Isaiah 28:22 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.”

Isaiah 28:22

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For the bed is shorter than that {a man} can stretch himself {on it}: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself {in it}.

For the LORD shall rise up as {in} mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as {in} the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

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Isaiah 28:1

"Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty {is} a fading flower, which {are} on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! {overcome: Heb. broken}"

Isaiah 28:2

"Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, {which} as a tempest of hail {and} a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand."

Isaiah 28:3

"The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: {under...: Heb. with feet}"

Isaiah 28:4

"And the glorious beauty, which {is} on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, {and} as the hasty fruit before the summer; which {when} he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. {eateth: Heb. swalloweth}"

Isaiah 28:5

"In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,"

Isaiah 28:6

"And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate."

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