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Woe to the crown of arrogance, the hired men of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from glory, on the top of the rich mountain, those who are drunk without wine.
Behold, the wrath of the Lord is strong and harsh, like hail coming down that has no shelter, coming down violently, like a great mass of water sweeping away a land; he will make rest for the earth with his hands.
And the fallen flower of the hope of glory, on the summit of the high mountain, shall be like an early fig: whoever sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will want to swallow it.
For these have gone astray through wine; they went astray through strong drink. Priest and prophet lost their senses through wine; they were shaken by the drunkenness of strong drink; they went astray. That is, an apparition.
And the oracle of the Lord God shall be to them: affliction upon affliction, hope upon hope, yet a little, yet a little, so that they may go and fall backward, and be endangered and be crushed and be captured.
For you said: We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with Death; if a rushing storm passes by, it shall not come upon us; we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood we shall be sheltered.
Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I lay into the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a chosen, precious cornerstone, for her foundations; and the one who believes in him shall not be put to shame.
Shall he not also take away your covenant with death? And your hope toward Hades shall not remain. If a rushing storm comes upon you, you shall be trampled down by it.
He shall rise up like a mountain of the impious, and he shall be in the valley of Gabaon; with wrath he will do his works, a work of bitterness; and his wrath shall act strangely, and his bitterness is strange.
And as for you, may you not rejoice, nor let your bonds grow strong; for I have heard from the Lord Sabaoth things completed and cut short, which he will do upon all the earth.
Is it not when he has leveled its surface that he then sows a little black cumin and cumin, and again sows wheat and barley and spelt within your borders?
豈不是當他把地面耙平了,那時他才撒下少許黑種草和大茴香,又在你的境內撒下小麥、大麥和粗麥嗎?
28:26
καὶπαιδευθήσῃκρίματιθεοῦσουκαὶεὐφρανθήσῃ
And you shall be instructed by the judgment of your God, and you shall rejoice.
For black cumin is not cleaned with harshness, nor will a cart wheel be driven over the cumin; but the black cumin is beaten out with a rod, and the cumin —