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! |
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. |
3 |
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under
feet: |
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. |
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, |
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. |
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. |
8 |
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place
clean. |
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. |
10 | For precept must be upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: |
11 |
For with stammering lips
and another tongue will he speak to this people.
1 Cor 14:21
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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.
1 Cor 14:21
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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. |
14 | Wherefore hear the word of the LORD,
ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. |
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: |
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.
Rom 9:33
Isa 8:14
Rom 10:11
1 Pet 2:6
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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
23 | Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. |
24 | Doth the plowman plow all
day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? |
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? |
26 | For his God doth instruct
him to discretion, and doth teach him. |
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. |
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. |
29
| This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in
counsel, and excellent in working. |