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Complete Jewish Bible

Isaiah 28:8

All tables are covered with vomit and feces, not a single place is clean.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Drunkenness;   Isaiah;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Thompson Chain Reference - Corruption;   Evil;   Social Duties;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Drunkenness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Drunkenness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Disease;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Meals;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Drunkenness;   Isaiah;   Samaria, Samaritans;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Untoward;   Wine and Strong Drink;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Vagabond;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Table;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Drink, Strong;   Drunkenness;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aquila (Βλώμβσ);   Banquets;   City;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit;there is no place without a stench.
Hebrew Names Version
For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
King James Version
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
English Standard Version
For all tables are full of filthy vomit, with no space left.
New American Standard Bible
For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.
New Century Version
Every table is covered with vomit, so there is not a clean place anywhere.
Amplified Bible
For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no place [that is clean.]
World English Bible
For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
Geneva Bible (1587)
For all their tables are full of filthy vomiting: no place is cleane.
Legacy Standard Bible
For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.
Berean Standard Bible
For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
Contemporary English Version
Their tables are covered, completely covered, with their stinking vomit.
Darby Translation
For all tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no [more] place.
Easy-to-Read Version
Every table is covered with vomit. There is not a clean place anywhere.
George Lamsa Translation
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
Good News Translation
The tables where they sit are all covered with vomit, and not a clean spot is left.
Lexham English Bible
for all the tables are full of disgusting vomit, with no place left.
Literal Translation
for all tables are full of vomit and filth, without a clean place.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For all tables are so ful of vomyte and fylthynes, yt no place is clene.
American Standard Version
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
Bible in Basic English
For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For all tables are full of filthy vomit, and no place is clean.
King James Version (1611)
For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For all tables are full of vomit and filthynesse, that no place is cleane.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A curse shall devour this counsel, for this is their counsel for the sake of covetousness.
English Revised Version
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi alle bordis weren fillid with spuyng and filthis, so that ther was no more place.
Update Bible Version
For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
Webster's Bible Translation
For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
New English Translation
Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit; no place is untouched.
New King James Version
For all tables are full of vomit and filth; No place is clean.
New Living Translation
Their tables are covered with vomit; filth is everywhere.
New Life Bible
All the tables are covered with what they have spit up. There is no place that is clean.
New Revised Standard
All tables are covered with filthy vomit; no place is clean.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, all tables, are full of filthy vomit, - There is no place!
Douay-Rheims Bible
For all the tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there was no more place.
Revised Standard Version
For all tables are full of vomit, no place is without filthiness.
Young's Literal Translation
For all tables have been full of vomit, Filth -- without place!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.

Contextual Overview

1 Woe to the haughty crown of Efrayim's drunks, to the fading flower of its proud splendor, located at the head of the rich valley belonging to people overcome by wine! 2 Adonai has someone strong and powerful. He comes like a hailstorm, a destructive tempest, like a flood of water, rushing, overwhelming; with his hand he hurls them to the ground. 3 The haughty crown of Efrayim's drunks is trampled underfoot; 4 and the fading flower of its proud splendor, located at the head of the rich valley, is like the first ripe fig of summer — whoever sees it picks and eats it. 5 On that day, Adonai -Tzva'ot will be a glorious crown, a brilliant diadem for the remnant of his people. 6 He will also be a spirit of justice for whoever sits as a judge, and a source of strength for those repelling enemy attacks at the gate. 7 But there are others reeling from wine, staggering about because of strong liquor; cohen and prophet reel from strong liquor, they are confused by wine. Led astray by strong liquor, they err in their visions and stumble when judging. 8 All tables are covered with vomit and feces, not a single place is clean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 26:11, Jeremiah 48:26, Habakkuk 2:15, Habakkuk 2:16

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 25:36 - merry Proverbs 23:29 - Who hath woe Proverbs 23:32 - At Proverbs 31:4 - General Ecclesiastes 10:16 - and Isaiah 5:11 - inflame Isaiah 19:14 - as a Isaiah 29:9 - they are Isaiah 56:12 - I will Hosea 7:5 - made Matthew 23:25 - full Romans 13:13 - rioting

Cross-References

Genesis 24:3
because I want you to swear by Adonai , God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from among the women of the Kena‘ani, among whom I am living;
Genesis 28:1
So Yitz'chak called Ya‘akov, and, after blessing him, charged him: "You are not to choose a wife from the Hitti women.
1 Samuel 8:6
Sh'mu'el was not pleased to hear them say, "Give us a king to judge us"; so he prayed to Adonai .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness,.... The one signifies what is spued out of a man's mouth, his stomach being overcharged, and the other his excrements; and both give a just, though nauseous, idea of a drunken man. This vice was very common; men of all ranks and degrees were infected with it, rulers and people; and no wonder that the common people ran into it, when such examples were set them; the tables of the priests, who ate of the holy things in the holy place, and the tables of the prophets, who pretended to see visions, and to prophesy of things to come, were all defiled through this prevailing sin;

[so that there is] no place [clean] or free from vomit and filthiness, no table, or part of one, of prince, prophet, priest, and people; the Targum adds,

"pure from rapine or violence.''

R. Simeon, as De Dieu observes, makes "beli Makom" to signify "without God", seeing God is sometimes with the Jews called Makom, "place", because he fills all places; and as if the sense was, their tables were without God, no mention being made of him at their table, or in their table talk, or while eating and drinking; but this does not seem to be the sense of the passage. Vitringa interprets this of schools and public auditoriums, where false doctrines were taught, comparable to vomit for filthiness; hence it follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For all tables ... - The tables at which they sit long in the use of wine (see the note at Isaiah 5:11). There was no place in their houses which was free from the disgusting and loathsome pollution produced by the use of wine.


 
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