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Woes to Israel and Coming Judgment

Isaiah 5:8-30

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Chapter 5
8 Alas, cultic: Contact causing ritual impurity of house as family/clan motif to house as family/clan motif, portion of land to portion of land they cultic: Offering/approach to God legal: Witness the cultic: Divine presence/location of theophany of place, and you will cause to dwell alone in the midst of cosmic: Earth as cosmic counterpart to heavens. 9 In the ears of the LORD of hosts, many houses will become a desolation, great ones and good ones without inhabitant. 10 For ten pairs of vineyards will make one homer, and seed of a homer will make an ephah. 11 Alas for those who rise early in the morning to pursue strong drink, who follow it up in the evening as wine inflames them! 12 And there will be harp and lyre, tambourine and flute, and wine for their drinking-parties, but they do not regard the work of the LORD, and they have not seen the deed of his hands. 13 Therefore my people has gone into exile without knowledge, and his glory—the dying ones, hungry—and his multitude, parched, thirsty. 14 Therefore Sheol has widened its nephesh and opened its mouth without limit—its splendor and its multitude and its uproar and its revelry have gone down. 15 And Adam prostrates and Huram is humbled, and the eyes of the haughty ones will be humbled. 16 And the LORD of hosts will be exalted in justice, and the Holy God will be sanctified in righteousness. 17 And lambs will graze as their Word, and desolations of fat ones sojourners will eat. 18 Alas, you who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood and sin as with the ropes of the wagon! 19 Who say, "Let it hurry, let it hasten his work so that we may see it, and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, and let us know it." 20 Alas for those saying to evil "good" and to good "evil," putting darkness for light and light for darkness, putting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. 21 Alas, wise ones in their own eyes and before their faces, discerning ones. 22 Alas for mighty ones to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink. 23 Who acquit the wicked for a bribe and remove the righteousness of the righteous from him. 24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire consumes stubble, and dry grass sinks down in flame, their root will rot and become like rot, and their blossom will rise up like dust, for they rejected the Torah of the LORD of hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against his people, and he stretched out his hand over them and struck them. And the mountains quaked, and their carcasses became like refuse heaps in the midst of the streets. In all this his anger did not turn, and still his hand is stretched out. 26 And he will lift up a banner to the nations from afar, and whistle to them from the end of the earth. And behold, swiftly, lightly, they will come. 27 None weary and none stumbling in it; he does not slumber and does not sleep, nor is the belt of his loins opened, nor is the lace of his sandals detached. 28 whose arrows are sharpened and all its bows are drawn; its horses' hooves are reckoned as flint, and its wheels as a storm. 29 Its roar is like that of a lion to him—he roars like young lions, growls, grasps torn prey, and carries it away, and there is no deliverer. 30 And it will groan over him on that day like the groaning of the Sea. And he will look to the Earth, and behold—darkness, distress, and light darkened in its gloominesses.