precept to precept, precept to precept; line to line, line to line; a little there, 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 stammerings of the lip and with another tongue 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>To whom he said to them, This the rest they caused to the weary to rest; and this the quiet: and they would not hear.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the word of Jehovah was to them, precept to precept, precept to precept; line to line, line to line; a little there, a little there, so that they shall go and they stumbled backward, and were broken and snared and taken.<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>For this, hear ye the word of Jehovah, ye men of scorn, ruling this people which is in Jerusalem.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Because ye said, We cut out a covenant with death, and with hades we did this; when this overflowing scourge passed through it shall not come to us, for we set falsehood our refuge, and in a lie we hid ourselves.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For this, thus said the Lord. Jehovah, Behold me placing for a foundation in Zion a stone, a stone of trial, a corner precious, a foundation being founded: and he believing shall not hasten.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I set judgment to the line and justice to the weight: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of falsehood, and the waters shall overflow the covering.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And your covenant with death was obliterated, and your league with hades shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through and ye were for a treading down to it.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>When passing through it shall take you: for by morning by morning it shall pass through in the day and in the night: and it was only an agitation to; understand the hearing.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the spreading was shortened above stretching out, and the covering narrow for hiding one's self.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For as mount Perazim shall Jehovah rise up, as the valley in Gibeon shall he be moved to do his work, his strange work, and to work his service, his unknown service.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And now ye shall not be mocker's lest your bonds shall be strong: for I heard a completion and decision from the Lord. Jehovah of armies upon all the 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>Give ear and hear my voice; tend and hear my saying.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Shall he ploughing, plough all the day to sow? shall he open and level his earth?<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Did he not make level its face and disperse the fennel flower, and he will scatter the cummin, and he set the wheat in order, and designated the barley, and the spilt in his bound?<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He will instruct him, according to 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 the fennel flower shall not be beaten with the threshing sledge, and the wheel of a wagon shall not be turned about upon the cummin; for the fennel flower shall be beaten out with the rod and the cummin with the rod.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Bread shall be beaten small; for threshing, he will not forever thresh it; and the wheel of his wagon he put in motion and his horsemen shall not beat it small.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Also this shall come forth from Jehovah of armies, he being wonderful of counsel and great of understanding.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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