Judgment on Ephraim and Jerusalem. Isa 28:1-13
III. THE SIX WOES, Isaiah 28-35
1.To the Drunken
26. What is the effect of drunkenness upon an individual or a nation?
JUDGMENT ON EPHRAIM AND JERUSALEM
Woe (judgment is coming) to [Samaria] the splendid crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the rich valley Of those who are overcome with wine!
Listen carefully, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent [the Assyrian]; Like a tempest of hail, a disastrous storm, Like a tempest of mighty overflowing waters, He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.
The splendid crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trampled by [the foreigners’] feet.
And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the rich valley, Will be like the early fig before the summer, Which one sees, And as soon as it is in his hand He [greedily] swallows it [and so will the Assyrians rapidly devour Samaria, Israel’s capital].
In that day the LORD of hosts will become a magnificent crown And a glorious diadem to the [converted] remnant of His people,
A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment [administering the law], A strength to those who drive back the battle at the gate.
But even these reel with wine and stagger from strong drink: The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink; They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; They reel while seeing visions, They stagger when pronouncing judgment.
For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no place [that is clean.]
They say “To whom would He teach knowledge? And to whom would He explain the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast?
“For He says, ‘Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Rule upon rule, rule upon rule, Here a little, there a little.'”
Indeed, the LORD will teach this people [in a more humiliating way] By [men with] stammering lips and a foreign tongue,
He who said to them, “This is the place of quiet, give rest to the weary,” And, “This is the resting place,” yet they would not listen.
Therefore the word of the LORD to them will be [merely monotonous repetitions]: “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Rule upon rule, rule upon rule, Here a little, there a little.” That they may go and stumble backward, and be broken, ensnared, and taken captive.
26. What is the effect of drunkenness upon an individual or a nation?
THE DECAY OF AN INTEMPERATE PEOPLE
A new series of prophecies begins here and extends to Isa_32:20. Samaria is described as a faded crown or garland on the nation’s head because it was disgraced by the national drunkenness. See Amo_4:1. So corrupted was she by strong drink and its attendant evils that the Assyrian invader would plunder her as a man gathers ripe figs. But to Judah, that is, the remnant, the Lord would be a crown or garland, not of pride but of glory. His beauty would not be as a fading flower, but a lasting diadem. What wine is to the sensuous man, that God is to the spiritual. See Eph_5:18. You that have to form right judgments, and you that have to turn the battle from the gate, will find all your need in Him. In Isa_28:7-8 we have a terrible picture of widespread effects of strong drink; and in Isa_28:9-10 the prophet recites the ribald remarks addressed to himself by the roisterers of those evil days. He replies that God would Himself answer them by the stern accents of the Assyrian tongue, which would sound like stammering, Isa_28:11; and this would befall them because they would not need the wooing accents of His love, Isa_28:12.
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