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| [1]Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine. |
[1]Woe to the crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim: for his glorious beauty shall be a fading flower, which is upon the head of the valley of them that be fat, and are overcome with wine. |
| [2]Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, he shall make rest for the land. |
[2]Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong host, like a tempest of hail, and a whirlwind that overthroweth, like a tempest of mighty waters that overflow, which throw to the ground mightily. |
| [3]The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the hands and with the feet. |
[3]They shall be trodden under foot, even the crown and the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim. |
| [4]And the fading flower of the glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down. |
[4]For his glorious beauty shall be a fading flower, which is upon the head of the valley of them that be fat, and as the hasty fruit afore summer, which when he that looketh upon it, seeth it, while it is in his hand, he eateth it. |
| [5]In that day the Lord of hosts shall be the crown of hope, the woven crown of glory, to the remnant of the people. |
[5]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: |
| [6]They shall be left in the spirit of judgment for judgment, and for the strength of them that hinder slaying. |
[6]And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength unto them that turn away the battle to the gate. |
| [7]For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred: this is their vision. |
[7]But they have erred because of wine, and are out of the way by strong drink: the priest and the prophet have erred by strong drink: they are swallowed up with wine: they have gone astray through strong drink: they fail in vision: they stumble in judgment. |
| [8]A curse shall devour this counsel, for this is their counsel for the sake of covetousness. |
[8]For all their tables are full of filthy vomiting: no place is clean. |
| [9]To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message? even to those that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast. |
[9]Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand the things that he heareth? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. |
| [10]Expect thou affliction on affliction, hope upon hope: yet a little, and yet a little, |
[10]For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line unto line, line unto line, there a little, and there a little. |
| [11]by reason of the contemptuous words of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying to them, |
[11]For with a stammering tongue and with a strange language shall he speak unto this people. |
| [12]This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear. |
[12]Unto whom he said, This is the rest: give rest to him that is weary: and this is the refreshing, but they would not hear. |
| [13]Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, and yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken. |
[13]Therefore shall the word of the Lord be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line unto line, line unto line, there a little and there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. |
| [14]Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, ye afflicted men, and ye princes of this people that is in Jerusalem. |
[14]Wherefore, hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men that rule this people, which is at Jerusalem. |
| [15]Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected: |
[15]Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement: though a scourge run over, and pass through, it shall not come at us: for we have made falsehood our refuge, and under vanity are we hid, |
| [16]Therefore thus saith the Lord, even the Lord, |
[16]Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lay in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation. He that believeth, shall not make haste. |
| [17]And I will cause judgment to be for hope, and my compassion shall be for just measures, and ye that trust vainly in falsehood shall fall: for the storm shall by no means pass by you, |
[17]Judgment also will I lay to the rule, and righteousness to the balance, and the hail shall sweep away the vain confidence, and the waters shall overflow the secret place. |
| [18]except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, ye shall be beaten down by it. |
[18]And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand: when a scourge shall run over and pass through, then shall ye be trod down by it. |
| [19]Whenever it shall pass by, it shall take you; morning by morning it shall pass by in the day, and in the night there shall be an evil hope. |
[19]When it passeth over, it shall take you away: for it shall pass through every morning in the day, and in the night, and there shall be only fear to make you to understand the hearing. |
| [20]ye that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered. |
[20]For the bed is strait that it cannot suffice, and the covering narrow that one cannot wrap himself. |
| [21]The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly men, and shall be in the valley of Gabaon; he shall perform his works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange. |
[21]For the Lord shall stand as in mount Perazim: he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act. |
| [22]Therefore do not ye rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the earth. |
[22]Now therefore be no mockers, lest your bonds increase: for I have heard of the Lord of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. |
| [23]Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words. |
[23]Hearken ye, and hear my voice: hearken ye, and hear my speech. |
| [24]Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground? |
[24]Doth the plowman plow all the day, to sow? Doth he open, and break the clots of his ground? |
| [25]Does he not, when he has levelled the surface thereof, then sow the small black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread-corn in thy borders? |
[25]When he hath made it plain, will he not then sow the fitches, and sow cumin, and cast in wheat by measure, and the appointed barley and rye in their place? |
| [26]So thou shalt be chastened by the judgment of thy God, and shalt rejoice. |
[26]For his God doth instruct him to have discretion, and doth teach him. |
| [27]For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon-wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread; |
[27]For fitches shall not be threshed with a threshing instrument, neither shall a cartwheel be turned about upon the cumin: but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod. |
| [28]for I will not be wroth with you for ever, neither shall the voice of my anger crush you. |
[28]Bread corn when it is threshed, he doth not always thresh it, neither doth the wheel of his cart still make a noise, neither will he break it with the teeth thereof. |
| [29]And these signs came forth from the Lord of hosts. Take counsel, exalt vain comfort. |
[29]This also cometh from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in works. |