Ephraim's "crown of pride," the drunkards' fading flower, opens the chapter: the Lord's mighty one (a tempest of hail), casts it down like a first-ripe fig eaten from the hand.

Read the rest, the context and the outline ▾Show less ▴

Ephraim's "crown of pride," the drunkards' fading flower, opens the chapter: the Lord's mighty one (a tempest of hail), casts it down like a first-ripe fig eaten from the hand. Judgment then turns to Jerusalem, where priest and prophet reel with strong drink and mock the message as "precept upon precept, line upon line"; Jehovah answers that he will speak to this people by men of strange lips, words Paul applies to tongues in 1 Corinthians 14:21. Against the rulers' "covenant with death," Jehovah lays in Zion a tried, precious corner-stone of sure foundation, "he that believeth shall not be in haste", the messianic stone the NT quotes in Romans 9:33 and 1 Peter 2:6. Justice becomes the line, hail sweeps away the refuge of lies, and a farming parable closes: God, wonderful in counsel, threshes each crop with the fitting instrument.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Isaiah — Isaiah overview

A. 1–8 The Crown of Pride Worn by Drunkards of Ephraim
B. 9–15 Precept Upon Precept, and a Covenant Made with Death
C. 16–22 A Tried Stone, a Precious Corner Stone, a Sure Foundation
D. 23–29 The Parable of the Plowman's God-Taught Wisdom

Top cross-references8 chapters ▾

Isaiah 286 verses
- Isaiah 28:1Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.
- Isaiah 28:3The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.
- Isaiah 28:7These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
- Isaiah 28:13Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
- Isaiah 28:15For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
- Isaiah 28:22So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
- Read Isaiah 28 →
Isaiah 83 verses
- Isaiah 8:7the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
- Isaiah 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
- Isaiah 8:14And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
- Read Isaiah 8 →
Isaiah 302 verses
- Isaiah 30:15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence—but you were not willing.”
- Isaiah 30:30And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
- Read Isaiah 30 →
Luke 212 verses
- Luke 21:25There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
- Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- Read Luke 21 →

4 more chapters this one speaks with

Jeremiah 62 verses
- Jeremiah 6:10To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
- Jeremiah 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
- Read Jeremiah 6 →
Jeremiah 52 verses
- Jeremiah 5:15Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
- Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
- Read Jeremiah 5 →
Isaiah 12 verses
- Isaiah 1:2Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
- Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
- Read Isaiah 1 →
Hosea 71 verse
- Hosea 7:5The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.
- Read Hosea 7 →

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.