Isaiah 30-33 • In quietness and in trust shall be your strength

Isaiah chapter 30 it's where we're gonna be picking it up tonight and so we're gonna begin with prayer father we thank you so much for giving us your word and you know these are these are some tough chapters to go through but we pray that you would help us and give us a heart of understanding grant us Lord God to not just get what is being said here in these chapters Lord but also to think about how we can apply them and what they teach us Lord about you about your character your heart we pray that you would give us wisdom and insight we pray Lord for a heart of understanding we ask it in Jesus name Amen you know it's fitting that we should begin the study of Isaiah each and every time asking for a heart of understanding because you know that's exactly what Isaiah was saying to the people of Judah and we're gonna see that here tonight is that they refused to have a heart of understanding as it relates to hearing the Word of God and responding to that word in a way that would take serious you know what God was saying and not only that but as we get into chapter 30 here we're gonna see the Lord also confronting the people of Judah and I'm gonna use the word Israel and Judah interchangeably okay but but remember something Isaiah's prophecies are given to the southern kingdom of Judah but they're Israelites right they're still Israelites but they're living in the southern kingdom of Judah and and not the Northern Kingdom of Israel but that is these are the people that that that Isaiah was called to prophesy to and and I want to remind you too that the nation that was causing fear you never it's hard at this time was the nation of Assyria and Assyria was going around conquering everybody and everybody was afraid and everybody was trying to figure out what they were gonna do to be able to stand against Assyria and that included the people in the southern kingdom of Judah and what they were doing and they'd gotten so far away from the Lord by this time that many people were saying we need to have an ally and instead of turning to the Lord as their ally they would say we need to go to Egypt Egypt was considered to be a fairly strong nation so we need to tell you what let's let's get some camels and donkeys and we'll load them up with gold and silver and we'll send some envoys to Egypt and we'll kind of butter up you know Pharaoh a little bit and get him kind of all feeling good about things and we'll tell MA we'll pay you a whole bundle of money if you'll just come against us stand against the Assyrian threat with us because I believe this is what they were saying I believe that if you do that we have a fighting chance against the Assyrians if we come together in kind of a you know connected United approach against this possible Assyrian invasion we can do this thing and gods like what about me are you putting your trust in man before you're putting your trust in me look what he begins to say here as he opens up chapter 30 through the prophet Isaiah he says ah stubborn children declares the Lord who carry out a plan but it's not mine and who make an alliance but not of my spirit that they may add sin to sin who set out to go down to Egypt without asking for my direction to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt I want to remind you as we pause there for just a moment that Egypt for us in the scripture presents a metaphorical picture if you will of the world and when we see Israel back during the time of Moses being delivered from their bondage in Egypt that's a picture of the believer being delivered from their bondage and slavery to the world being brought out and delivered and and baptized through the Red Sea and and taught in the wilderness and then finally entering in entering into the promises of God that we see as the nation of Israel finally goes into the Promised Land so this picture of Egypt is is a is a you know a picture of what it is to come out of the world and yet what are the people of God doing now they're going back to the world seeking solace and protection and guidance and wisdom from the world and so this is a picture of believers turning away from God and turning to the world which they've been delivered from right and we believers we like to say that you know we have a new king and we are under this in this the king and his name is Jesus but then when hard times crop up we sometimes run right to the world we go to the world for answers we go to the world for comfort you remember what Jesus said in John 18 let me put this on the screen for you jesus said My Kingdom is not of this world again we like to say we have a king and we're part of a different Kingdom well guess what Jesus made it very clear his kingdom is not of this world is nothing to do with this world and so if we're gonna put our trust in the king we know that it's going to be otherworldly we know that the wisdom that we get is going to be otherworldly meaning other than the world would give the comfort that we receive the peace that we get is going to be otherworldly jesus said my peace I give you not as the world gives how does the world give peace well using physical what we consider to be rational things like well I know it's going to give us peace will create an alliance with Egypt and then boy when we got the strength of Egypt behind us we're gonna be able to sleep well at night let me tell you right now we're gonna sleep in peace well that's the kind of peace the world gives it's peace based on circumstances that I kind of create for myself and then trust in the problem is it it's very short-lived it could be broken in a moment Jesus says I give you peace but not as the world gives what is his peace like well it goes on it can't be shaken when we put our trust in the Lord it can't be shaken as far as his power his ability doesn't mean we can't be shaken we can but I'm saying his power and what we trust in cannot be shaken and so forth because it's it's him and there's no power above him so he's now confronting you know the nation of Judah the kingdom of Judah about their desire to create this alliance with Egypt he says in verse three therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation it's only going to result in shame and humiliation he says verse four for though his officials are at son and his envoys reach hannes in other words he covers a pretty broad area everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them that brings neither help nor profit but shame and disgrace and now he's going to speak about those caravans of camels and beasts of burden that are on their way to Egypt to butter up Pharaoh to pay him off to hire them as an alliance look what he says in verse 6 the an Oracle on the beasts of the Negev these are the this is the caravan taking things to Egypt through a land of trouble and anguish from where comes the lioness and the lion the adder and the fiery a flying fiery serpent they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a people that cannot profit them and so he says in verse seven Egypt's help is worthless and empty therefore I basically called her Rahab who sits still in other words Rahab who will do you no good Rahab who will not get off the dime to lift one finger to help you you're gonna take all this money and all this riches and all this wealth over to Egypt and you know it's not gonna it's not going to help you at all now check out verse eight and now go write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever now why did you stop there for just a moment I want to tell you what God is telling Isaiah to do here he's telling him to go write these prophecies down he gave him these prophecies to give to the people of Judah but they weren't listening so he says I want you to write this down then it might be for a time to come and then at later on it's going to be a witness in other words there's going to be a generation that's going to come forth later and they're good at read of these things and they're gonna know what happened they're gonna know that Egypt did not serve Judas purposes they did not bring any protection they did not create an alliance against the Assyrian invasion threat and they were absolutely no help at all the people who are living right now they're not listening to me but there's gonna come a generation and they're gonna listen so Isaiah I want you to write it down I want you to write it down and he begins to talk about these people who are living now he says for they are a rebellious people lying children children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord who say to the seers do not see and to the prophets do not prophesy to us what is right speak to us smooth things in other words easy things prophesy illusions leave the way turn aside from the path let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel that's the attitude of the people of juda right now we don't want to hear anything more from this from the God of Israel the Holy One of Israel just tell us what we want to hear you know the Bible tells us that'll be the attitude in the last days among people as well they'll turn from the truth they'll turn from the hardness the difficulty of the truth and instead they will gather around themselves teachers that'll tell them what they want to hear and we are seeing that a lot today verse 12 therefore here's God's response thus says the Holy One of Israel because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall bulging out and about to collapse who's breaking comes suddenly in an instant now you and I we don't put walls around our cities like they did back then because that was a form of protection we have walls on our homes obviously but a walled city was a was a thing of protection it was what they used to protect themselves from the enemy and he says that your inability to hear the word in fact your heart and your attitude to despise the word will be to you like a breach in the wall in other words the enemy is going to be able to get in because you despise my word and you know the enemy in their case was Assyria but do you know Christians that this is still true of us in our Christian lives when we get to that point and Christians can do this Christians can despise God's Word as it relates to certain aspects or areas Christians can do that and when that happens we create a breach in the wall and the enemy can attack you know Paul wrote and said don't give the devil a foothold a foothold is the ability to to scale the wall you know and get into our lives and create all kinds of havoc he says don't do that don't give the enemy a foothold well what gives him a foothold when we're not listening when we're not responding I got a letter from a young man who was all upset about a marriage that was about to take place in his family he says his his sister was getting married and they either he says our family is all Christian but is you know his father was concerned that his sister was you know never gonna get married or something so he found her a man to marry but the problem is he compromised and found someone who was not a believer and you know I wrote to the young man I said well is your father a believer he said oh yeah hold on why is he done your sister to do what is in direct violation to the Word of God as it relates to being unequally yoked with an unbeliever well you know we there are times we just despised the Word of God you know and we create all kinds of difficulty when we when we turn a blind eye to the importance of some aspect you know of God's Word so he says it's gonna be like a a breach in the wall verse 14 and it's breaking is like that of a Potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth or to dip up water out of the cistern they would actually used pieces of broken pottery large pieces to scoop burning coals out of the hearth you know and take them somewhere wherever they needed to take them they kind of used them as tools or they could even take a portion of a of a large pottery something or other and and if one even when it's broken it can be used to dip water out of a cistern but God is saying that the the devastation that is going to be coming is going to be so complete so total that it will be like a Potter's vessel that is smashed so much that there even a large piece to be found it just speaks of a total devastation verse 15 for thus said the Lord God the Holy One of Israel in returning and rest you shall be saved in quietness and in trust shall be your strength but you were unwilling and you said no we will flee upon horses therefore you shall flee away and we will ride upon Swift steeds therefore your pursuers shall be Swift a thousand shall flee at the threat of one at the threat of five you shall flee till you are left like a Flagstaff on the top of a mountain like a signal on a hill you know this is a this is a sad thing that God is saying to the people of Judah because one of the promises he gave them in the Mosaic law was that if they worshipped him and him alone and were true to their devotion to him that their enemies would not be able to stand and one of the things God said was you know he basically turned this thing around and he said at the threat of one of you a thousand shall flee but now it's flip-flopped on them at the threat of one of their enemies a thousand of them shall flee and at the threat of just five of their enemies the whole nation will flee now as we get into verse 18 here God now begins to speak of that later generation who he told Isaiah to write all this stuff down for who would heed the word and this I want you to hear and and and see what the Lord says about this group he says therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you he's waiting for that generation to come who's gonna listen the Lord waits to be gracious to you and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you for the Lord is a God of justise blessed are all who wait for him for a people shall dwell in Zion in Jerusalem you shall weep no more he will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry as soon as he hears it he answers you and though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction in other words though difficult times may come yet your teacher will not hide himself any more but your eyes shall see your teacher and your ears shall hear a word behind you saying this is the way walk in it when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left and he goes on to say then in other words at that time you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold plated metal images you will scatter them as unclean things you will say to them be gone and he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground and bread the produce of the ground which will be rich and plenteous in that day your livestock will graze in large pastures and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder which has been winnowed with shovel and fork and on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun will be Sevenfold as the light of seven days in the day when the Lord binds up the brokenness of his people and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow in other words the glory of the Lord he's talking about the glory of the Lord that will be as if the the light of the Sun is Sevenfold and in these final verses of the chapter the Lord speaks of the pending defeat of the Assyrian army which will come by his own hand and not by the hand of any human means verse 27 behold the name of the Lord comes from afar burning with his anger and in thick rising smoke his lips are full of fury and his tongue is like a devouring fire his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck to sift to the nations with the sieve of destruction and a place on the jaws of the peoples of bridle that leads astray you shall have song as in the night when a holy feast is kept and gladness of heart as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord to the rock of Israel and the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire with a cloud burst and storm and hailstones the Assyrians will be terror stricken at the voice of the Lord when he strikes with his rod and every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them will be to the sound of tambourines and Liars battling with brandished arm he will fight with them for a burning place has long been prepared indeed for the king it is made ready its pyre made deep and wide a pyre you might know as a heap of combustible wood that is used to to burn lay they even called him funeral pyres at times it was used for burning bodies and so forth he says with fire and wood in abundance the breath of the Lord like a stream of sulfur Kindles it so the Lord promises his retribution upon their enemies chapter 31 as we look at this chapter it's relatively short and in this chapter Isaiah repeats the warning that he gave in the previous chapter concerning the creation of an alliance with Egypt and trusting in that nation for deliverance and this time God says woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord you know you could take that one verse and you could paraphrase it for a Christian today and say what are those who go to the world for help who rely on all the things that man considers to be a strength but do not look to their God it's the same thing it's the same exact idea verse 2 and yet he is wise and brings disaster he does not call back his words but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity the Egyptians are man and not God and their horses are flesh and not spirit when the Lord stretches out his hand the helper will stumble and he who is helped will fall they will all perish together when he says the helper will stumble he's saying those of you who are called upon or wanted to call upon Egypt for help you're gonna find that even he is gonna stumble for thus the Lord said to me as a lion or a young lion growls over his prey and when a band of Shepherds is called out against him he's not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise so the Lord of hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill like birds hovering so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem he will protect and deliver it he will spare and rescue it God is saying he's able to protect his people from the Assyrian threat verse 6 turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted Oh children of Israel for in that day everyone will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold which your hands have sinfully made for you I want to stop there that's an important verse very important verse verse 7 it's basically saying here that when the day of the Lord's deliverance takes place that the people of Judah will then cast away their idols they'll get rid of them and what it's saying to you and I is when there is a deliverance in our lives from the Lord and we see this in people's lives they go through a really difficult situation or they're faced a very challenging you know event in their lives and God supernaturally just you know delivers them and what we find is that people are motivated then to turn away you know from the things that they trusted in previously and that's what this passage is saying that's what this verse is saying when God responds in our lives with an act of deliverance it ought to inspire repentance which is turning around and going the other way and this turning from the old ways should be seen chiefly in turning from those false gods and you notice that that's what he says here in verse 7 they're gonna do they're gonna cast away their idols of silver and gold well what's that a picture up for you and I it's a picture of the things that we turn to apart from God and it could be anything it literally it could be anything that we turn to and it might even be something that we turn to that in and of itself isn't all that bad [Music] what's bad is that we turn to it and not turn to the Lord you see people will sometimes say well what's wrong with you know doing such and such you know it's what's so what's so bad about that well nothing there's nothing maybe bad about that the question is have you turned to that to get answers to get help to get comfort and not to God you know I mean it could be something very simple verse eight goes on and says and the Assyrian shall fall by a sword not of man check that out that's where God says they're gonna fall but they're not gonna fall by man sword and a sword not of man shall devour him and he shall flee from the sword and his young men shall be put to forced labor so God promises that the Assyrians will be destroyed but not by human warfare it will come about as a divine act that God Himself will perform for Israel on their behalf and he ends this short chapter by saying his rock shall pass away in terror and the rock is always a picture of strength something you stand on you know that is secure but he says his rock shall pass away in terror and his officers desert the standard in panic the standard was a was usually a Oh think of it like a flag but it often wasn't a flag but it was something on a pole that symbolized that nation you know how you got pictures sometimes of the Civil War where they're carrying different flags the flag of the north and the flag of the south well you know that was similar to the standards they would carry and and and it was just it was a prideful way of just saying that we're representing in our country and notice what God says that the officers will desert the standard in panic declares the Lord whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem chapter 32 the the first five verses of this chapter prophetically describe the millennial reign of Christ because you're going to be talking here about a king that'll reign in righteousness you'll see that Isaiah writes about such a king and we know that that is Jesus and in fact we're gonna see different parts of this chapter that will speak of God's restoration of Israel which of course will take place during the Millennial Kingdom but it is pictured elsewhere throughout the history of Israel he says in verse 1 behold a king will reign in right and princes will rule injustice each will be like a hiding place from the wind a shelter from the storm like streams of water in a dry place like the shade of a great rock in a weary land those are that's what the King's righteousness and his Prince's will be like then the eyes of those who see will not be closed and of those who hear will give attention the heart of the hasty will understand and know and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly the fool will no more be called noble nor the scoundrel said to be honourable and then verses 6 through 8 you'll notice sound very much like a parable or what we would read in the parables for the fool speaks folly and his heart is busy with iniquity to practice ungodliness to utter error concerning the Lord to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied and to deprive the thirsty of drink as for the scoundrel his devices are evil he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words even when the plea of the needy is right but he who is noble plans noble things and on noble things he stands and then God gives this word to the women of Judah notice what he says to them rise up you women who are at ease in other words who right now are you feel like things are doing they're going well hear my voice you complacent daughters give ear to my speech can you imagine Isaiah saying this to the women walking through the streets of Jerusalem maybe even shouting this out to the women as they're working in the in the area doing whatever they do he says in verse 10 in a little more than a year you will shudder you complacent women for the grape harvest fall fails the rude harvest will not come tremble you women who are at ease shudder you complacent ones strip and make yourselves bare entice a cloth around your waist beat your breasts for the Pleasant fields for the fruitful vine for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briars yes for all the joyous houses in the exultant city for the palaces forsaken the populous city deserted the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever a joy of wild donkeys a pasture of flocks he's speaking now prophetically of what Israel is going to look like after the people are carried off into exile and this is at a later date but notice he says here that all this is going to happen and then verse 15 notice how it changes the tone of the scripture until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high wow what a change of tone so all these things are going to be this way until the Spirit of God is poured out upon us then what's going to happen and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field and the fruitful field is deemed a forest then justice will dwell in the wilderness and righteousness abide in the fruitful field and the effective righteousness will be peace and the result of righteousness quietness and Trust forever my people will abide in a peaceful habitation in secure dwellings and in quiet resting places and it will hail when the forest falls down and the city will be utterly laid low happier those who sow beside all waters who let the feet of the ox and the donkey Range free those last two verses are kind of challenging I actually like the the rendering in this case better in the NIV which says though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely how blessed you will be sowing your seed by every stream and letting your cattle and donkey range free I think that has a better sense of what is actually being said in that passage chapter 33 this is the last chapter we're going to deal with this evening and the Lord is gonna say some interesting things here but he begins by saying ah you devour or destroy or rather who yourself have not been destroyed you traitor whom none has betrayed when you have ceased to destroy you will be destroyed and when you have finished betraying they will betray you he's talking there most likely about the judgment that will then come upon Assyria and then in verses 2 through 4 we find an interesting prayer for Israel or maybe we should even say a prayer of Israel because it says O Lord be gracious to us we wait for you be our arm every morning our salvation in the time of trouble at the tumultuous noise people's flee when you lift yourself up nations are scattered and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers as locusts leap it is lept upon and that means when God moves and and and so forth God's people will pounce upon the spoil of their enemies the Lord is exalted for he dwells on high he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness and he will be the stability of your time's abundance of salvation wisdom and knowledge the fear of the Lord is Zions treasure and I will add that the fear of the Lord is any nations treasure in fact the fear of the Lord is any person's treasure in that a great verse verses verses 5 & 6 can we read those again this is great I just I mean this is something you should probably have highlighted in your Bible this is a good thing to read every morning maybe put it up on your mirror read it while you're getting ready in the morning the Lord is exalted for he dwells on high he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness and he will be the stability of your time's abundance of salvation that means abundance of deliverance wisdom and knowledge the fear of the Lord is Zions treasure boy what a great couple of verses the stability of your times we've recently gone through a time of instability heavenly the whole world has been shaken the whole world God's Word says that the Lord will be the stability of your season of your times whatever the times may be whatever they may be time of shaking God is our stability time of difficulty he is our peace and comfort time of stress he's our rest now verses 7 8 and 9 speak of a time when Hezekiah sent a peace envoy to Sennacherib the king of Assyria and Hezekiah was told to at the time to pay a fine of silver and gold but ultimately it didn't make any difference because the Assyrians ended up marching on Judah anyway and they pretty much you know you got understand the Assyrians actually devastated most of Judah they couldn't get into Jerusalem they couldn't get into the capital city but they decimated pretty much the rest of the country so you know Hezekiah you know was told to pay silver and gold to the king of Assyria but it didn't help verse 7 says behold their heroes crying the streets the envoys of peace weep bitterly why because it didn't work it didn't take they went as on boys of peace to the assyrians but the Assyrians didn't care they attacked anyway the highways lie waste the traveler ceases boy do we know what that's all about the highways lying and waste and the traveller ceases anybody who works for the airline industry knows what that's all about covenants are broken cities are despised there's no regard for man the land mourns and languishes Lebanon known for its incredibly big trees is confounded and withers away Cherone which is a fruitful area lush he says is like a desert and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves so he's there being told here that the Syrian invasion and all the accompanying destruction would have an effect not only on Judah but on even the surrounding areas as well leaving them desolate but here in verses 10 through 12 I want you to notice that God promises to act on behalf of his people he says now I will arise says the Lord now I will lift up or excuse me lift myself up now I will be exalted you can see if chaff and you give birth to stubble your breath is a fire that will consume you and the peoples will be as if burn to lime like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire and their reference to the burning of lime and the burning of thorns speaks of the fiery judgment of the Lord and in fact it being very complete and God promises here an overwhelming judgment to be finally visited upon Assyria and now he calls upon his people to take note of these things he says here you who are far off what I have done and you who are near acknowledged my might now afar off and near doesn't refer to miles gee you know geographically it's talking about those who are far away from the Lord relationally so he says even those of you who know that you've fallen away from God listen anyway here and those of you who are near who are holding clothes and waiting on the Lord acknowledge my strength he says the sinners in Zion are afraid trembling has seized the godless who among us can dwell with the consuming fire who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings he who walks righteously and speaks up rightly who despises the gain of oppressions who shakes his hands lest they hold a bribe who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil he will dwell on the heights his place of defence will be the fortresses of rocks his bread will be given him his water will be sure so you see how these verses are saying that the the the sinner is asking the question who can stand with all this stuff going on and God answers he says I'll tell you who can stand the one who's devoted to me the one who follows my word he'll be taken care of your eyes verse seventeen will behold the King in his beauty they will see a land that stretches afar your heart will muse on the terror where is he who counted where is he who weighed the tribute where's he who counted the towers in other words God is promising here that the devastation of the foreign armies and the misery of counting out the tribute paid to those foreign armies is going to be a thing of the past for the people of God who trust the people who don't trust they have to deal with the constant issues of well we got to pay the king of Assyria so ok let's get the money together because he he's gonna want his silver and gold and God is saying for those who trust they're gonna ask the question where is he who counted out the tribute again we don't have to deal with that because we've put our trust in God you know verse 19 you will see no more the insolent people the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand these godly people are not gonna see the enemy any longer behold Zion the city of our appointed feasts your eyes will see Jerusalem an untroubled habitation that hasn't come about yet has it Jerusalem is not yet an untroubled habitation but one day it will be an immovable tent whose stakes will never be plucked up nor get that it stakes will never be plucked up do you know what it happens every time some president decides he's going to get peace in Israel what do they do well we need to give more land away right isn't that what they do land for peace and yeah the Israelis stop and they say no we're not gonna give up land and they're absolutely right it's stupid it's it doesn't work anyway but the point is God says there's coming a time when when their stakes will never be plucked up in other words nobody's going to infringe on what God has given them nor will any of its cords be broken but there the Lord in Majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams where no galley with oars can go no majestic ship can pass for the Lord is our judge the Lord is our lawgiver the Lord is our king he will save us he will deliver us verse 23 is a challenging verse Bible scholars don't know if it refers to Judah or Assyria most think Assyria but it's interesting because then in the latter part of verse 23 it seems to change you'll see as I go through here your cords hang loose they cannot hold the mast firm in its place or keep the sail spread out then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided even the lame will take the prey and no inhabitant will say I am sick the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity and so God is again prophesying about a time and again this speaks of the Millennial Kingdom when the Lord shall rule and reign from Jerusalem and the inhabitants will be greatly blessed thereof so that's where we're gonna stop for tonight and we will pick it up in chapter 34 next time so let's pray you

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