What does Isaias Chapter 28 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The chapter’s sequence retains its particular images and conditions. Edition interpretations remain separately attributed rather than certified claims. Promises and warnings retain their scope without invented scenes or universal practical guarantees.

Chapter breakdown

Isaias 28 warns Ephraim's wine-staggering pride and fading flower. The edition identifies ten tribes and Samaria's fertile valley. Hail, whirlwind and overflowing waters precede trampled crown and hasty fruit eaten before autumn ripeness. The Lord is glory and joy to the residue, judgment for judges and strength for those returning from battle to the gate. Wine also confounds priests and prophets, with filthy tables; the edition identifies Juda.

Questions concern teaching those weaned from milk. Repeated command and expectation receive an edition explanation as resistance to divine commands. Another tongue, refused rest and backward fall, breaking, snare and capture follow. Jerusalem's scornful rulers boast of death and hell covenants and protection by lies. The Lord sets a tried precious cornerstone at Sion and tells believers not to hasten; the edition identifies Christ and patient expectation. Judgment in weight and justice in measure overturn false hope. The scourge repeatedly tramples, and vexation teaches hearing.

The narrow bed forces one out and its short covering cannot cover both; the edition applies this to the heart belonging to God. Strange work at the mountain and Gabaon receives separate battle references. Mockery risks tighter bonds. Farming then supplies ordered gith, cummin, wheat, barley, millet and vetches. Gith uses rod and cummin staff rather than saws or cartwheel; breadcorn is broken without perpetual threshing or destructive teeth. The edition compares this with divine land and varied seeds, without guaranteeing no trial can crush a soul.

The story inside

Opening: The chapter’s sequence retains its particular images and conditions. Development: Edition interpretations remain separately attributed rather than certified claims. Conclusion: Promises and warnings retain their scope without invented scenes or universal practical guarantees.

Lessons worth keeping

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The chapter’s sequence retains its particular images and conditions.
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Edition interpretations remain separately attributed rather than certified claims.
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Promises and warnings retain their scope without invented scenes or universal practical guarantees.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 80684–80686
28:1. Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.
Lines 80710–80714
28:7. But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.
Lines 80750–80753
28:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.
Lines 80755–80756
A stone in the foundations.... Viz., Christ.—Ibid. Let him not hasten, etc.... Let him expect his coming with patience.
Lines 80762–80764
28:18. And your league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it.
Lines 80800–80806
28:27. For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall the cart wheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a staff. 28:28. But breadcorn shall be broken small: but the thrasher shall not thrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it with its teeth.
Lines 80808–80809
28:29. This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to make his counsel wonderful, and magnify justice.