EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
Isaiah 28:7,8
At a time of great danger, the nation needed wise leaders. But the leaders’ love of wine has made them completely foolish.
At a time of great danger, the nation needed wise leaders. But the leaders’ love of wine has made them completely foolish.
BUT THEY ALSO HAVE ERRED THROUGH WINE - In the previous verses the prophet had said that the kingdom of Judah should be saved, while that of Ephraim should be destroyed. Yet he does not deny that they...
3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...
JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...
THEY. Referring to Judah. STRONG DRINK. Hebrew. _shekar_. App-27. JUDGMENT. pronouncing judgment....
_the priest and the prophet_ Better: PRIEST AND PROPHET. These are specially mentioned as the spiritual leaders of the people, who opposed Isaiah in the name of Jehovah, and backed up the plans of the...
BUT THEY ALSO HAVE ERRED, &C.— _But they also stagger with wine, and reel with strong drink: the priest and the prophet stagger through strong drink; they are drowned in wine; they reel with strong dr...
V. EMANCIPATION NOT FROM EGYPT Chapter S 28 - 35 A. FOUNDATION THAT IS FIRM, Chapter S 28-29 1. STUPIDITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:1-13 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fa...
In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, -The prophet now turns to Judah, a gracious promise to the remnant ("residue...
28:7 overpowered (c-28) Lit. 'are swallowed up,' as ch. 3.12....
This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...
THEY ALSO] the men of Judah. THEY ERR IN VISION, etc.] They are drunk when engaged in the sacred duties of their office; the tables they have just left prove it (Isaiah 28:8)....
BUT THEY ALSO HAVE ERRED THROUGH... — Better, _yet these also reel_ ... Isaiah acts on the method of Nathan when he said, _“_Thou art the man.” He has painted the drunkards of Ephraim; now he turns an...
וְ גַם ־אֵ֨לֶּה֙ בַּ † יַּ֣יִן שָׁג֔וּ...
BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...
THE DECAY OF AN INTEMPERATE PEOPLE Isaiah 28:1-13 A new series of prophecies begins here and extends to Isaiah 32:20. Samaria is described as a faded crown or garland on the nation's head because it...
Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...
But (g) they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the...
_These also. The kingdom of Juda. (Challoner) --- Ezechias could not correct every abuse; though what is here specified, regards rather the reigns of his successors._...
Here is another solemn charge, and more pointed than the former. Errors are not only found in Ephraim, but in Judah; not only among the carnal, but the professor. Yea, God's ministers, both prophet an...
_WINE IS A MOCKER_ ‘They also have erred through wine.’ Isaiah 28:7 I sin against myself when I yield to the power of wine. You tell me that there is no reason why I should become a confirmed drunk...
7._But they also have erred through wine. _He returns to the irreligious despisers of God, who were Jews in name only, and proves their ingratitude to be highly aggravated, because, though they had be...
Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...
BUT THEY ALSO HAVE ERRED THROUGH WINE,.... Either they that sat in judgment, and turned the battle to the gate, as Jarchi interprets it: or rather, since the Lord was a spirit of judgment and strength...
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way t...
_But they also have erred_ But, alas! Judah is guilty of the same sins with Israel, therefore they also must expect the same calamities, of which he speaks afterward. _The priest_ To whom strong drink...
But they also have erred through wine, the rulers of Judah being addicted to tile same vice as those of Samaria, AND THROUGH STRONG DRINK ARE OUT OF THE WAY, reeling and staggering in their drunkennes...
CONCERNING SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM. Chapter s 28 to 33 in the Book of Isaiah contain a cycle of prophecies and proclamations concerning the relation of Judah to Assyria in the time of King Hezekiah. Aha...
5-15 The prophet next turns to Judah, whom he calls the residue of his people. Happy are those alone, who glory in the Lord of hosts himself. Hence his people get wisdom and strength for every servic...
But, alas! Judah is guilty of the same sins with Israel, and therefore they also must expect the same calamities; of which he speaks afterward. They run into the same excess of wine and strong drink,...
Isaiah 28:7 they H428 erred H7686 (H8804) wine H3196 drink H7941 way H8582 (H8804) priest H3548 prophet...
BACK TO THE PRESENT. THE CONDITION OF JUDAH (ISAIAH 28:7). Many view this movement back to the present as commencing a reference to Judah (see Isaiah 28:14), as against Israel in Isaiah 28:1, which wo...
CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...
Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...
_But they also have erred through wine_ “SWALLOWED UP OF WINE” This is how all debasement continues, aggravates itself, and brings itself to shameful issue. No man begins at the point of being swall...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:1 God’s Sovereign Word Spoken into the World: “Ah!” God controls history (chs. Isaiah 28:1), moving events toward final judgment and salvation (chs.
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:7 THESE ALSO. Judah in the south. THE PRIEST AND THE PROPHET. The leaders entrusted with God’s word....
SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance
Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...
Ecclesiastes 10:17; Ephesians 5:28; Ezekiel 13:7; Ezekiel 44:21;...
But — Judah is guilty of the same sins with Israel, therefore they also must expect the same calamities; of which he speaks afterward. The prophet — The teachers, who should have been patterns of sobr...