Isaiah 28:8
in Isaiah 28For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
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ASV
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
KJV
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
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This verse in Isaiah 28
Commentary
7 notes on this verseFor all tables are full of vomit and filthiness,.... The one signifies what is spued out of a man's mouth, his stomach being overcharged, and the other his excrements; and both give a just, though nauseous, idea of a drunken man.
This site's exposition
Priests and prophets reel from strong drink
on Isaiah 28:7-8
The woe widens to Judah's leaders: "Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine". The men charged with judgment are "muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments". Verse 8 adds, "all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth".
This site's exposition
all their tables are covered with vomit
The tables are the feasting tables where the priests and prophets of verse 7 sat long over wine. Albert Barnes links the scene to the woe at Isaiah 5:11 on those who linger over wine into the evening. No clean place was left in the teachers' own houses.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 5 and following) On that day, the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory and a diadem of rejoicing to the remnant of his people, and a spirit of judgment to the one who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. But these also reel because of wine and stagger because of strong drink: priest and prophet reel because of strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they stagger because of strong drink; they reel while having visions, they totter when rendering judgment.
The Medieval Church1 voice
Third, he sets out the manner of their ignorance: for all the tables were full of vomit, for they gorged themselves in their temples until they vomited, as if they were devoted entirely to idols; and filth, namely, of all their shameful vices: as a …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Their tables are full of vomit, so that the victor, instead of being proud of his crown, ought rather to be ashamed of it. It bodes ill to any people when so sottish a sin as drunkenness has become national. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
For all tables ... - The tables at which they sit long in the use of wine (see the note at Isa 5:11). There was no place in their houses which was free from the disgusting and loathsome pollution produced by the use of wine.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֚י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| שֻׁלְחָנ֔וֹת | shulchanot | [the] tables | H7979 → | 71 times |
| מָלְא֖וּ | malu | they are full | H4390 → | 249 times |
| קִ֣יא | ki' | vomit | H6892 → | |
| צֹאָ֑ה | tzoah | filth | H6675 → | 5 times |
| בְּלִ֖י | beli | not | H1097 → | 58 times |
| מָקֽוֹם׃ ס | makom | room | H4725 → | 401 times |
כִּ֚יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
שֻׁלְחָנ֔וֹת[the] tables
shulchanotH7979 →71 times
מָלְא֖וּthey are full
maluH4390 →249 times
קִ֣יאvomit
ki'H6892 →
צֹאָ֑הfilth
tzoahH6675 →5 times
בְּלִ֖יnot
beliH1097 →58 times
מָקֽוֹם׃ סroom
makomH4725 →401 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Proverbs 26:11As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
it leads to
- 2 Peter 2:22
Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
- Matthew 12:45
Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So…
- Exodus 8:15
When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
- 2 Peter 2:22
Through
Jeremiah 48:26“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 48:42
Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.
- Isaiah 29:9
Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.
- Isaiah 19:14
The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
- Jeremiah 51:39
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares…
- Jeremiah 48:39
“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
- Jeremiah 48:42
Where this verse is studied
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About Isaiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.