Isaiah 28:11-29
Legacy Standard Bible
11 Indeed, He will speak to this people
Through (A)stammering lips and a foreign tongue,
12 He who said to them, “Here is (B)rest, give rest to the weary,”
And, “Here is repose,” but they would not listen.
13 So the word of Yahweh to them will be,
“[a]Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there,”
That they may go and (C)stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.
A Cornerstone in Zion
14 Therefore, (D)hear the word of Yahweh, O (E)scoffers,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
15 Because you have said, “We have cut a (F)covenant with death,
And with Sheol we have made a [b]pact.
(G)The overflowing [c]scourge will not reach us when it passes by,
For we have made (H)falsehood our refuge and we have (I)hidden ourselves with lying.”
16 Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh,
“(J)Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested (K)stone,
A costly cornerstone for the foundation, [d]firmly placed.
He who believes in it will not be [e]disturbed.
17 I will make (L)justice the measuring line
And righteousness the level;
Then (M)hail will sweep away the refuge of falsehood,
And the waters will overflow the secret place.
18 Your (N)covenant with death will be [f](O)canceled,
And your pact with Sheol will not stand;
When the (P)overflowing scourge passes through,
Then you will become its (Q)trampling place.
19 As (R)often as it passes through, it will take you;
For (S)morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,
And it will be [g]sheer (T)terror to understand the report.”
20 The bed is too short on which to stretch out,
And the (U)blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.
21 For Yahweh will rise up as at Mount (V)Perazim;
He will be stirred up as in the valley of (W)Gibeon,
To work His (X)work, His [h](Y)unusual work,
And to labor in His labor, His [i]exceptional labor.
22 So now do not carry on as (Z)scoffers,
Lest your fetters be made stronger;
For I have heard from Lord Yahweh of hosts
Of complete (AA)destruction, one that is decreed, on all the earth.
23 Give ear and hear my voice,
Pay attention and hear my words.
24 Does the [j]farmer plow [k]continually to plant seed?
Does he continually [l]turn and harrow his ground?
25 Does he not level its surface
And sow dill and scatter (AB)cumin
And [m]plant (AC)wheat in rows,
Barley in its place and rye within its [n]area?
26 For his God disciplines and teaches him proper judgment.
27 For dill is not threshed with a (AD)threshing sledge,
Nor is the wheel of a cart [o]driven over cumin;
But dill is beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod.
28 Grain for bread is crushed,
But he does not continue to thresh it forever.
Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually [p]disturb it,
He does not crush it longer.
29 This also comes from Yahweh of hosts,
Who has made His counsel (AE)wonderful and His wisdom (AF)great.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 28:13 See v 10 note 1, Yahweh responds to their scoffing by imitating their mockery, to represent the unintelligible language of a conqueror
- Isaiah 28:15 As in some ancient versions; Heb seer
- Isaiah 28:15 Or flood
- Isaiah 28:16 Lit well-laid
- Isaiah 28:16 Lit in a hurry
- Isaiah 28:18 Lit covered over
- Isaiah 28:19 Lit only
- Isaiah 28:21 Lit task is strange
- Isaiah 28:21 Lit work is foreign
- Isaiah 28:24 Lit plowman
- Isaiah 28:24 Lit all day
- Isaiah 28:24 Lit open
- Isaiah 28:25 Lit put
- Isaiah 28:25 Lit region
- Isaiah 28:27 Lit rolled
- Isaiah 28:28 Lit confuse
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