Bible Strands
Isaiah 28:8
For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet speaks for Yahweh to Ephraim during a pronouncement of judgment on its leaders for drunkenness and spiritual blindness.
The words — The text highlights שֻׁלְחָנ֔וֹת (shul.cha.not) = tables and קִ֣יא (ki') = vomit to describe how the leaders' places of feasting and judgment are thoroughly defiled.
The thread — This imagery of drunken defilement echoes Jeremiah 48:26, where Moab wallows in his own vomit, and Proverbs 26:11, which compares a fool returning to his vomit to repeated folly.
Why it lands — The passage demands a reader recognize that spiritual leadership corrupted by excess produces only moral and cognitive collapse, leaving no room for clear judgment or revelation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 48:26 “Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.
- Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
- Habakkuk 2:15 Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!