Isaiah 28:1

In a single image of great beauty the prophet describes the picturesque situation of the city, the tone of its society, and its ripeness for judgment. Samaria, with its ramparts and white terraced streets crowning the summit of a low hill, which rises in the middle of a fertile valley (1 Kings 16:24), is compared to the chaplet of flowers that wreathes the flushed temples of a reveller (cf. Wisd. Song of Solomon 2:7-8). But the long carousal is nearly over, the wreath is already faded and soon (Isaiah 28:3) will be dashed to the ground. The verse should be read:

Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,

And (to) the fading flower of his glorious beauty,

Which is upon the fat valley of the wine-smitten.

overcome(lit. "struck down") with wine (οἰνοπλῆγες) the last stage of intoxication. Hard drinking is compared to a combat between the toper and his drink, in which the latter is victorious, ch. Isaiah 16:8.