These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Isaiah 28
Tanakh 29 verses
- 1 Woe to the of pride of the drunkards of , And to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, Which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are smitten down with wine!
- 2 Behold, hath a mighty and strong one, As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, As a storm of mighty waters overflowing, That casteth down to the earth with violence.
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The of pride of the drunkards of Shall be trodden under foot;
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And the fading flower of his glorious beauty, Which is on the head of the fat valley, Shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer, Which when one looketh upon it, While it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
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- 5 In that day shall of hosts be For a of , and for a diadem of beauty, Unto the residue of His people;
- 6 And for a of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, And for strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.
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But these also reel through wine, And stagger through strong drink; The and the reel through strong drink, They are confused because of wine, They stagger because of strong drink; They reel in , they totter in judgment.
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Isaiah 19:14 Luke 21:34 Isaiah 56:10-12 Matthew 24:29 Isaiah 3:12 Psalm 107:27 Proverbs 20:1 Ecclesiastes 10:17 Isaiah 5:11 Lamentations 2:4 Isaiah 22:13 Ezekiel 13:7 Ephesians 5:28 Jeremiah 23:16 Ezekiel 44:21 Isaiah 5:22 Jeremiah 14:14 Proverbs 31:4-5 Micah 2:11 Leviticus 10:9-10 Isaiah 24:2 Hosea 4:11-12 Isaiah 9:15-16 Jeremiah 23:13 Isaiah 29:11 -
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For all tables are full of filthy vomit, and no place is .
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- 9 Whom shall one teach knowledge? And whom shall one make to understand the message? Them that are weaned from the milk, Them that are drawn from the breasts?
- 10 For it is precept by precept, precept by precept, Line by line, line by line; Here a little, there a little.
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For with stammering lips and with a strange tongue Shall it be spoken to this people;
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- 12 To whom it was said: ‘This is the rest, Give ye rest to the weary; And this is the refreshing’; Yet they would not .
- 13 And so the of is unto them Precept by precept, precept by precept, Line by line, line by line; Here a little, there a little; That they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, And snared, and taken.
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Wherefore the of , ye scoffers, The ballad-mongers of this people which is in :
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Because ye have said: ‘We have made a with death, And with the nether-world are we at agreement; When the scouring scourge shall pass through, It shall not come unto us; For we have made lies our refuge, And in falsehood have we hid ourselves’;
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Isaiah 8:7-8 Ezekiel 13:22 Isaiah 28:18 Daniel 11:22 Isaiah 28:2 Amos 2:4 Hosea 2:18 Job 5:23 Jeremiah 28:15-17 Isaiah 9:15 Ecclesiastes 8:8 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 Isaiah 29:15 Ezekiel 13:16 Isaiah 30:28 Isaiah 5:18-19 Jeremiah 16:19 Jeremiah 44:17 Zephaniah 1:12 Jeremiah 5:31 Ezekiel 8:12 Jonah 2:8 Jeremiah 14:13 Job 15:25-27 Isaiah 30:10 - 16 Therefore thus saith : Behold, I lay in for a foundation a stone, A tried stone, a costly corner-stone of sure foundation; He that believeth shall not make haste.
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And I will make justice the line, And the plummet; And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
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2 Kings 21:13 Isaiah 28:2 Revelation 16:21 Amos 7:7-9 2 Peter 3:6-7 Jeremiah 7:20 Romans 2:2 Jeremiah 7:14 Matthew 7:27 Isaiah 30:28 Isaiah 10:22 Revelation 8:7 Daniel 11:22 Isaiah 32:2 Isaiah 5:16 Romans 9:28 Isaiah 25:4 Ezekiel 13:10-16 Jeremiah 7:4-8 Ezekiel 38:22 Revelation 19:2 Exodus 9:18-19 Isaiah 32:18-19 Jeremiah 30:23-24 Isaiah 28:15 Jeremiah 23:19 Joshua 10:11 Psalm 94:15 Romans 2:5 Job 22:16 Revelation 11:19 - 18 And your with death shall be disannulled And your agreement with the nether-world shall not stand; When the scouring scourge shall pass through, Then ye shall be trodden down by it,
- 19 As often as it passeth through, it shall take you; For morning by morning shall it pass through, By day and by night; And it shall be sheer terror to understand the message.
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For the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself; And the covering too narrow when he gathereth himself up.
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- 21 For will rise up as in mount Perazim, He will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; That He may do His work, strange is His work, And bring to pass His act, strange is His act.
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Now therefore be ye not scoffers, Lest your bands be made strong; For an extermination wholly determined have I heard from , the of hosts, Upon the whole land.
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Isaiah 10:22-23 2 Chronicles 33:11 2 Chronicles 30:10 Revelation 22:18-19 Jeremiah 20:7 Psalm 107:16 Jeremiah 25:11 Isaiah 32:12-14 Acts 13:40-41 Luke 21:24 Isaiah 28:14-15 Daniel 9:26-27 Acts 17:32 Lamentations 1:14 2 Chronicles 36:16 Matthew 27:39 Matthew 27:44 Jeremiah 39:7 Jeremiah 15:17 Isaiah 24:1-23 -
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Give ye ear, and my voice; attend, and my speech.
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Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, With the opening and harrowing of his ground?
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When he hath made plain the thereof, Doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin, And put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed place And the spelt in the border thereof?
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For He doth instruct him aright; His doth teach him.
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For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, Neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; But the black cummin is beaten out with a staff, And the cummin with a rod.
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Is bread corn crushed? Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; And though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, He doth not crush it.
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This also cometh forth from of hosts: Wonderful is His counsel, and great His wisdom.
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