For the head of Aram is (A)Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces, so that it is no longer a people), and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. (B)If you will not believe, you certainly shall not [a]last.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:9 Or endure

for the head of Aram is Damascus,(A)
    and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.(B)
Within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be too shattered(C) to be a people.
The head of Ephraim is Samaria,(D)
    and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand(E) firm in your faith,(F)
    you will not stand at all.’”(G)

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Ephraim’s Captivity Predicted

28 Woe to the proud crown of the (A)habitually drunk of (B)Ephraim,
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the [a]fertile valley
Of those who are [b]overcome with wine!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:1 Lit valley of fatness
  2. Isaiah 28:1 Lit stricken

Woe to the Leaders of Ephraim and Judah

28 Woe(A) to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s(B) drunkards,
    to the fading flower, his glorious beauty,
set on the head of a fertile valley(C)
    to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!(D)

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The splendid crown of the habitually drunk of Ephraim is (A)trampled underfoot.

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That wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s(A) drunkards,
    will be trampled(B) underfoot.

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