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Isaiah 28

Isa. 28:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Woe
howy (Hebrew #1945)
oh!
KJV usage: ah, alas, ho, O, woe.
Pronounce: hoh'ee
Origin: a prolonged form of 1930 (akin to 188)
to the crown
`atarah (Hebrew #5850)
a crown
KJV usage: crown.
Pronounce: at-aw-raw'
Origin: from 5849
of pride
ge'uwth (Hebrew #1348)
the same as 1346
KJV usage: excellent things, lifting up, majesty, pride, proudly, raging.
Pronounce: gay-ooth'
Origin: from 1342
, to the drunkards
shikkowr (Hebrew #7910)
from 7937; intoxicated, as a state or a habit
KJV usage: drunk(-ard, -en, -en man).
Pronounce: shik-kore'
Origin: or shikkor {shik-kore'}
of Ephraim
'Ephrayim (Hebrew #669)
double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Ephraim, Ephraimites.
Pronounce: ef-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of masculine form of 672
, whose glorious
tsbiy (Hebrew #6643)
splendor (as conspicuous); also a gazelle (as beautiful)
KJV usage: beautiful(-ty), glorious (-ry), goodly, pleasant, roe(-buck).
Pronounce: tseb-ee'
Origin: from 6638 in the sense of prominence
beauty
tiph'arah (Hebrew #8597)
from 6286; ornament (abstractly or concretely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beauty(- iful), bravery, comely, fair, glory(-ious), hono; ornament (abstractly or concretely, literally or figuratively):--beauty(-iful), bravery, comely, fair, glory(-ious), honour, majesty.
Pronounce: tif-aw-raw'
Origin: or tiphereth {tif-eh'-reth}
is a fading
nabel (Hebrew #5034)
to wilt; generally, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively, to despise, disgrace
KJV usage: disgrace, dishounour, lightly esteem, fade (away, - ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, X surely, make vile, wither.
Pronounce: naw-bale'
Origin: a primitive root
flower
tsiyts (Hebrew #6731)
from 6692; properly, glistening, i.e. a burnished plate; also a flower (as bright-colored); a wing (as gleaming in the air)
KJV usage: blossom, flower, plate, wing.
Pronounce: tseets
Origin: or tsits {tseets}
, which are on the head
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
of the fat
shemen (Hebrew #8081)
grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness
KJV usage: anointing, X fat (things), X fruitful, oil((-ed)), ointment, olive, + pine.
Pronounce: sheh'-men
Origin: from 8080
valleys
gay' (Hebrew #1516)
probably (by transmutation) from the same root as 1466 (abbreviated); a gorge (from its lofty sides; hence, narrow, but not a gully or winter-torrent)
KJV usage: valley.
Pronounce: gah'-ee
Origin: or (shortened) gay {gah'-ee}
of them that are ρovercome
halam (Hebrew #1986)
to strike down; by implication, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband
KJV usage: beat (down), break (down), overcome, smite (with the hammer).
Pronounce: haw-lam'
Origin: a primitive root
with wine
yayin (Hebrew #3196)
wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication
KJV usage: banqueting, wine, wine(-bibber).
Pronounce: yah'-yin
Origin: from an unused root meaning to effervesce
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broken.

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Crown,
Ephraim,
Fat,
Head,
Vale; Valley,
Wine,
Woe

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-4:  The prophet threatens Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness.
5-6:  The residue shall be advanced in the kingdom of Christ.
7-8:  He rebukes their error;
9-13:  their untowardness to learn;
14-15:  and their security.
16:  Christ the sure foundation is promised.
17-22:  Their security shall be tried.
23-29:  They are incited to the consideration of God's discreet providence.
A.M. 3279.
B.C. 725.
the crown.This chapter begins a new subject, chiefly relating to the devastations of Israel and Judah by the Assyrian kings.
The ancient Samaria being beautifully situated on the top of a round hill, and surrounded immediately with a rich valley, and then a circle of other hills around it, suggested the idea of a chaplet, or wreath of flowers.
Isa. 28:3• 3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet; (Isa. 28:3)
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Hos. 5:5• 5And Israel's pride doth testify to his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall by their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them. (Hos. 5:5)
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Hos. 6:10• 10In the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: the whoredom of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled. (Hos. 6:10)
drunkards.
Isa. 28:7• 7But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in vision, they have stumbled in judgment. (Isa. 28:7)
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Isa. 5:11,22• 11Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, till wine inflameth them!
 22Woe unto them that are mighty for drinking wine, and men valiant to mix strong drink; (Isa. 5:11,22)
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Prov. 23:29• 29Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes? (Prov. 23:29)
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Hos. 4:11• 11Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart. (Hos. 4:11)
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Hos. 7:5• 5In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners. (Hos. 7:5)
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Amos 2:8,12• 8And they lay themselves down by every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and they drink in the house of their God the wine of the condemned.
 12And ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. (Amos 2:8,12)
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Amos 6:6• 6that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments; but are not grieved for the breach of Joseph. (Amos 6:6)
whose.
Isa. 28:4• 4and the fading flower of his glorious adornment which is on the head of the fat valley shall be like an early fig before the summer: as soon as he that seeth it perceiveth it, scarcely is it in his hand, he swalloweth it down. (Isa. 28:4)
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Isa. 7:8‑9• 8for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no more a people;
 9and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye believe not, surely ye shall not be established. (Isa. 7:8‑9)
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Isa. 8:4• 4For before the lad knoweth to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. (Isa. 8:4)
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2 Kings 14:25‑27• 25He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the sea of the plain, according to the word of Jehovah the God of Israel, which he had spoken through his servant Jonah the prophet, the son of Amittai, who was of Gath-Hepher.
 26For Jehovah saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and that there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
 27And Jehovah had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens; and he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. (2 Kings 14:25‑27)
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2 Kings 15:29• 29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. (2 Kings 15:29)
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2 Kings 18:10‑12• 10And at the end of three years they took it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
 11And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and by the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes;
 12because they hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed his covenant, all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded; and they would not hear nor do it. (2 Kings 18:10‑12)
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2 Chron. 28:6• 6And Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken Jehovah the God of their fathers. (2 Chron. 28:6)
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2 Chron. 30:6‑7• 6And the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, return to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
 7And be not like your fathers and like your brethren, who transgressed against Jehovah the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see. (2 Chron. 30:6‑7)
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Amos 6:1• 1Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the renowned of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come. (Amos 6:1)
overcome.
Heb. broken.
• Having recorded this prediction of the gathering from lands of affliction to Jerusalem of a remnant who shall worship the Lord there, the prophet again reverted to the denunciation of the existing state of the people. (“Isaiah 28” by F.B. Hole)
• {v.1-13} And first Ephraim, that is, the ten tribes, came before him (verses 1-13). They were debased as drunkards and yet wore pride as a crown. (“Isaiah 28” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious adornment, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine.