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Isaiah 28:1
1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!
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The Nature of Rest in Christ differs fundamentally from earthly comfort.
Yet the original context reveals something entirely different: this verse records a drunken sneer from mockers who despised the simplicity of Isaiah's prophetic message.
The prophet employs the phrase "men of strange lips" to underscore the *alien* nature of this divine communication.
King Hezekiah had already stripped three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold from the royal treasury and Temple doors—a desperate ransom that bought only temporary relief.
First, safe hiding-places are founded upon Christ alone, the foundation God has laid in Zion.