Isaías 28:18-28

18 E o vosso pacto com a morte será anulado; e a vossa aliança com o Seol não subsistirá; e, quando passar o flagelo trasbordante, sereis abatidos por ele.

19 Todas as vezes que passar, vos arrebatará; porque de manhã em manhã passará, de dia e de noite; e será motivo de terror o só ouvir tal notícia.

20 Pois a cama é tão curta que nela ninguém se pode estender; e o cobertor tão estreito que com ele ninguém se pode cobrir.

21 Porque o Senhor se levantará como no monte Perazim, e se irará como no vale de Gibeão, para realizar a sua obra, a sua estranha obra, e para executar o seu ato, o seu estranho ato.

22 Agora, pois, não sejais escarnecedores, para que os vossos grilhões não se façam mais fortes; porque da parte do Senhor Deus dos exércitos ouvi um decreto de destruição completa e decisiva, sobre toda terra.

23 Inclinai os ouvidos, e ouvi a minha voz; escutai, e ouvi o meu discurso.

24 Porventura lavra continuamente o lavrador, para semear? ou está sempre abrindo e esterroando a sua terra?

25 Não é antes assim: quando já tem nivelado a sua superfície, então espalha a nigela, semeia o cominho, lança o trigo a eito, a cevada no lugar determinado e a espelta na margem?

26 Pois o seu Deus o instrui devidamente e o ensina.

27 Porque a nigela não se trilha com instrumento de trilhar, nem sobre o cominho passa a roda de carro; mas a nigela é debulhada com uma vara, e o cominho com um pau.

28 Acaso é esmiuçado o trigo? não; não se trilha continuamente, nem se esmiúça com as rodas do seu carro e os seus cavalos; não se esmiúça.

Isaías 28:18-28 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 28

In this chapter the ten tribes of Israel and the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, are threatened with divine judgments, because of their sins and iniquities mentioned. The ten tribes, under the name of Ephraim, for their pride and drunkenness, Isa 28:1 the means of their destruction, the Assyrian monarch, compared to a hail storm, and a flood of mighty waters, Isa 28:2 which destruction, for their sins, is repeated, and represented as sudden and swift; when they would be like a fading flower and hasty fruit, Isa 28:3,4 and then, as for the two tribes, though they had a glorious prince at the head of them, who had a spirit of wisdom and judgment for government, and of valour and courage for war, Isa 28:5,6 yet the generality of the people, led on by the example of priest and prophet, went into the same sensual gratifications as they of the ten tribes did, Isa 28:7,8 and became sottish and unteachable, and were like children just taken from the breast, and to be used as such, Isa 28:9-11 and though the doctrine proposed to be taught them was such as, if received, would be of the greatest advantage to them, for their comfort and refreshment, yet it was refused by them with the utmost contempt; which was to be their ruin, Isa 28:12,13, wherefore the rulers of Jerusalem are threatened with the judgments of God, which should come upon them night and day, the report of which would be a vexation to them; and from which they should not be screened by their covenant with death and hell, or by their shelters and coverings with lies and falsehood, in which they placed their confidence, Isa 28:14,15 Isa 28:17-22 in the midst of which account, for the comfort of the Lord's people, stands a glorious prophecy, concerning the sure foundation laid in Zion, on which all that are built are safe and happy, Isa 28:16 and the certainty of these judgments is illustrated by the method which the ploughman takes in sowing his corn, and threshing it out; for which he has instruction and direction from the Lord of hosts, Isa 28:23-29.