Isaiah 27-28 - His God teaches him

From yesterday's Bible reading:

Isaiah 27:

In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

In that day,
A pleasant vineyard, sing of it!
I, the LORD, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.

In days to come Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.

Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them?
Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?

Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them;
he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind.

For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.

In that day from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt the LORD will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28:

To whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?

Those who are weaned from the milk,
those taken from the breast?

For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.

For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the LORD will speak to this people,
to whom he has said,
This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose;
yet they would not hear.

And the word of the LORD will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers,
who rule this people in Jerusalem!

Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death,
and with Sheol we have an agreement,
when the overwhelming whip passes through
it will not come to us,
for we have made lies our refuge,
and in falsehood we have taken shelter;

therefore thus says the Lord GOD,

Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion,
a stone, a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation:

Whoever believes will not be in haste.

And I will make justice the line,
and righteousness the plumb line;

(A two-dimensional foundation.)

and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
and waters will overwhelm the shelter.

Then your covenant with death will be annulled,
and your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through,
you will be beaten down by it.

As often as it passes through it will take you;
for morning by morning it will pass through,
by day and by night;
and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.

For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on,
and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.

For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim;
as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused;
to do his deed—strange is his deed!
and to work his work—alien is his work!

Now therefore do not scoff,
lest your bonds be made strong;
for I have heard a decree of destruction
from the Lord GOD of hosts against the whole land.

Give ear, and hear my voice;
give attention, and hear my speech.

Does he who plows for sowing plow continually?
Does he continually open and harrow his ground?

When he has leveled its surface,
does he not scatter dill, sow cumin,
and put in wheat in rows
and barley in its proper place,
and emmer as the border?

For he is rightly instructed;
his God teaches him.

Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin,
but dill is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.

Does one crush grain for bread?
No, he does not thresh it forever;
when he drives his cart wheel over it
with his horses, he does not crush it.

This also comes from the LORD of hosts;
he is wonderful in counsel
and excellent in wisdom.