Rachel Workman: Why do you continue to invite punishment?
Must you rebel forever? Why is God still having to ask this question?
Your head is injured,
and your heart is sick. And there is nothing new under the sun. How fitting.
6 You are battered from head to foot—
covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds—
without any soothing ointments or bandages. I know God was speaking to Israel, I just can't help but see a correlation to America.
7 Your country lies in ruins,
and your towns are burned.
Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes
and destroy everything they see. If we aren't careful this will be us.
8 Beautiful Jerusalem[b] stands abandoned
like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard,
like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest,
like a helpless city under siege.
9 If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
had not spared a few of us,[c] God's plan will always prevail.
we would have been wiped out like Sodom,
Must you rebel forever? Why is God still having to ask this question?
Your head is injured,
and your heart is sick. And there is nothing new under the sun. How fitting.
6 You are battered from head to foot—
covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds—
without any soothing ointments or bandages. I know God was speaking to Israel, I just can't help but see a correlation to America.
7 Your country lies in ruins,
and your towns are burned.
Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes
and destroy everything they see. If we aren't careful this will be us.
8 Beautiful Jerusalem[b] stands abandoned
like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard,
like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest,
like a helpless city under siege.
9 If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
had not spared a few of us,[c] God's plan will always prevail.
we would have been wiped out like Sodom,
destroyed like Gomorrah.
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Pat Bell: These verses give me
hope surprisingly! I see the world of today and I know he should turn his back
on us, but he always brings us around somehow. I pray he continues to show
mercy!
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John
Burnett: 5 Why should you be
beaten anymore?
Why do you persist in rebellion?
Your whole head is injured,
your whole heart afflicted.
6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head
there is no soundness—
only wounds and welts
and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged
or soothed with olive oil.
Why do you persist in rebellion?
Your whole head is injured,
your whole heart afflicted.
6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head
there is no soundness—
only wounds and welts
and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged
or soothed with olive oil.
7 Your country is desolate,
your cities burned with fire;
your fields are being stripped by foreigners
right before you,
laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
8 Daughter Zion is left
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut in a cucumber field,
like a city under siege.
9 Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us some survivors,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah.
your cities burned with fire;
your fields are being stripped by foreigners
right before you,
laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
8 Daughter Zion is left
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut in a cucumber field,
like a city under siege.
9 Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us some survivors,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah.
The consequences of Israel’s
rebellion was desolation and physical affliction. Verse 9 shows the grace
of God once more as he left some survivors to carry on the Jewish race.
This should not be a surprise as God had made a covenant with Abraham and God
always keeps His promises and cannot do something outside of His
Character. This should bring born again believers great comfort.
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Tomorrow’s reading for Isaiah
1:10-13
Listen to the Lord, you
leaders of “Sodom.”Listen to the law of our God, people of “Gomorrah.”
11 “What makes you think I want all your sacrifices?”
says the Lord.
“I am sick of your burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of fattened cattle.
I get no pleasure from the blood
of bulls and lambs and goats.
12 When you come to worship me,
who asked you to parade through my courts with all your ceremony?
13 Stop bringing me your meaningless gifts;
the incense of your offerings disgusts me!
As for your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath
and your special days for fasting—
they are all sinful and false.
I want no more of your pious meetings.
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