Isaiah 28:8
What does Isaiah 28:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 28:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For all tables have been full of vomit, Filth--without place!
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For all the tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there was no more place.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For all tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no [more] place.
Context
v.7And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
v.8This passage
v.9Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Habakkuk 2:15
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
- Proverbs 26:11
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, So isa fool that repeateth his folly.
- Jeremiah 48:26
Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against Jehovah: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
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