The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.
Parallel translations
- WEB The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
- KJV The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
- NKJV The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, Will be trampled underfoot;
- NASB The splendid crown of the habitually drunk of Ephraim is trampled underfoot.
- NLT The proud city of Samaria— the glorious crown of the drunks of Israel— will be trampled beneath its enemies’ feet.
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The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled underfoot.
Overview
The boastful glory of Ephraim's leaders will be brought low and trodden down in judgment. What was exalted in pride is humbled in the dust. This recurring biblical reversal warns that God opposes the proud and lifts up the humble, a principle fulfilled in Christ's exaltation of the lowly.
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- Heb 10:29How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
- Isa 26:6Feet trample it down—the feet of the oppressed, the steps of the poor.
- Isa 28:1Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.
- Rev 11:2But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
- 2 Kgs 9:33“Throw her down!” yelled Jehu. So they threw her down, and her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
- Dan 8:13Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long until the fulfillment of the vision of the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?”
- Isa 25:10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
- Lam 1:15The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.
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