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Isaiah 28 Woe to Ephraim and Jerusalem | Cornerstone in Zion | Listen to the Teaching of God

Isaiah 28:1-15 Woe to Ephraim and Jerusalem
Isaiah 28:16-22 Cornerstone in Zion
Isaiah 28:23-29 Listen to the Teaching of God

Isaiah 28:16
16 Therefore thus says the Lord God:

“Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation,
A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;
Whoever believes will not act hastily.
17
Also I will make justice the measuring line,
And righteousness the plummet;
The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
And the waters will overflow the hiding place.
18
Your covenant with death will be annulled,
And your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
Then you will be trampled down by it.
19
As often as it goes out it will take you;
For morning by morning it will pass over,
And by day and by night;
It will be a terror just to understand the report.”

Isaiah 28:23-26
23
Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my speech.
24
Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow?
Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
25
When he has leveled its surface,
Does he not sow the black cummin
And scatter the cummin,
Plant the wheat in rows,
The barley in the appointed place,
And the spelt in its place?
26
For He instructs him in right judgment,
His God teaches him.

Isaiah 28:27-29
27
For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin;
But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick,
And the cummin with a rod.
28
Bread flour must be ground;
Therefore he does not thresh it forever,
Break it with his cartwheel,
Or crush it with his horsemen.
29
This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance (sound wisdom).