Isaiah 28:2
New American Standard Bible 1995
2 Behold, the Lord has a strong and (A)mighty agent;
As a storm of (B)hail, a tempest of destruction,
Like a storm of (C)mighty overflowing waters,
He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.
Isaiah 28:17-29
New American Standard Bible 1995
17 “I will make (A)justice the measuring line
And righteousness the level;
Then (B)hail will sweep away the refuge of lies
And the waters will overflow the secret place.
18 “Your (C)covenant with death will be [a](D)canceled,
And your pact with Sheol will not stand;
When the (E)overwhelming scourge passes through,
Then you become its (F)trampling place.
19 “As (G)often as it passes through, it will [b]seize you;
For (H)morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,
And it will be [c]sheer (I)terror to understand [d]what it means.”
20 The bed is too short on which to stretch out,
And the (J)blanket is too [e]small to wrap oneself in.
21 For the Lord will rise up as at Mount (K)Perazim,
He will be stirred up as in the valley of (L)Gibeon,
To do His (M)task, His [f](N)unusual task,
And to work His work, His [g]extraordinary work.
22 And now do not carry on as (O)scoffers,
Or your fetters will be made stronger;
For I have heard from the Lord [h]God of hosts
Of decisive (P)destruction on all the earth.
23 Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my words.
24 Does the [i]farmer plow [j]continually to plant seed?
Does he continually [k]turn and harrow the ground?
25 Does he not level its surface
And sow dill and scatter (Q)cummin
And [l]plant (R)wheat in rows,
Barley in its place and rye within its [m]area?
26 For his God instructs and teaches him properly.
27 For dill is not threshed with a (S)threshing sledge,
Nor is the cartwheel [n]driven over cummin;
But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club.
28 Grain for bread is crushed,
Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever.
Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually [o]damage it,
He does not thresh it longer.
29 This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
Who has made His counsel (T)wonderful and His wisdom (U)great.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 28:18 Lit covered over
- Isaiah 28:19 Lit take
- Isaiah 28:19 Lit only
- Isaiah 28:19 Lit the report, or, the message
- Isaiah 28:20 Lit narrow
- Isaiah 28:21 Lit task is strange
- Isaiah 28:21 Lit work is alien
- Isaiah 28:22 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
- Isaiah 28:24 Lit plowman
- Isaiah 28:24 Lit all day
- Isaiah 28:24 Lit open
- Isaiah 28:25 Lit put
- Isaiah 28:25 Lit region
- Isaiah 28:27 Lit rolled
- Isaiah 28:28 Lit discomfit
Amos 8:8
New American Standard Bible 1995
8 “Because of this will not the land (A)quake
And everyone who dwells in it (B)mourn?
Indeed, all of it will (C)rise up like the Nile,
And it will be tossed about
And subside like the Nile of Egypt.
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