Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whosegloriousbeauty is a fadingflower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of themthat are overcomewithwine!
Behold, the Lordhath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroyingstorm, as a flood of mightywatersoverflowing, shallcastdown to the earthwith the hand.
And the gloriousbeauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fadingflower, and as the hastyfruitbefore the summer; whichwhen he thatlookethupon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
But theyalsohaveerredthroughwine, and throughstrongdrink are out of the way; the priest and the prophethaveerredthroughstrongdrink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way throughstrongdrink; they err in vision, theystumble in judgment.
But the word of the LORD was untothempreceptuponprecept, preceptuponprecept; lineuponline, lineuponline; here a little, and there a little; thattheymight go, and fallbackward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Because ye havesaid, We havemade a covenantwithdeath, and withhell are we at agreement; when the overflowingscourgeshallpassthrough, it shall not comeunto us: for we havemadelies our refuge, and underfalsehoodhave we hid ourselves:
Thereforethussaith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a triedstone, a preciouscornerstone, a surefoundation: he thatbelievethshall not makehaste.
Judgmentalsowill I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hailshallsweepaway the refuge of lies, and the watersshalloverflow the hidingplace.
And yourcovenantwithdeathshall be disannulled, and youragreementwithhellshall not stand; when the overflowingscourgeshallpassthrough, then ye shall be troddendown by it.
From the timethat it goethforth it shalltake you: for morning by morningshall it passover, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexationonly to understand the report.
For the LORDshallrise up as in mountPerazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strangework; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lestyourbands be madestrong: for I haveheardfrom the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, evendeterminedupon the wholeearth.
When he hathmadeplain the facethereof, doth he not castabroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principalwheat and the appointedbarley and the rie in theirplace?
For the fitches are not threshedwith a threshinginstrument, neither is a cartwheelturnedaboutupon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cumminwith a rod.