Isaiah 5:8 ¶
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field,
till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of
the earth! 9 In mine ears said
the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great
and fair, without inhabitant. 10 Yea,
ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall
yield an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that
rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that
continue until night, till wine inflame them! 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and
pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD,
neither consider the operation of his hands. 13
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no
knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude
dried up with thirst. 14 Therefore hell
hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory,
and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into
it. 15 And the mean man shall be brought
down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be
humbled: 16 But the LORD of hosts shall
be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in
righteousness. 17 Then shall the lambs
feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers
eat.
Verse 8 warns of the covetousness that God is
accusing Israel of. He then warns them that many of those houses, the houses of
the powerful and wealthy even, shall be empty. Their fields will produce very
little crops, a very poor yield. The people wake up and get drunk and would
rather listen to music than do the work of the Lord or consider what He has
done. This is why they will go into captivity to foreign powers. They are starving
for God’s word and for a consideration of His works for them and for His
purposes in those works. Hell is receiving them and for all of their so-called
power and worth and their self-praise they are entering in it. Poor and great
alike will suffer in Hell. God will be exalted in judgment and sanctified in
righteousness. Beasts and foreigners will eat what remains.
See what happens to Israel and Samaria while
Isaiah is preaching in Judah and Jerusalem.
2Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and
carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the
river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2Kings 18:1 ¶
Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
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