John Trapp on Isaiah 28:1

CHAP. XXVIII.

Ver. 1. VVO to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim] Drunkenneſs is a ſin, at the heel whereof hangeth many a Woe. Some think it is a dry drunkenneſs that is here threatned (that there is a dry drunkenneſs as well as a wet; ſee chap. 51.21. 2 Tim. 2.26. [non-Latin text not transcribed] that they may awake out of their drunken ſleep) a drunkenneſs with proſperity, which made them proud and diſſolute, even the King of Iſrael and his Counſellors alſo; not conſidering that in maxima libertate minima eſt licentia; It is not for Kings to drink wine, Prov. 31.4.

Whoſe glorious beauty is a fading flower] Or, and to the fading flower of his goodly gallantry. Some conceive that the Prophet here alludeth to the Etymologie of the word Ephraim, whereof ſee Gen. 41.42. but Ephraim was now declining and decaying.

[non-Latin text not transcribed] Crapula, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. That are overcome with wine] Heb. ſmitten, beaten, overmaſtered, as Siſera was by Jaels hammer, which hath its name from the word here uſed, Judges 4.23. Tremellius rendreth it, Obtuſis vino, to thoſe that are blunted with wine, or beaten about ears with it.