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Isaiah Chapter 28

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In this chapter the prophet condemns the people of Judah for their idolatry and injustice, saying that they have abandoned the covenant and worshipped foreign gods. He declares that they will be punished with famine, pestilence, and exile. The passage also calls for repentance and restoration of God's righteous rule.

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(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!
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Isaiah 28:3Hosea 5:5Hosea 6:10Isaiah 28:7Isaiah 5:11Isaiah 5:22Proverbs 23:29Hosea 4:11Hosea 7:5Amos 2:8Amos 2:12Amos 6:6

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Isaiah 28:4Mark 2:22Isaiah 28:3I Samuel 12:3Ezekiel 24:6Daniel 5:23

(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.
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Isaiah 9:9Isaiah 9:10Isaiah 9:11Isaiah 9:12Isaiah 27:1Ezekiel 30:10Ezekiel 30:11Isaiah 28:15Isaiah 28:16Isaiah 28:17Isaiah 28:18Isaiah 28:19

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Psalms 24:8Genesis 10:9Job 36:5Jeremiah 46:12Ezekiel 32:27Daniel 8:24

(3) The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
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Isaiah 25:10Isaiah 26:6II Kings 9:33Lamentations 1:15Daniel 8:13Hebrews 10:29Revelation 11:2

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Isaiah 28:1Ezekiel 1:7Ezekiel 34:19Luke 7:38Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13

(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.
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Isaiah 28:1Psalms 73:19Psalms 73:20Hosea 6:4Hosea 9:10Hosea 9:11Hosea 9:16Hosea 13:1Hosea 13:15James 1:10James 1:11Micah 7:1

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Isaiah 28:1I Samuel 16:7Romans 14:3Romans 14:6Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11

(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,
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Isaiah 41:16Isaiah 45:25Isaiah 60:1Isaiah 60:2Isaiah 60:3Isaiah 60:19Isaiah 62:3Jeremiah 9:23Jeremiah 9:24Zechariah 6:13Zechariah 6:14Zechariah 6:15

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Zechariah 1:3

(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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Isaiah 11:2Isaiah 11:3Isaiah 11:4Isaiah 32:15Isaiah 32:16Genesis 41:38Genesis 41:39Numbers 11:16Numbers 11:17Numbers 27:16Numbers 27:17Numbers 27:18

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Psalms 99:4Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Exodus 28:30Deuteronomy 1:17I Kings 3:28

(7) But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
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Isaiah 19:14Isaiah 56:10Isaiah 56:11Isaiah 56:12Leviticus 10:9Leviticus 10:10Proverbs 20:1Proverbs 31:4Proverbs 31:5Ecclesiastes 10:17Ezekiel 44:21Hosea 4:11

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Numbers 6:3Haggai 2:4Mark 2:22Micah 2:11Matthew 9:17Exodus 6:1

(8) For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
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Proverbs 26:11Jeremiah 48:26Habakkuk 2:15Habakkuk 2:16

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Ezekiel 36:25Exodus 34:1Ezekiel 40:41

(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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Isaiah 30:10Isaiah 30:11Isaiah 30:12Psalms 50:17Proverbs 1:29Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 6:10John 3:19John 12:38John 12:47John 12:48Isaiah 53:1

(10) For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
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Isaiah 28:13Isaiah 5:4Deuteronomy 6:1Deuteronomy 6:2Deuteronomy 6:3Deuteronomy 6:4Deuteronomy 6:5Deuteronomy 6:6II Chronicles 36:15II Chronicles 36:16Nehemiah 9:29Nehemiah 9:30

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Isaiah 28:13II Samuel 8:2Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33Genesis 19:20Genesis 43:11

(11) For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
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Deuteronomy 28:49Jeremiah 5:15I Corinthians 14:21

(12) To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
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Isaiah 30:15II Chronicles 14:11II Chronicles 16:8II Chronicles 16:9Jeremiah 6:16Matthew 11:28Matthew 11:29Psalms 81:11Psalms 81:12Psalms 81:13Jeremiah 44:16Zechariah 7:11

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Exodus 23:12Exodus 34:21Leviticus 26:35I Chronicles 22:9II Chronicles 14:6Ezra 4:10

(13) But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
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Isaiah 28:10Jeremiah 23:36Jeremiah 23:37Jeremiah 23:38Hosea 6:5Hosea 8:12Isaiah 6:9Isaiah 6:10Isaiah 8:14Isaiah 8:15Psalms 69:22Matthew 13:14

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Isaiah 28:10II Samuel 8:2Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33Amos 7:17Genesis 19:20

(14) Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 28:22Isaiah 1:10Isaiah 5:9Isaiah 29:20Proverbs 1:22Proverbs 3:34Proverbs 29:8Hosea 7:5Acts 13:41

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Judges 8:23

(15) Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
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Isaiah 5:18Isaiah 5:19Ecclesiastes 8:8Job 5:23Job 15:25Job 15:26Job 15:27Jeremiah 44:17Ezekiel 8:12Hosea 2:18Zephaniah 1:12Isaiah 8:7

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Isaiah 28:18Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3

(16) Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
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Isaiah 8:14Genesis 49:10Genesis 49:24Psalms 118:22Zechariah 3:9Matthew 21:42Mark 12:10Luke 20:17Luke 20:18Acts 4:11Acts 4:12Romans 9:33

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Psalms 118:22Jeremiah 51:26I Peter 2:6Revelation 21:11Genesis 29:3Exodus 20:25

(17) Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
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Isaiah 10:22II Kings 21:13Psalms 94:15Amos 7:7Amos 7:8Amos 7:9Romans 2:2Romans 2:5Romans 9:28Revelation 19:2Isaiah 28:2Isaiah 28:15

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Isaiah 28:10Isaiah 28:13Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:3Ezekiel 47:4

(18) And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
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Isaiah 7:7Isaiah 8:10Jeremiah 44:28Ezekiel 17:15Zechariah 1:6Isaiah 2:15Isaiah 8:8Jeremiah 47:2Daniel 8:9Daniel 8:10Daniel 8:11Daniel 8:12

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Isaiah 28:15Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3

(19) From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
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Isaiah 10:5Isaiah 10:6II Kings 17:6II Kings 18:13Ezekiel 21:19Ezekiel 21:20Ezekiel 21:21Ezekiel 21:22Ezekiel 21:23Isaiah 33:7Isaiah 36:22Isaiah 37:3

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Numbers 9:21Ruth 3:13Judges 16:2Exodus 12:10Exodus 34:2Deuteronomy 28:67

(20) For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
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Isaiah 57:12Isaiah 57:13Isaiah 59:5Isaiah 59:6Isaiah 64:6Isaiah 66:3Isaiah 66:4Isaiah 66:5Isaiah 66:6Jeremiah 7:8Jeremiah 7:9Jeremiah 7:10

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Exodus 39:34

(21) 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.
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II Samuel 5:20I Chronicles 14:11Joshua 10:10Joshua 10:12II Samuel 5:25I Chronicles 14:16Isaiah 28:19Deuteronomy 29:21Deuteronomy 29:22Deuteronomy 29:23Deuteronomy 29:24Jeremiah 30:14

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Psalms 81:9I Peter 4:12Exodus 19:20Joshua 11:17II Chronicles 33:15Zechariah 14:4

(22) 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.
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Isaiah 28:15II Chronicles 30:10II Chronicles 36:16Jeremiah 15:17Jeremiah 20:7Matthew 27:39Matthew 27:44Acts 13:40Acts 13:41Acts 17:32II Chronicles 33:11Psalms 107:16

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II Kings 24:2Haggai 2:4Leviticus 10:6Isaiah 3:1Zechariah 7:12Isaiah 28:7

(23) Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
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Isaiah 1:2Deuteronomy 32:1Jeremiah 22:29Revelation 2:7Revelation 2:11Revelation 2:14Revelation 2:29

(24) Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
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Jeremiah 4:3Hosea 10:11Hosea 10:12

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II Samuel 14:14Deuteronomy 8:3II Samuel 14:13Job 8:3Psalms 80:13Proverbs 24:12

(25) 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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Exodus 9:31Exodus 9:32Ezekiel 4:9

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Isaiah 28:27Ezekiel 4:9

(26) For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
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Exodus 28:3Exodus 31:3Exodus 31:4Exodus 31:5Exodus 31:6Exodus 36:2Job 35:11Job 39:17Psalms 144:1Daniel 1:17James 1:17

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Deuteronomy 8:3II Samuel 14:13II Samuel 14:14Job 8:3Psalms 80:13Proverbs 24:12

(27) For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
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Isaiah 41:15II Kings 13:7Amos 1:3Isaiah 27:7Isaiah 27:8Jeremiah 10:24Jeremiah 46:28

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Isaiah 28:25Isaiah 28:28

(28) Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
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Isaiah 21:10Amos 9:9Matthew 3:12Matthew 13:37Matthew 13:38Matthew 13:39Matthew 13:40Matthew 13:41Matthew 13:42Matthew 13:43Luke 22:31Luke 22:32

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Exodus 22:6Jeremiah 51:22Jeremiah 51:23Isaiah 28:27

(29) This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
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Isaiah 28:21Isaiah 28:22Isaiah 9:6Job 5:9Job 37:23Psalms 40:5Psalms 92:5Jeremiah 32:19Daniel 4:2Daniel 4:3Romans 11:33

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Proverbs 1:27Malachi 4:1Zechariah 1:3II Samuel 17:14

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