Monday, December 9, 2024

Isaiah 2:6-9



For You have forsaken Your people,
    the house of Jacob,
because they are replenished from the east,
    and are soothsayers like the Philistines,
    and they please themselves with the children of strangers.
Their land also is full of silver and gold,
    and there is no end to their treasures;
their land is also full of horses,
    and there is no end to their chariots.
Their land also is full of idols;
    they worship the work of their own hands,
    that which their own fingers have made.
And the common man bows down,
    and the great man humbles himself;
    therefore, do not forgive them.
Isaiah 2:6-9, Modern English Version (MEV)
 
In the time of the prophets, particularly of Isaiah, Israel had succumbed to all the enticements the world had put before her; wealth, power, entertainments of all sorts, and almost every sort of idol one could imagine. Sound familiar?
 
 

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