4And the fading flower the glory of his joy, who is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as a hasty fruit before the ripeness of autumn: which when he that seeth it shall behold, as soon as he taketh it in his hand, he will eat it up.
Isaiah 28 is a prophetic courtroom scene where God, through Isaiah, confronts the drunken leaders of Ephraim (the northern kingdom) and then the scoffing rulers of Judah. The chapter moves from a specific judgment on Samaria’s pride to a broader indictment of Jerusalem’s complace
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