Isaiah 28 Woe! Proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim! And decaying blossom of its stately beauty, which is at the head of the fertile ravine, drunkards for whom there is no wine!"

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Woe! Proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim! And decaying blossom of its stately beauty, which is at the head of the fertile ravine, drunkards for whom there is no wine!" ² Behold! The anger of Yahweh is steadfast and resolute as a hail storm, a stinging horror, as a storm of waters, abundant, overflowing. And He drags it to the earth by His hand." ³ With their feet will they tramp the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, ⁴ and its stately beauty becomes a decaying blossom, which is at the head of the fertile ravine, as its firstfruit, ere the summer, when the seer is seeing it, with it still in his palm, he is swallowing it up." ⁵ In that day Yahweh of hosts shall become a stately crown, and a beauteous chaplet to the remnant of His people, ⁶ and for a spirit of judgment for him sitting in judgment, and for mastery to those reversing the battle directed toward the gate." ⁷ And, moreover, these by wine, do err, and by an intoxicant they stray. Priest and prophet err by an intoxicant. They are swallowed up because of the wine. They stray because of the intoxicant. They err in sight, quaver in mediation, ⁸ for all tables are full of vomit. There fails to be a place without filth. ⁹ Whom will He direct in knowledge? And to whom will He explain a report? Those weaned from milk. Those pulled away from breasts. ¹⁰ For instruction is added to instruction, instruction to instruction, expectation to expectation, expectation to expectation, a bit there, a bit there." ¹¹ For with deridings of lip, and in another tongue He will speak to this people, ¹² when He says to them:"This is the resting place. Give rest to the faint. And this is the respite.Yet they are not willing to hearken, ¹³ when the word of Yahweh Elohim comes to them. Instruction is added to instruction, instruction to instruction, expectation to expectation, expectation to expectation, a bit there, a bit there, that they may go and stumble back, and be broken, and be trapped, and be seized." ¹⁴ Wherefore, hear the word of Yahweh, mocking mortals, proverb quoters of this people who are in Jerusalem." ¹⁵ For you say, "We have contracted a covenant with death, and with the unseen we made a public treaty. The scourge overflowing that shall pass will not come on us, for we constitute a lie our refuge, and in falsehood are we concealed." ¹⁶ Wherefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh, "Behold Me laying in Zion a foundation stone, a choice stone, a corner of a precious well-founded foundation. The believer on it shall not be put to shame." ¹⁷ And I constitute judgment for the tape, and righteousness for the plummet, and the hail will shovel away the refuge of the lie, and the concealment the waters will overflow." ¹⁸ And annulled is your covenant with death. And your public treaty with the unseen shall not be confirmed. The scourge overflowing, that shall pass, and you come to be for it, something to be trampled on." ¹⁹ As often as it passes, it will take you, for morning by morning will it pass, by day and by night, and it comes to be an evil agony to explain the report." ²⁰ For the berth is shorter than one can overstretch one's self, and the blanket is too narrow as one collects one's self." ²¹ For, as at mount Perazim, Yahweh will rise, as at the vale in Gibeon will He disturb, to do His deed, His alien deed, and to serve His service, His strange service." ²² And now, you must not be mocking, lest your bonds should hold fast, for a conclusive and decisive matter I hear from my Lord, Yahweh of hosts, which He will do over the entire land." ²³ Give ear, and hear My voice! Attend, and hear My saying!" ²⁴ The entire day will the plowman plow? To sow, will he open and harrow his ground? ²⁵ Should he not equalize its surface, and scatter sesame, and cumin be sprinkling, and place the chief crop of wheat and barley, with millet and spelt at its boundary? ²⁶ And He disciplines him by judgment. His Elohim is directing him. ²⁷ For not with spikes is the sesame threshed, nor is the wheel of a car on the cumin rolled around, for with a rod the sesame is beaten out, and the cumin with a club." ²⁸ Will bread grain be pulverized? For the thresher is not permanently threshing it, nor clamors the roller of his car, and with his horsemen he is not pulverizing it." ²⁹ Moreover, this fares forth from Yahweh of hosts, marvelous counsel He gives. And He magnifies reality."