Isaiah 28:1-3

New International Reader's Version

28 How terrible it will be for the city of Samaria!
    It sits on a hill like a wreath of flowers.
The leaders of Ephraim are drunk.
    They take pride in their city.
It sits above a valley that has rich soil.
    How terrible it will be for the glorious beauty of that fading flower!
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.