Beauty Crown Drunkards Ephraim Ephraim's Fading Fertile Flower Glorious Laid Low Pride Valley Wine Woe Wreath
28:1 Woe to the {a} crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower, who [are] on the head of the rich {b} valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
(a) Meaning, the proud kingdom of the Israelites, who were drunk with worldly prosperity.
(b) Because the Israelites for the most part dwelt in plentiful valleys, he means by this the valley of them who had abundance of worldly prosperity and were as it were crowned with garlands.
28:1 Pride - That proud and insolent kingdom. Drunkards - Having many and excellent vines among them, they were much exposed to this sin. Ephraim - Of the kingdom of the ten tribes. Who are - Who have their common abode. The head - Samaria, might well be called the head, as being seated upon a mountain, and the head of the kingdom, and the head of the fat valleys, because it was encompassed with many fat and rich valleys.
28:1-4 What men are proud of, be it ever so mean, is to them as a crown; but pride is the forerunner of destruction. How foolishly drunkards act! Those who are overcome with wine are overcome by Satan; and there is not greater drudgery in the world than hard drinking. Their health is ruined; men are broken in their callings and estates, and their families are ruined by it. Their souls are in danger of being undone for ever, and all merely to gratify a base lust. In God's professing people, like Israel, it is worse than in any other. And he is just in taking away the plenty they thus abuse. The plenty they were proud of, is but a fading flower. Like the early fruit, which, as soon as discovered, is plucked and eaten.
Beauty City Crown Dead Drink Drunkards Ephraim E'phraim Ephraim's Fading Fat Fertile Flower Glorious Glory Head Laid Overcome Pride Proud Rich Smitten Strong Valley Valleys Wine Wo Woe
Beauty City Crown Dead Drink Drunkards Ephraim E'phraim Ephraim's Fading Fat Fertile Flower Glorious Glory Head Laid Overcome Pride Proud Rich Smitten Strong Valley Valleys Wine Wo Woe
