Saturday, June 9, 2018

Woe to those six kinds of evil doers

Isaiah 5:8-30
Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.
Therefor my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; their men of rank will die of hunger and their masses will be parched with thirst.
They do not regard for the deeds of the Lord no respect for the work of his hands.
But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the Holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness.
Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks.
Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.
Therefore the Lord's anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets.
Woe betide(臨頭) those whose wrongdoing causes God to abandon the vineyard.
In the land of Judah the vast estates built up at the expense of the poor will become waste land. Ten acres of vines will yield only 22 litres; the harvest will be only a tenth of the seed sown. Again the prophet denounces(譴責) pride, luxury, drunkenness, injustice. God will give the signal for the enemy invasion which will overwhelm them.
Why?
Sins blinded those arrogant men, they didn't know what they are doing. They are full of bride and greedy in their heart, so the Lord's anger burns against them.
There were six woe to those people, there are many such evil men existing in this world either.
How?
Be humble and understanding the way of the Lord, obey his command and follow Jesus as my savior.




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