ISAIAH 17
The northern kingdom of Israel had allied with Syria (Damascus), and both would fall to the Assyrians. If the people you trust do not trust the Lord, their judgment may become your judgment.
God’s judgment on Israel is pictured by a sunset and a heavy person losing weight (v. 4), as well as a field that has no fruit for the gleaners (vv.
If only they had turned to God before the sun set or the disease wasted away the body or the blight destroyed the harvest! But they trusted their own idols and not the true God (vv. 7–8). How easy it is to put confidence in the work of your own hands and not in the God who made those hands!
The judgment carried them off, like houses before a flood (vv. 12–13a) or chaff and tumbleweeds before the wind (v.
The will of God is your greatest security.