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# Chapter 28
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1. Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
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Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower
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Which is at the head of the verdant valleys,
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To those who are overcome with wine!
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2. Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one,
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Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm,
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Like a flood of mighty waters overflowing,
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Who will bring them down to the earth with His hand.
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3. The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim,
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Will be trampled underfoot;
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4. And the glorious beauty is a fading flower
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Which is at the head of the verdant valley,
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Like the first fruit before the summer,
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Which an observer sees;
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He eats it up while it is still in his hand.
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5. In that day the Lord of hosts will be
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For a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty
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To the remnant of His people,
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6. For a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,
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And for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
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7. But they also have erred through wine,
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And through intoxicating drink are out of the way;
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The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink,
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They are swallowed up by wine,
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They are out of the way through intoxicating drink;
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They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
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8. For all tables are full of vomit and filth;
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No place is clean.
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9. "Whom will he teach knowledge?
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And whom will he make to understand the message?
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Those just weaned from milk?
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Those just drawn from the breasts?
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10. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
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Line upon line, line upon line,
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Here a little, there a little."
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11. For with stammering lips and another tongue
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He will speak to this people,
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12. To whom He said, "This is the rest with which
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You may cause the weary to rest,"
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And, "This is the refreshing";
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Yet they would not hear.
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13. But the word of the Lord was to them,
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"Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
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Line upon line, line upon line,
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Here a little, there a little,"
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That they might go and fall backward, and be broken
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And snared and caught.
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14. Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men,
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Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
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15. Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death,
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And with Sheol we are in agreement.
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When the overflowing scourge passes through,
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It will not come to us,
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For we have made lies our refuge,
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And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves."A Cornerstone in Zion
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16. Therefore thus says the Lord God:
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"Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation,
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A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;
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Whoever believes will not act hastily.
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17. Also I will make justice the measuring line,
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And righteousness the plummet;
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The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
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And the waters will overflow the hiding place.
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18. Your covenant with death will be annulled,
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And your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
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When the overflowing scourge passes through,
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Then you will be trampled down by it.
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19. As often as it goes out it will take you;
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For morning by morning it will pass over,
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And by day and by night;
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It will be a terror just to understand the report."
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20. For the bed is too short to stretch out on,
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And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.
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21. For the Lord will rise up as at Mount Perazim,
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He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon--
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That He may do His work, His awesome work,
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And bring to pass His act, His unusual act.
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22. Now therefore, do not be mockers,
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Lest your bonds be made strong;
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For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts,
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A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.Listen to the Teaching of God
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23. Give ear and hear my voice,
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Listen and hear my speech.
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24. Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow?
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Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
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25. When he has leveled its surface,
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Does he not sow the black cummin
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And scatter the cummin,
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Plant the wheat in rows,
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The barley in the appointed place,
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And the spelt in its place?
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26. For He instructs him in right judgment,
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His God teaches him.
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27. For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
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Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin;
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But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick,
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And the cummin with a rod.
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28. Bread flour must be ground;
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Therefore he does not thresh it forever,
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Break it with his cartwheel,
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Or crush it with his horsemen.
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29. This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
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Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.
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