Isaiah 28:8
6 a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.
7 These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
9 Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?
10 For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
- KJV
- For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
- WEB
- For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.
- ASV
- For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
- DARBY
- For all tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no [more] place.
- BLB
- For all the tables are full of vomit [and] filth without a place to stand.
- ÅB
- for alle bord er fulle av vemmelig spy, det finnes ikke en ren flekk.
- OTB
- Alle bordene er dekket med oppkast; det er ikke et rent sted noe sted.
- B1930
- for alle bord er fulle av vemmelig spy, det finnes ikke en ren flekk.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 48:26
“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.
Read in contextProverbs 26:11
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
Read in contextHabakkuk 2:15–16
Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
Read in context