Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.
Note That is, the northern kingdom of Israel; also in verse 3
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Note overcome: Heb. broken
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 fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
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!
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the crown
- A.M. 3279. B.C. 725. 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.
- Isaiah 28:3; Hosea 5:5; Hosea 6:10
- drunkards
- Isaiah 28:7; Isaiah 5:11, 22; Proverbs 23:29; Hosea 4:11; Hosea 7:5; Amos 2:8, 12; Amos 6:6
- whose
- Isaiah 28:4; Isaiah 7:8, 9; Isaiah 8:4; 2 Kings 14:25–27; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 18:10–12; 2 Chronicles 28:6; 2 Chronicles 30:6, 7; Amos 6:1