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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 Amplified Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; 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<t><p class="indent1">Like a tempest of hail, a disastrous storm, <t><p class="indent1">Like a tempest of mighty overflowing waters, <t><p class="indent1">He has cast it down to the earth with <i>His</i> hand. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The splendid crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trampled by [the foreigners’] feet. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, <t><p class="indent1">Which is at the head of the rich valley, <t><p class="indent1">Will be like the early fig before the summer, <t><p class="indent1">Which one sees, <t><p class="indent1">And as soon as it is in his hand <t><p class="indent1">He [greedily] swallows it [and so will the Assyrians rapidly devour Samaria, Israel’s capital]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>In that day the LORD of hosts will become a magnificent crown <t><p class="indent1">And a glorious diadem to the [converted] remnant of His people, <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment [administering the law], <t><p class="indent1">A strength to those who drive back the battle at the gate. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But even these reel with wine and stagger from strong drink: <p class="indent1stline">The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink; <t><p class="indent1">They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; <t><p class="indent1">They reel while seeing visions, <t><p class="indent1">They stagger <i>when pronouncing</i> judgment. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no place [that is clean.] <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><i>They say</i> “To whom would He teach knowledge? <t><p class="indent1">And to whom would He explain the message? <t><p class="indent1">Those <i>just</i> weaned from milk? <t><p class="indent1">Those <i>just</i> taken from the breast? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“For <i>He says</i>, <t><p class="indent1">‘Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, <t><p class="indent1">Rule upon rule, rule upon rule, <t><p class="indent1">Here a little, there a little.’” <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Indeed, the LORD will teach this people [in a more humiliating way] <t><p class="indent1">By [men with] stammering lips and a foreign tongue, <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He who said to them, “This is the place of quiet, give rest to the weary,” <t><p class="indent1">And, “This is the resting place,” yet they would not listen. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore the word of the LORD to them will be [merely monotonous repetitions]: <p class="indent1stline">“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, <t><p class="indent1">Rule upon rule, rule upon rule, <t><p class="indent1">Here a little, there a little.” <t><p class="indent1">That they may go and stumble backward, and be broken, ensnared, and taken captive. <p class="hdg">Judah Is Warned</p><poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, you arrogant men <t><p class="indent1">Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem! <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, <t><p class="indent1">And with Sheol (the place of the dead) we have made an agreement, <t><p class="indent1">When the overwhelming scourge passes by, it will not reach us, <t><p class="indent1">For we have made lies our refuge and we have concealed ourselves in deception.” <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore the Lord GOD says this, <p class="indent1stline">“Listen carefully, I am laying in Zion a Stone, a tested Stone, <t><p class="indent1">A precious Cornerstone for the [secure] foundation, firmly placed. <t><p class="indent1">He who believes [who trusts in, relies on, and adheres to that Stone] will not <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>be disturbed <i>or</i> give way [in sudden panic]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“I will make justice the measuring line <t><p class="indent1">And righteousness the mason’s level; <t><p class="indent1">Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies <t><p class="indent1">And waters will flood over the secret [hiding] place. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Your covenant with death will be annulled, <t><p class="indent1">And your agreement with Sheol (the place of the dead) will not stand; <t><p class="indent1">When the overwhelming scourge passes through, <t><p class="indent1">Then you will become its trampling ground. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“As often as it passes through, it will seize you; <t><p class="indent1">For morning after morning it will pass through, by day and by night, <t><p class="indent1">And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means.” <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the bed is too short to stretch out on, <t><p class="indent1">And the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself [and likewise all their preparations are inadequate]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, <t><p class="indent1">He will be stirred up as in the Valley of Gibeon, <t><p class="indent1">To do His work, His unusual <i>and</i> incredible work, <t><p class="indent1">And to accomplish His work, His extraordinary work. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Now do not carry on as scoffers, <t><p class="indent1">Or the bands which bind you will be made stronger; <t><p class="indent1">For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts [a decree] <t><p class="indent1">Of decisive destruction on all the earth. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Listen and hear my voice; <t><p class="indent1">Listen carefully and hear my words. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Does the farmer plow all day to plant seed? <t><p class="indent1">Does he <i>continually</i> dig furrows and harrow his ground [after it is prepared]? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When he has leveled its surface, <t><p class="indent1">Does he not sow [the seed of] dill and scatter cumin, <t><p class="indent1">And plant wheat in rows, <t><p class="indent1">And barley in its [intended] place and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>rye within its border? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For his God instructs [him correctly] and teaches him properly. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For dill is not threshed with a sharp threshing sledge, <t><p class="indent1">Nor is a cartwheel rolled over cumin; <t><p class="indent1">But dill is beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Bread <i>grain</i> is crushed fine, <t><p class="indent1">Indeed, the farmer does not continue to thresh it forever. <t><p class="indent1">Because the wheel of his cart and his horses <i>eventually</i> damage it, <t><p class="indent1">He does not thresh it longer. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>This also comes from the LORD of hosts, <t><p class="indent1">Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> I.e. the ten northern tribes of Israel.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> <i>The Septuagint</i> (Greek translation of the Old Testament) reads “be put to shame,” a phrase which occurs frequently in pleas to God.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> A subspecies of common wheat.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <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 align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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