Isaiah 28:4-14

4 That beautiful crown of flowers is just a dying plant set on a hill above a rich valley. That city will be like the first fig of summer. Anyone who sees it quickly picks it and eats it.
5 At that time the Lord All-Powerful will be like a beautiful crown, like a wonderful crown of flowers for his people who are left alive.
6 Then he will give wisdom to the judges who must decide cases and strength to those who battle at the city gate.
7 But now those leaders are drunk with wine; they stumble from drinking too much beer. The priests and prophets are drunk with beer and are filled with wine. They stumble from too much beer. The prophets are drunk when they see their visions; the judges stumble when they make their decisions.
8 Every table is covered with vomit, so there is not a clean place anywhere.
9 The Lord is trying to teach the people a lesson; he is trying to make them understand his teachings. But the people are like babies too old for breast milk, like those who no longer nurse at their mother's breast.
10 So they make fun of the Lord's prophet and say: "A command here, a command there. A rule here, a rule there. A little lesson here, a little lesson there."
11 So the Lord will use strange words and foreign languages to speak to these people.
12 God said to them, "Here is a place of rest; let the tired people come and rest. This is the place of peace." But the people would not listen.
13 So the words of the Lord will be, "A command here, a command there. A rule here, a rule there. A little lesson here, a little lesson there." They will fall back and be defeated; they will be trapped and captured.
14 So listen to the Lord's message, you who brag, you leaders in Jerusalem.
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