Isaiah 28:2-4

New International Reader's Version

² The Lord will bring the strong and powerful king of Assyria against Samaria.
    The Lord will throw that city down to the ground with great force.
It will be like a hailstorm.
    It will be like a wind that destroys everything.
    It will be like a driving rain and a flooding storm.
³ That city is like a wreath.
    The leaders of Ephraim are drunk.
They take pride in their city.
    But its enemies will walk all over it.
⁴ It sits on a hill above a rich valley.
    The city is like a wreath of flowers whose glorious beauty is fading away.
But it will become like figs that are ripe before harvest.
    As soon as people see them,
    they pick them and swallow them.