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Warning against Pride, Intemperance, and Corruption
Isa 5:18-30
The wild grapes of Judah are here continued: blind atheism, Isa 5:18-20; proud self-conceit, Isa 5:21; drunkenness, Isa 5:22; injustice in the courts, Isa 5:23-24. What a terrible description is that given in Isa 5:18 of the inevitable progress of sin! The bacchanalian procession which is seen, in Isa 5:14, descending with music and flowers into the open gates of Hades is described in Isa 5:18 as being drawn down by a cable. Men begin with a thread, but the thread of habit becomes a rope, and the rope grows to a cable, which ultimately lands a man in the pit. From Isa 5:25 onward we have the description of impending judgment. Earthquakes, armed raids, civil strife, and famine fever, the devastating inroads of hostile invasion, a desolate land and a hungry sea such would be the forces of destruction which Judah’s sin would unloose. Recent events have revealed the terror of such a visitation. Remember that the wrath of love is as severe as a consuming fire.