ISAIAH CHAPTER 28

Isaiah 28:1-9 (NASB)
1  Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley Of those who are overcome with wine!

2  Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent; As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

3  The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trodden under foot.

4  And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley, Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to summer, Which one sees, And as soon as it is in his hand, He swallows it.

5  In that day the LORD of hosts will become a beautiful crown And a glorious diadem to the remnant of His people;

6  A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment, A strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

7  And these also reel with wine and stagger from strong drink: The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; They reel while having visions, They totter when rendering judgment.

8  For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.

9  "To whom would He teach knowledge, And to whom would He interpret the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast?

Isaiah 28:10-13 (NASB)

10  "For He says, 'Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.'"

11  Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

12  He who said to them, "Here is rest, give rest to the weary," And, "Here is repose," but they would not listen.

13  So the word of the LORD to them will be, "Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there," That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.

Isa 28:1-9 is a chastisement and a warning to Ephraim by God through the prophet Isaiah about their drunkenness and to stop corrupting the Word of God through the addition or replacement of the Word of God with words from false prophets, who embraced idolatry; thereby contaminating the truths in Scripture about the God of the Word of God Whom they were commanded to worship, (cf. Isa 8:19-20). 

Otherwise it was written in Isa 28:11 that God will speak to this people, (the Assyrians) and Israel will hear the language of the Assyrian rulers who will attack and capture them - a language, which is characterized as a language of stammering lips and a foreign tongue. Which verse 10 previously conveyed as gibberish in the hearing of those of Israel, as follows:

כִּ֣י               צַ֤ו          לָצָו֙             צַ֣ו            לָצָ֔ו
Because a letter to a letter a letter to a letter
For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,

קַ֥ו        לָקָ֖ו           קַ֣ו       לָקָ֑ו
a line to a line a line  to a line
line upon line, line upon line,

זְעֵ֥יר       שָׁ֖ם      זְעֵ֥יר       שָֽׁם׃
a little there a little there
here a little, there a little.

Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there - as if in a foreign language.