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Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine! See also: Hosea 7:5Isaiah 28:72 Kings 14:25-27Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand. See also: Ezekiel 13:11Isaiah 30:30Nahum 1:8The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot. See also: Isaiah 26:6Hebrews 10:292 Kings 9:33The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer, which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it. See also: Nahum 3:12Micah 7:1Isaiah 28:1In that day, the LORD of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people, See also: 1 Peter 5:4Isaiah 62:3Isaiah 60:19and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. See also: Psalms 18:32-34John 5:30Joshua 1:9They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment. See also: Isaiah 56:10-12Luke 21:34Isaiah 19:14For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness. See also: Jeremiah 48:26Proverbs 26:11Habakkuk 2:15-16Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? See also: Psalms 131:2Jeremiah 6:10John 12:38For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little. See also: Isaiah 28:132 Timothy 3:7Jeremiah 11:7But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language, See also: 1 Corinthians 14:21Deuteronomy 28:49Jeremiah 5:15to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to the weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear. See also: Matthew 11:28-29Isaiah 30:15Jeremiah 6:16Therefore the LORD’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken. See also: Matthew 13:14Isaiah 6:9-10Matthew 21:44Therefore hear the LORD’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem: See also: Isaiah 28:22Isaiah 29:20Isaiah 1:10“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’” See also: Isaiah 8:7-8Ezekiel 13:22Hosea 2:18Therefore the Lord GOD says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily. See also: Psalms 118:22Acts 4:11-121 Peter 2:6-8I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. See also: 2 Kings 21:13Revelation 16:21Amos 7:7-9Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it. See also: Isaiah 7:7Isaiah 8:10Isaiah 28:15As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.” See also: Habakkuk 3:16Daniel 8:27Luke 21:25-26For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in. See also: Isaiah 64:61 Corinthians 1:18-31Romans 9:30-32For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act. See also: 1 Chronicles 14:11Joshua 10:122 Samuel 5:20Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, GOD of Armies, on the whole earth. See also: Isaiah 10:22-23Isaiah 24:1-23Lamentations 1:14Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech! See also: Isaiah 1:2Jeremiah 22:29Revelation 2:11Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods? See also: Jeremiah 4:3Hosea 10:11-12When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place? See also: Ezekiel 4:9Matthew 23:23Exodus 9:31-32For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him. See also: Exodus 31:3-6Exodus 36:2Daniel 1:17For the dill isn’t threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod. See also: Isaiah 41:15Isaiah 27:7-8Jeremiah 46:28Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it. See also: 1 Corinthians 3:9Isaiah 21:10John 12:24This also comes out from the LORD of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom. See also: Romans 11:33Jeremiah 32:19Job 5:9
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 28:1
Ver. 1. Ephraim. That is, the kingdom of the ten tribes. Ch. --- Flower. The pride of the kingdom shall thus decay. M. --- Head. Samaria, situated on a hill, having under it a most fertile valley. Ch. --- See Amos ii. 6. and iv. 2. Samaria was taken in the sixth year of Ezechias.
↑ 1Isaiah 28:2
Ver. 2. The Lord. By his instrument, Salmanasar. H. --- Heb. "behold the strong one, and the mighty to the Lord, as," &c. C. --- Sept. "behold the Lord's fury...as," &c. H.
↑ 2Isaiah 28:4
Ver. 4. Up. Theglathphalassar was captivated with the beauty of the country, and made it tributary. But Salmanasar, fearing a revolt, destroyed it. 4 K. xvii. 4.
↑ 4Isaiah 28:5
Ver. 5. People, who returned to the service of God; or it refer to the kingdom of Juda.
↑ 5Isaiah 28:6
Ver. 6. Gate. Ezechias reunited the divided kingdoms, and inspired his troops with courage, bringing them back victorious. 2 Par. xxx. 1. and 4 K. xviii. 7. C.
↑ 6Isaiah 28:7
Ver. 7. These also. The kingdom of Juda. Ch. --- Ezechias could not correct every abuse; though what is here specified, regards rather the reigns of his successors.
↑ 7Isaiah 28:8
Ver. 8. Place. All was defiled: they gloried in their shame.
↑ 8Isaiah 28:9
Ver. 9. Breasts? S. Paul seems to allude to this text. 1 Cor. iii. 2. C. --- The abandoned Jews ask contemptuously, if they be to be taught like children? H.
↑ 9Isaiah 28:10
Ver. 10. Command, &c. This is said in the person of the Jews, resisting the repeated commands of God, and still putting him off. Ch. --- They deride the prophets, speaking words of no meaning, as if their predictions were no better.
S. Jer. --- Think they that we have to learn the first elements, or to join syllables together? C. --- Heb. Tsau latsau, &c. H. --- The Nicholaites abused these words. S. Epiph. 25. --- Why do they not speak plain? Sometimes terrible things are denounced, God will lead them into a country where they shall indeed have to learn the language, like children. C. xxix. 11. C. --- Prot. "for precept must be upon precept...line upon line...here a little, and there a little.
For with stammering lips," &c. H.
↑ 10Isaiah 28:12
Ver. 12. Hear. To leave off their wicked practices, and cruelty. The Jews would not understand: therefore Christ spoke to them in parables. C. vi. 9. Mat. xiii.
14. &c.
↑ 12Isaiah 28:13
Ver. 13. Taken. God will make his prophets speak, notwithstanding your repugnance; or he will reduce you to the necessity of learning an unknown language. C.
↑ 13Isaiah 28:14
Ver. 14. Men, who make a parade of your knowledge, (H.) to turn the most sacred things into ridicule.
↑ 14Isaiah 28:15
Ver. 15. Protected. Their conduct spoke this language. They would not fail to make alliances with Egypt, and to trust in idols, whatever the prophets might say to dissuade them. C.
↑ 15Isaiah 28:16
Ver. 16. Stone. Christ. Ch. --- The Jews and Grotius would apply it to Ezechias.
But he was already on the throne, and never could realize these glorious promises. The people were not to believe in him, &c. C. --- Hasten. Let him expect his coming with patience. Ch. --- It would be delayed some time. Heb.
may also signify "stagger;" (C.) in which sense the Sept. and the authors of the New Test. seem to have taken it. "Whosoever believeth in him, shall not be confounded." See Rom. ix. 33. H. --- Isaias promises a Redeemer, though these people were unworthy; and then returns to his own times. M.
↑ 16Isaiah 28:17
Ver. 17. Measure. In the days of the Redeemer, they shall lead a virtuous life, (C.) or the scorners shall be treated with rigour. --- Protection. The wall, (M.) or lies, (v. 15. C.) on which you depend, shall turn to your confusion. H.
↑ 17Isaiah 28:19
Ver. 19. Hear. Under the last kings of Juda, the misery was continual. Captivity opened the eyes of the people, and they were afterwards more docile. The murder of Christ, and the subsequent evils which befell the nation, seem to have had a quite different effect. They will at last submit to his yoke. C.
↑ 19Isaiah 28:20
Ver. 20. Straitened. It is too narrow to hold two: God will have the bed of our heart all to himself. Ch. 1 Cor. x. 20. and 2 Cor. vi. 14. S. Jer. &c. --- The Jews explain it of the utmost distress, to which the people would be reduced, so that they would not be able to assist a friend.
Amos iii. 12. Forcr. C.
↑ 20Isaiah 28:21
Ver. 21. As in, &c. As the Lord fought against the Philistines in Baal Pharisim, (2 K. v.) and against the Chanaanites, in the valley of Gabaon. Jos. x. Ch. ---
Strange. He punished unwillingly. C. --- "It is not God's work to ruin what he has created." S. Jer. --- He will punish in an extraordinary manner those scoffers. v. 15. Num. xvi. 29. Piscat.
↑ 21Isaiah 28:22
Ver. 22. Earth. Nabuchodonosor will take a complete and speedy vengeance. C.
x. 22.
↑ 22Isaiah 28:24
Ver. 24. Sow. The works of the husbandman vary, so will God's punishments be inflicted with measure, according to each one's deserts. v. 27. Wisd. vi. 7. C.
↑ 24Isaiah 28:25
Ver. 25. Gith. Heb. ketsach. Sept. melanthion. H. Pliny xx. 17. M. --- Sept. have not expressed all the terms of the original, (H.) being perhaps ignorant of their meaning. S. Jer.
↑ 25Isaiah 28:26
Ver. 26. God. From him proceeds every useful invention. The pagans attributed the discovery of corn, &c. to their idols.
↑ 26Isaiah 28:27
Ver. 27. Saws, or heavy instruments. It would be thus crushed too much. C.
↑ 27Isaiah 28:28
Ver. 28. But. Sept. "it shall be eaten with bread. For I will not be angry with you for ever, nor shall the sounds of my bitter wrath trample upon you." H.
↑ 28Isaiah 28:29
Ver. 29. This also, &c. Such also is the proceeding of the Lord with his land, and the diverse seeds he sows therein. Ch.
↑ 29License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses