God does not suffer his people, individually or corporately, to continue on in sin. He will do whatever He must to turn you around and keep you on the way of holiness. It's not because He hates His people, it's because He loves His people. And the point is not to leave His people in misery, but to bring them

We see these people cast down because of their sin, because of their foolishness, and then God and His grace lifting them up, promising to do so in a time yet to come. We see the casting down in verses 9-14. God speaks of the fact that He is about to bring judgment on luxury and living for pleasure. It's

The scoundrel is mentioned in verses 5 and 7. What are they like? Often we think of a scoundrel as someone who is rather dishonest. But in the Scripture it's stronger still. People think of him as bountiful, even though he is only interested in himself and in taking all to himself. And he does things in a sneaky way.

We just saw, in the first four verses, this prediction of the King Who was coming. As the King comes to reign in righteousness, He brings to light the way things really are. People, of themselves, don't do that. People try to portray themselves as what they aren't. The wicked try to justify themselves. The wicked try to make themselves

In verses 3 and 4, we see rather a progression and a contrast. Remember in Isaiah 6 Isaiah was told the people would not hear or see or understand. But now a time is coming when the eyes should be opened, the ears unstopped, the heart conformed, and the tongue bursting forth in praise.The eyes of those who see will

After all this talk of judgment and of discipline, God now has some words of promise here. There are words of judgment as well, but we begin this chapter by looking at the godly kingdom. We see, first, who is ruling. These verses may have some immediate reference to Hezekiah, who was a godly man, but he was not ultimately

These who had not put their trust in him, but rather in Egypt or had put their trust in other things, were called to repent. Why? Because ultimately, putting trust in anyone or anything else than the triune God through Jesus Christ is idolatry. We think of idols as being little statues made of gold and silver, or clay, or

In contrast to the foolishness of the people of God putting their trust and their faith in the might and the wisdom of Egypt, we see here God telling them, 'Trust in me, trust in the Lord, trust in Jehovah.' We see this in verses 4 and 5. Trust in Him, Who, first, is a strong lion. Despite the fact

There is a supernatural power and wisdom which it is wisdom to take hold of and folly to forsake. In what could be seen as outright sarcasm, God speaks to Judah through Isaiah to mention that He has some wisdom too in the beginning of verse two. The people of God should have been looking to His Word. The people

Trust in the right thing is good. But foolish trust in something that will not hold you up leads to problems. The people of Judah, the people who claimed to be the people of God, were trusting in others who could not hold them up. In verse 1 we see they trusted in natural power and wisdom. Egypt did have