Isaiah 28:1

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Hos 7:5 : 5 On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.
  • Isa 28:3-4 : 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot: 4 and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
  • Isa 28:7 : 7 And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
  • Hos 5:5 : 5 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.
  • Hos 6:10 : 10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
  • Amos 2:8 : 8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
  • Amos 2:12 : 12 But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
  • Amos 6:1 : 1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
  • Amos 6:6 : 6 that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
  • 2 Kgs 14:25-27 : 25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Jehovah, the God of Israel, which he spake by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher. 26 For Jehovah saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel. 27 And Jehovah said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
  • 2 Kgs 15:29 : 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
  • 2 Kgs 18:10-12 : 10 And at the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.
  • 2 Chr 28:6 : 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers.
  • 2 Chr 30:6-7 : 6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that are escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. 7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
  • Prov 23:29 : 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
  • Isa 5:11 : 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!
  • Isa 5:22 : 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
  • Isa 7:8-9 : 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people: 9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
  • Isa 8:4 : 4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.
  • Isa 9:9 : 9 And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in stoutness of heart,

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  • Isa 28:2-5
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    2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.

    3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot:

    4and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

    5In that day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people;

  • 5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Isa 5:21-22
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    21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

    22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;

  • 11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!

  • 7And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • Hab 2:15-16
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    15Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, [to thee] that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

    16Thou art filled with shame, and not glory: drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised; the cup of Jehovah's right hand shall come round unto thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory.

  • 21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine:

  • 5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.

  • 9Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

  • 2The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

  • 16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

  • 10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

  • 1Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

  • 1Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

  • 13Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

  • Joel 1:10-11
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    10The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

    11Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.

  • Prov 31:5-6
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    5Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice [due] to any that is afflicted.

    6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, And wine unto the bitter in soul:

  • 7And [they of] Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine; yea, their children shall see it, and rejoice; their heart shall be glad in Jehovah.

  • 5Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.

  • 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

  • 2For Jehovah restoreth the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.

  • 1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

  • 1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

  • 4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

  • 9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

  • 33And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.

  • 27And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

  • 12Come ye, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure.

  • 11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

  • 1Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

  • 30They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.

  • 18Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory.

  • 5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.

  • 16For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not been.

  • 16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

  • 33Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

  • 18Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.

  • 30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

  • 11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.

  • 10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.

  • 11Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after [man's] command.

  • 15For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

  • 7Therefore shall they now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.