Isaiah 28

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1Woe 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!46 cross-references: Hosea 7:5, Isaiah 28:7, 2 Kings 14:25–27, Isaiah 28:3–4, Hosea 5:5
2Behold, 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.27 cross-references: Isaiah 30:30, Nahum 1:8, Ezekiel 13:11, Isaiah 27:1, Isaiah 29:6
3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:14 cross-references: Isaiah 26:6, Hebrews 10:29, Revelation 11:2, 2 Kings 9:33, Daniel 8:13
4And 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.18 cross-references: Nahum 3:12, Micah 7:1, Isaiah 28:1, Hosea 6:4, Hosea 13:1
5In 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,25 cross-references: Isaiah 62:3, Isaiah 60:19, 1 Peter 5:4, Romans 11:5–6, Psalms 90:16–17
6And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.31 cross-references: Psalms 18:32–34, John 5:30, Isaiah 11:2–4, Numbers 11:16–17, Joshua 1:9
7But 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.59 cross-references: Luke 21:34, Isaiah 56:10–12, Matthew 24:29, Isaiah 19:14, Ecclesiastes 10:17
8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.3 cross-references: Jeremiah 48:26, Proverbs 26:11, Habakkuk 2:15–16
9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.32 cross-references: Psalms 131:2, Jeremiah 6:10, John 12:38, Matthew 21:15–16, Matthew 11:25
10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:17 cross-references: Isaiah 28:13, 2 Timothy 3:7, Jeremiah 11:7, Jeremiah 25:3–7, Hebrews 5:12
11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.10 cross-references: 1 Corinthians 14:21, Deuteronomy 28:49, Isaiah 33:19, Jeremiah 5:15
12To 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.20 cross-references: Matthew 11:28–29, Isaiah 30:15, Jeremiah 6:16, Jeremiah 44:16, Isaiah 11:10
13But 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.25 cross-references: Matthew 13:14, Isaiah 6:9–10, Matthew 21:44, Isaiah 28:10, Jeremiah 23:36–38
14Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.40 cross-references: Isaiah 29:20, Isaiah 1:10, Isaiah 28:22, Acts 13:41, Hosea 7:5
15Because 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:56 cross-references: Isaiah 8:7–8, Amos 2:4, Daniel 11:22, Hosea 2:18, Ezekiel 13:22
16Therefore 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.64 cross-references: Psalms 118:22, Acts 4:11–12, 1 Peter 2:6–8, Luke 20:17–18, Romans 9:33
17Judgment 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.58 cross-references: 2 Kings 21:13, Amos 7:7–9, Revelation 16:21, Jeremiah 7:14, Romans 2:2
18And 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.24 cross-references: Isaiah 7:7, Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 28:15, Isaiah 28:3, Daniel 11:40
19From 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.26 cross-references: Habakkuk 3:16, Isaiah 10:5–6, Jeremiah 19:3, Luke 21:25–26, Daniel 8:27
20For 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.10 cross-references: Romans 9:30–32, Isaiah 64:6, 1 Corinthians 1:18–31, Isaiah 66:3–6, Isaiah 57:12–13
21For 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.31 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 14:11, Joshua 10:12, 2 Samuel 5:20, Joshua 10:10, 2 Samuel 5:25
22Now 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.35 cross-references: Isaiah 10:22–23, Isaiah 24:1–23, Jeremiah 20:7, Lamentations 1:14, 2 Chronicles 30:10
23Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.11 cross-references: Jeremiah 22:29, Isaiah 1:2, Revelation 2:29, Revelation 2:11, Revelation 2:14
24Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?10 cross-references: Hosea 10:11–12, Jeremiah 4:3
25When 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?5 cross-references: Ezekiel 4:9, Matthew 23:23, Exodus 9:31–32
26For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.24 cross-references: Exodus 36:2, Exodus 31:3–6, Job 35:11, Daniel 1:17, Job 39:17
27For 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.10 cross-references: Isaiah 41:15, Jeremiah 10:24, Jeremiah 46:28, Amos 1:3, 2 Kings 13:7
28Bread 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.8 cross-references: Matthew 13:37–43, Amos 9:9, Matthew 3:12, 1 Corinthians 9:9–10, John 12:24
29This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.18 cross-references: Romans 11:33, Job 5:9, Isaiah 9:6, Jeremiah 32:19, Psalms 40:5

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Whoever believes will not be ashamed Isaiah 28:16 and Romans 9:33
Isaiah describes God laying a tested, precious cornerstone in Zion; whoever trusts it will not panic. Paul reads the stone as Christ and the promise as justification by faith, quoting it again in Romans 10:11.
Living stones on the cornerstone Isaiah 28:16 and 1 Peter 2:6
Peter quotes Isaiah's cornerstone promise to describe believers as living stones built into a spiritual house on Christ. The image turns the temple into a people.
Other tongues and other lips Isaiah 28:11 and 1 Corinthians 14:21
Isaiah warns that because Israel ignored plain speech, God would speak through foreign invaders' languages. Paul applies it to speaking in tongues as a sign for unbelievers.

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