Isaiah 28:3-5

English Standard Version

³^(A)The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim
    will be trodden underfoot;
⁴^(B)and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
    which is on the head of the rich valley,
will be like ^(C)a first-ripe fig^[a] before the summer:
    when someone sees it, he swallows it
    as soon as it is in his hand.

⁵^(D)In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory,^[b]
and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,

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Footnotes

Isaiah 28:4 Or fruit
Isaiah 28:5 The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike

Isaiah 28:3-5

New International Version

³That wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s^(A) drunkards,
    will be trampled^(B) underfoot.
⁴That fading flower, his glorious beauty,
    set on the head of a fertile valley,^(C)
will be like figs^(D) ripe before harvest—
    as soon as people see them and take them in hand,
    they swallow them.