7Now, however, Israel is led by drunks who reel with wine and stagger with alcohol. The priests and prophets stagger with alcohol and lose themselves in wine. They reel when they see visions and stagger as they render 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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