KJV Easy Read Bible Woe to Ephraim and Jerusalem1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! fertile 2Behold, the Lord has 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. Adonaip.f. 3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: trampled 4And 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 looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up. first ripe 5In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the residue of His people. Jehovahs.f. Tsebaothp.f. 6And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. 7But 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. staggering 8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 9Whom shall He teach knowledge? and whom shall He make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. God’s teachings 10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: command, rule 11For with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people. 1 COR 14:21 12To whom He said, This is the rest wherewith youp may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13But the word of the Lord was to 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. trapped 14Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, youp scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15Because youp 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 to us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hidden ourselves: agreement; enemy A Cornerstone in Zion16Therefore thus says 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 believes shall not make haste. MATT 21:42; ROM 9:33; 1 PET 2:6 | Adonaip.f. Jehovahs.f. 17Judgment 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. 18And yourp covenant with death shall be disannulled, and yourp agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then youp shall be trodden down by it. 19From the time that it goes forth it shall take youp: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. troubling; what it means 20For 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. 21For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, He shall be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, that He may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act. extraordinary 22Now therefore be youp not mockers, lest yourp bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. scoffers; chains, fetters; Adonaip.f. Jehovahs.f. Tsebaothp.f.; destruction Listen to the Teaching of God23Give youp ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. listen 24Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground? farmer 25When he has made plain the face thereof, does he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cumin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place? sow; dill seed 26For his God does instruct him to discretion, and does teach him. 27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cumin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod. 28Bread 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. ground; grind 29This also comes forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. 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