[28:1] Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
[28:2] Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he casts down to the earth with his hand.
[28:3] The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot;
[28:4] and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it is in his hand.
[28:5] In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,
[28:6] and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
[28:7] These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
[28:8] For all tables are full of filthy vomit, with no space left.
[28:9] “To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?
[28:10] For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
[28:11] For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people,
[28:12] to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear.
[28:13] And the word of the Lord will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.