Isaiah 28 (NET)

Isaiah 28:1¹The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards is doomed, the withering flower, its beautiful splendor, situated at the head of a rich valley, the crown of those overcome with wine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 7:5Isa 28:72 Kgs 14:25-27Isa 28:3-42 Chr 28:62 Chr 30:6-72 Kgs 15:292 Kgs 18:10-12Amos 2:12Amos 2:8

Isaiah 28:2²Look, the Lord sends a strong, powerful one. With the force of a hailstorm or a destructive windstorm, with the might of a driving, torrential rainstorm, he will knock that crown to the ground with his hand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 13:11Isa 30:30Nah 1:8Isa 27:1Isa 29:6Ezek 30:10-11Isa 25:4Isa 28:15-19Isa 40:10Isa 8:7-8

Isaiah 28:3³The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:29Isa 26:62 Kgs 9:33Dan 8:13Isa 28:1Rev 11:2Isa 25:10Lam 1:15

Isaiah 28:4⁴The withering flower, its beautiful splendor, situated at the head of a rich valley, will be like an early fig before harvest— as soon as someone notices it, he grabs it and swallows it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Nah 3:12Mic 7:1Hos 6:4Isa 28:1Hos 13:1Hos 13:15Hos 9:10-11Hos 9:16Jas 1:10-11Ps 73:19-20

Isaiah 28:5⁵At that time the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will become a beautiful crown and a splendid diadem for the remnant of his people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:4Isa 60:19Isa 62:3Rom 11:5-6Isa 41:16Isa 45:25Jer 9:23-24Job 29:14Ps 90:16-171 Cor 1:30-31

Isaiah 28:6⁶He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions, and strength to those who defend the city from attackers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 18:32-34John 5:30Isa 11:2-4Josh 1:9Num 11:16-17Isa 32:15-16John 3:341 Cor 12:81 Kgs 3:282 Chr 32:8

Isaiah 28:7⁷Even these men stagger because of wine; they stumble around because of beer— priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 56:10-12Luke 21:34Eccl 10:17Isa 19:14Matt 24:29Prov 20:1Isa 3:12Jer 14:14Jer 23:13Jer 23:16

Isaiah 28:8⁸Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit, with filth, leaving no clean place.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 48:26Prov 26:11Hab 2:15-16

Isaiah 28:9⁹Who is the Lord trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? To those just weaned from milk! To those just taken from their mother’s breast!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 131:2Jer 6:10John 12:38Matt 11:25Matt 21:15-161 Pet 2:2Isa 53:1Isa 54:13Jer 5:31John 3:19

Isaiah 28:10¹⁰Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 28:132 Tim 3:7Jer 11:7Jer 25:3-7Heb 5:12Neh 9:29-302 Chr 36:15-16Deut 6:1-6Isa 5:4Matt 21:34-41

Isaiah 28:11¹¹For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 14:21Deut 28:49Jer 5:15Isa 33:19

Isaiah 28:12¹²In the past he said to them, “This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted. This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 11:28-29Isa 30:15Jer 6:16Heb 12:25Isa 11:10Jer 44:16Zech 7:142 Chr 14:11Ps 81:11-13Zech 7:11

Isaiah 28:13¹³So the Lord ’s message to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:14Isa 6:9-102 Pet 3:16Isa 28:10Isa 8:14-15Jer 23:36-38Matt 21:44Ps 69:221 Pet 2:7-82 Cor 2:16

Isaiah 28:14¹⁴Therefore, listen to the Lord ’s message, you who mock, you rulers of these people who reside in Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 28:22Isa 1:10Isa 29:20Acts 13:41Hos 7:5Isa 5:9Prov 1:22Prov 29:8Prov 3:34

Isaiah 28:15¹⁵For you say, “We have made a treaty with death, with Sheol we have made an agreement. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by it will not reach us. For we have made a lie our refuge, we have hidden ourselves in a deceitful word.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 8:7-8Amos 2:4Dan 11:22Eccl 8:8Ezek 13:22Hos 2:18Isa 28:18Jer 5:312 Thess 2:9-11Ezek 13:16

Isaiah 28:16¹⁶Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord, says: “Look, I am laying a stone in Zion, an approved stone, set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. The one who maintains his faith will not panic.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:22Acts 4:11-121 Pet 2:6-8Luke 20:17-18Rom 9:33Mark 12:10Matt 21:42Isa 8:14-15Eph 2:201 Cor 3:11

Isaiah 28:17¹⁷I will make justice the measuring line, fairness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 21:13Amos 7:7-9Rev 16:21Isa 28:2Jer 7:14Rev 11:19Rom 2:2Rom 2:52 Pet 3:6-7Dan 11:22

Isaiah 28:18¹⁸Your treaty with death will be dissolved; your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, you will be overrun by it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 7:7Isa 8:10Isa 28:15Dan 11:40Isa 28:3Mal 4:1-3Dan 8:9-13Dan 9:26-27Ezek 17:15Isa 2:15

Isaiah 28:19¹⁹Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you; indeed, every morning it will sweep by, it will come through during the day and the night.” When this announcement is understood, it will cause nothing but terror.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 3:162 Kgs 24:2Dan 7:28Dan 8:27Isa 10:5-6Isa 33:7Isa 36:22Isa 37:3Isa 50:4Jer 19:3

Isaiah 28:20²⁰For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:18-31Isa 64:6Rom 9:30-32Isa 57:12-13Isa 59:5-6Isa 66:3-6Jer 7:8-10

Isaiah 28:21²¹For the Lord will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim; he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, to accomplish his work, his peculiar work, to perform his task, his strange task.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 14:112 Sam 5:20Josh 10:12Josh 10:101 Chr 14:162 Sam 5:25Lam 2:15Deut 29:21-24Isa 28:19Isa 29:14

Isaiah 28:22²²So now, do not mock, or your chains will become heavier! For I have heard a message about decreed destruction, from the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies against the entire land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:22-23Isa 24:1-232 Chr 30:102 Chr 36:16Acts 13:40-41Acts 17:32Dan 9:26-27Isa 28:14-15Isa 32:12-14Jer 15:17

Isaiah 28:23²³Pay attention and listen to my message. Be attentive and listen to what I have to say!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:2Jer 22:29Deut 32:1Rev 2:11Rev 2:14Rev 2:29Rev 2:7

Isaiah 28:24²⁴Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 10:11-12Jer 4:3

Isaiah 28:25²⁵Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 4:9Matt 23:23Exod 9:31-32

Isaiah 28:26²⁶His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 31:3-6Exod 36:2Dan 1:17Exod 28:3Jas 1:17Job 35:11Job 39:17Ps 144:1

Isaiah 28:27²⁷Certainly caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick, and cumin seed with a flail.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 41:152 Kgs 13:7Amos 1:3Isa 27:7-8Jer 10:24Jer 46:28

Isaiah 28:28²⁸Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 3:91 Cor 9:9-10Amos 9:9Isa 21:10John 12:24Matt 13:37-43Matt 3:12Luke 22:31-32

Isaiah 28:29²⁹This also comes from the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 11:33Jer 32:19Job 5:9Isa 9:6Ps 40:5Ps 92:5Dan 4:2-3Job 37:23Isa 28:21-22