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Isaiah 28:23 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. "
Isaiah 28:23
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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?
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
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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!"
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:"
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."
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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