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Text -- Isaiah 28:17-29 (NET)
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28:17 I will make justice the measuring line , fairness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge , the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place .
28:18 Your treaty with death will be dissolved ; your agreement with Sheol will not last . When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, you will be overrun by it.
28:19 Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you; indeed , every morning it will sweep by, it will come through during the day and the night .” When this announcement is understood , it will cause nothing but terror .
28:20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself.
28:21 For the Lord will rise up , as he did at Mount Perazim , he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon , to accomplish his work , his peculiar work , to perform his task , his strange task .
28:22 So now , do not mock , or your chains will become heavier ! For I have heard a message about decreed destruction , from the sovereign master , the Lord who commands armies , against the entire land .
28:23 Pay attention and listen to my message ! Be attentive and listen to what I have to say !
28:24 Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground ?
28:25 Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant , sow the seed of the cumin plant , and plant the wheat , barley , and grain in their designated places ?
28:26 His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.
28:27 Certainly caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge , nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed . Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick , and cumin seed with a flail .
28:28 Grain is crushed , though one certainly does not thresh it forever . The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it.
28:29 This also comes from the Lord who commands armies , who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
HOSHEA |
Isaiah |
ISAIAH, 1-7 |
ISAIAH, 8-9 |
UNTOWARD |
Wisdom |
Agriculture |
Cummin |
PROVERBS, THE BOOK OF |
Parables |
Israel |
HEZEKIAH (2) |
Infidelity |
Judgment |
Sin |
Wicked |
PARABLE |
FITCHES |
Baal-perazim |
Threshing |
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NET Notes: Isa 28:19 The words “it will come through” are supplied in the translation. The verb “will sweep by” does double duty in the parallel st...
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NET Notes: Isa 28:20 The bed and blanket probably symbolize their false sense of security. A bed that is too short and a blanket that is too narrow may promise rest and pr...
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NET Notes: Isa 28:21 God’s judgment of his own people is called “his peculiar work” and “his strange task,” because he must deal with them th...
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NET Notes: Isa 28:24 Heb “All the day does the plowman plow in order to plant?” The phrase “all the day” here has the sense of “continually, ...
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NET Notes: Isa 28:25 The Hebrew text reads literally, “place wheat [?], and barley [?], and grain in its territory.” The term שׂוֹ...
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