2 Behold the Lord hath a mighty and strong one which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm as a flood of mighty waters overflowing shall cast down to the earth with the hand
3 The crown of pride the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet
4 And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley shall be a fading flower and as the hasty fruit before the summer which when he that looketh upon it seeth while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up
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 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate
7 But they also have erred through wine and through strong drink are out of the way the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink they are swallowed up of wine they are out of the way through strong drink they err in vision they stumble in judgment
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness so that there is no place clean
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge and whom shall he make to understand doctrine them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts
10 For precept must be upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people
12 To whom he said This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest and this is the refreshing yet they would not hear
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little that they might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD ye scornful men that rule this people which is in Jerusalem
15 Because ye have said We have made a covenant with death and with hell are we at agreement when the overflowing scourge __ shall pass through it shall not come unto us for we have made lies our refuge and under false.hood have we hid ourselves
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone a tried stone a precious corner stone a sure foundation he that believeth shall not make haste
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line and righteousness to the plummet and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters shall overflow the hiding place
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled and your agreement with hell shall not stand when the overflowing scourge shall pass through then ye shall be trodden down by it
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you for morning by morning shall it pass over by day and by night and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it
21 For the LORD shall rise up 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 Now therefore be ye not mockers lest your bands be made strong for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption even determined upon the whole earth
23 Give ye ear and hear my voice hearken and hear my speech
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow doth he open and break the clods of his ground
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof doth he not cast abroad the fitches and scatter the cummin and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion and doth teach him
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod
28 Bread corn is bruised because he will not ever be threshing __ it nor break it with the wheel of his cart nor bruise it with his horsemen
29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts which is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working
