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Chapter 28 (ESV)

⁵ In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory,
and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,
⁶ and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,
and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

⁷ These also reel with wine
and stagger with strong drink;
the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink,
they are swallowed by wine,
they stagger with strong drink,
they reel in vision,
they stumble in giving judgment.
⁸ For all tables are full of filthy vomit,
with no space left.

⁹ “To whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
those taken from the breast?
¹⁰ For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”

¹¹ For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the Lord will speak to this people,
¹²  to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
¹³ And the word of the Lord will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.

REFLECTION:

1. The priests and the false prophets in Judah were so drunk that they vomited all over the tables. Isaiah chose repeated words to mimic the staggering and stumbling of the drunkards: “do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule”.
2. Yet these drunken leaders mocked Isaiah for the simplicity and repetition with which he presented the Lord’s messages. So, God determined that the Assyrians would speak in a language God’s people could not mistake – the language of sword, fire, devastation and misery.
3. If we do not listen to God’s quiet, loving voice, he remains capable of grabbing us by the shoulders and shaking us until we pay attention!
4. What have you listened to God’s voice lately? And how did you respond?

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

HYMN:

Speak O Lord – youtu.be/ubRlJj8xkds