7And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.
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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