Isa 28
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Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from
the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.
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Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where there
is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil,
he shall make rest for the land.
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The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the hands
and with the feet.
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And the fading flower of the Gr. hope of glory glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he
who sees
it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.
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In that day the Lord of hosts shall be the crown of hope, the woven crown of glory,
to the remnant of the people.
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They shall be left in the spirit of judgement for judgement, and for the strength
of them that hinder slaying.
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For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the
priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason
of wine, they have staggered Lit. from through drunkenness; they have erred: this is their vision.
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A curse shall devour this counsel, for this is their counsel for the sake of covetousness.
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To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message? even to those
that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.
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Expect you affliction on affliction, hope upon hope: yet a little, and yet a little,
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1 Co 14:21 by reason of the contemptuous words of the lips, by means of another language: for
they shall speak to this people, saying to them,
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This is the rest to him whom is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not
hear.
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Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope,
yet a little, and yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall
be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.
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Therefore hear you the word of the Lord, you afflicted men, and you princes of this
people that is in Jerusalem.
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Because you have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death;
if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood
our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:
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Therefore thus says the Lord, even the Lord, Ro 9:33; 1 Pe 2:6 Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a
choice, a corner-stone,
a precious stone, for its foundations; and he who believes on him shall by no means
be ashamed.
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And I will cause judgement to be for hope, and my compassion shall be for just measures,
and you that trust vainly in falsehood shall fall: for the storm shall by no means
pass by you,
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Or, shall it not also? etc. except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by
no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, you shall be beaten down
by it.
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Whenever it shall pass by, it shall take you; morning by morning it shall pass by
in the day, and in the night there shall be an evil hope. Learn to hear,
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you that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to
be gathered.
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The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly men, and shall be in the valley of
Gabaon; he shall perform his works with anger, even a work of bitterness, and his
anger shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.
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Therefore do not you rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard
of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all
the earth.
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Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.
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Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before
he tills the ground?
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Does he not, when he has levelled the surface thereof, then sow the small black poppy,
or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread-corn in your
borders?
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So you shall be chastened by the judgement of your God, and shall rejoice.
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For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon-wheel pass
over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be
eaten with bread;
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for Gr. I am I will not be wroth with you for ever, neither shall the voice of my Gr. bitterness trample you anger crush you.
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And these signs came forth from the Lord of hosts. Take counsel, exalt vain comfort.