Isaiah 28:3

28:3 The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards

will be trampled underfoot.

Isaiah 28:7-8

28:7 Even these men ¹  stagger because of wine,

they stumble around because of beer –

priests and prophets stagger because of beer,

they are confused ²  because of wine,

they stumble around because of beer;

they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, ³ 

they totter while making legal decisions. ⁴ 

28:8 Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit;

no place is untouched. ⁵ 

[28:7]  ¹ tn Heb “these.” The demonstrative pronoun anticipates “priests and prophets” two lines later.

[28:7]  ² tn According to HALOT 135 s.v. III בלע, the verb form is derived from בָּלַע (bala’, “confuse”), not the more common בָּלַע (“swallow”). See earlier notes at 3:12 and 9:16.

[28:7]  ³ tn Heb “in the seeing.”

[28:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “[in] giving a decision.”

[28:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “vomit, without a place.” For the meaning of the phrase בְּלִי מָקוֹם (bÿli maqom, “without a place”), see HALOT 133 s.v. בְּלִי.