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Isa_28:1 Woe 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!
Ver. 1. Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim.] Drunkenness is a sin, at the heel whereof hangeth many a woe. Some think it is a dry drunkenness that is here threatened - that there is a dry drunkenness as well as a wet; see Isa_51:21 2Ti_2:26, éíá áíáíçøùóé , that they may awake out of their drunken sleep - a drunkenness with prosperity, which made them proud and dissolute, even the king of Israel and his counsellors also, not considering that in maxima libertate minima est licentia; " it is not for kings to drink wine." {Pro_31:4}
Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower.] Or, And to the fading flower of his goodly gallantry. Some conceive that the prophet here alludeth to the etymology of the word Ephraim, whereof see Gen_41:42, but Ephraim was now declining and decaying.
That are overcome with wine.] Heb., Smitten, beaten, overmastered, as Sisera was by Jael’s hammer, which hath its name from the word here used. {Jdg_4:22} Tremellius rendereth it, obtusis vino, to those that are blunted with wine, or beaten about the ears with it. {a}
{a} Kñáéðáëç , Crapula, ðáñá ôï ðáëëåéí ôï êáñá .