Friday, December 8, 2023

Isaiah 24: devastation and judgement

 Isaiah 24 tells about a devastation:


1-3 Danger ahead! God’s about to ravish the earth

    and leave it in ruins,

Rip everything out by the roots

    and send everyone scurrying


but some will remain:


14-16 But there are some who will break into glad song.

    Out of the west they’ll shout of God’s majesty.

Yes, from the east God’s glory will ascend.

    Every island of the sea

Will broadcast God’s fame,

    the fame of the God of Israel.

From the four winds and the seven seas we hear the singing:

    “All praise to the Righteous One!”


The Lord will judge the powers of this world (and of the skies):


21-23 That’s when God will call on the carpet

    rebel powers in the skies and

Rebel kings on earth.

    They’ll be rounded up like prisoners in a jail,

Corralled and locked up in a jail,

    and then sentenced and put to hard labor.

Shamefaced moon will cower, humiliated,

    red-faced sun will skulk, disgraced,

Because God-of-the-Angel-Armies will take over,

    ruling from Mount Zion and Jerusalem,

Splendid and glorious

    before all his leaders.


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