Isaiah 54 - 56 • "My steadfast love shall not depart from you."

let's get into some isaiah tonight wonderful prophecies we're in the 54th chapter of isaiah as we continue our study through this wonderful prophetic book as we get into these chapters i want to remind you that the lord has been speaking prophetically of a time in israel's future when there when they will be taken off into exile into the babylonian kingdom god is already speaking to them about that after that time and when he will regather them to the nation of israel once again to their own homeland but we've also been making the point throughout the course of these chapters that while these prophecies have to do with the regathering of israel in the short term they also have a long term fulfillment and that is with the millennial kingdom and so the regathering of israel after the babylonian empire is a foreshadowing of a time that is still yet to come when christ returns to the earth establishes his kingdom in israel in jerusalem on mount zion and rules and reigns there for a period of 1 000 years i know it sounds crazy but that's what the bible tells us is going to happen and there is going to be a final regathering during that time and a final work of of blessing and we'll talk more about this as we kind of get in to these verses but the reason that we know that uh the majority of these prophecies extend into the millennial kingdom is because they speak of a blessing on israel and a scale of blessing that far exceeds anything we've seen up to this point god has blessed israel in many ways throughout the course of human history but the kind of blessings that israel will experience during the millennial kingdom will far out seed them all and and and what we're reading in these verses are blessings that go beyond anything we've seen and so we know that they are yet future so as we get into we're gonna try to get through three chapters tonight we'll see how it goes so we better pray heavenly father we open our hearts to the ministry of your word this evening we pray for your holy spirit to lead us and guide us and speak to us you are the teacher you are the counselor lord your your children come before you seeking the wisdom of your counsel seeking to know you better to know how you work among your people we pray that you would give us that kind of insight that you would nourish us tonight from our study of the scriptures and fill us with peace we ask it in the name of jesus christ our savior amen amen isaiah chapter 54 begins this way sing o barren one who did not bear break forth into singing and cry aloud you who have been in labor for the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married says the lord let me stop you there for just a moment and explain what god is saying because in in middle eastern thought and that's you have to be keyed into middle eastern thought to make sense of the this this first uh verse here it was considered a very disgraceful thing for a woman to be barren if a woman was married and she was not having children she was considered to be under a curse the curse of god and there must have been something going on in her past or something that was causing her to be unable to bear children and it's very unfortunate that that was the position they took but but god knew it and he is now likening the the nation of israel as a whole to the kind of uh image of that israel would have of a barren woman and he's essentially likening that to the people and it's important for you to know something it was god's intention by calling forth the nation of israel to make them a fruitful nation not just for themselves but for all the kingdoms of the world god wanted israel to bless the world he wanted them to bear fruit for the world he wanted them to speak to the world and bring life through the word of god unfortunately that never happened instead of bearing fruit for the world israel became legalistic and judgmental of anyone outside of their own realm and and that became the predominant attitude by the time jesus arrived on the scene and they were so legalistic and so critical of of all people that jesus was constantly tangling with the religious leaders and other jews but you have to understand that one day and that's again during the millennial kingdom it has really not happened yet but one day god is going to touch israel in such a way that it is going to fulfill his original plan for israel as a nation and that is to be a mother to the nations he he intended it to happen in the first place it didn't and so when during the millennial kingdom israel will be that mother to the nations and that's why the lord is speaking now to her prophetically and saying you can now sing o'barren woman you've been barren you have not given birth as i intended you spiritually to give birth to life in the world and among the nations but now sing because the children of the desolate one meaning israel are going to be more than the children of the woman who was married and had given birth to children he goes on now in verse 2 to say because of this now enlarge the place of your tent and and let the curtains of your habitation be stretched out do not hold back lengthen your cords he says and and strengthen uh your stakes and you know the people in in that culture many of the people who lived out and shepherded their flocks lived in tents so they could follow their flocks wherever they needed to take them and i don't know if you knew this but the women often lived in tents that were separate from the men and that helps us to understand how isaiah is speaking here and describing jerusalem as a barren wife who lived alone in her own tent look what it go look what he goes on to say in verse three he says it he says for you will spread abroad to the right and to the left and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities so he announces here that they need to enlarge themselves to take in all the people that will come and he says in verse 4 fear not for you will not be ashamed be not confounded for you will not be disgraced those two words ashamed and disgraced exactly describe a barren woman in israel but he says you'll no longer be ashamed you'll no longer be disgraced he goes on to say for you will forget the shame of your youth and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more for your maker is your husband the lord of hosts is his name and the holy one of israel is your redeemer the god of the whole earth he is called for the lord has called you like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit like a wife of youth when she is cast off says your god now this is interesting language because god speaks to the nation of israel and he calls her back and says i call you back to be my wife but i'm speaking to you as a wife deserted and grieved now i don't know if you remember back in isaiah chapter 50 but god actually said at that time that he never gave israel a certificate of divorce do you remember he asked him the question he said show me the certificate of divorce you can't do it because i never actually gave it to you and so the picture here is rather of a wife who's been deserted because of their sin right but now god says i am redeeming you i'm bringing you back as my wife and then the picture is really a very beautiful one when you stop and think about it the the fact that that god is restoring israel to that place that very special place not only is it beautiful for the nation of israel but i happen to know many women who have taken hold of these very passages for themselves because of a wife who or a husband rather who rejected them or left them behind even in death and it's an incredible comfort to hear the lord of the universe speak tenderly to a woman and say your maker is your husband your maker is your husband i've talked to many women who have grieved over the loss of a marriage or the loss of a husband and death or whatever grieved over that and wondered how in the world they were ever going to make it and the lord spoke to them through this very passage said i am your husband i'm going to take care of you i'm going to see you through don't you worry for a minute the lord continues on speaking to israel in verse 7 saying for a brief moment i deserted you but with great compassion i will gather you in overflowing anger for a moment i hid my face from you but with everlasting love i will have compassion on you says the lord your redeemer and of course that brief moment that the lord is speaking of there most likely refers to the 70-year exile of israel to the babylonian empire but the lord says when i bring you back ultimately there will be a a a never-ending work of compassion so god says in verse 9 this is like the days of noah to me as i swore that the waters of noah should no more go over the earth so i have sworn that i will not be angry with you and will not rebuke you for the mountains may depart and the hills may be removed and we know that they will actually at some point when the lord returns but he says my steadfast love shall not depart from you and my covenant of peace shall not be removed says the lord who has compassion on you so the lord says just as i swore in the days of noah and i said no never again will the waters cover the whole earth and wipe out life upon the earth so also i've sworn to you now that i will pour out my compassion upon you and the lord says i'm going to keep my promise so he goes on to say in verse 11 oh afflicted one storm tossed and not comforted behold i will set your stones in antimony an antimony is a silvery white metal he says and lay your foundations with sapphires i will make your pinnacles of agate your gates of carbuncles and all your wall of precious stones we we read about this in other passages prophetic passages in the bible about how jerusalem will be adorned on that day and this is kind of a vision of the renewed city filled with peace and righteousness and so forth and he says in verse 13 all your children shall be taught by the lord and great shall be the peace of your children you know why because the prince of peace will be reigning on that day once again i'm i'm you know i'm thankful that politicians try to bring peace into the middle east i'm thankful when they attempt to do that this latest work by our president of the the abraham accords it's it's a good thing there's nothing you know i always appreciate you know but it's never going to be fully realized until the prince of peace rules and reigns on the throne of zion and that is jesus and that's why the lord says here great shall be the peace of your children verse 14 in righteousness you shall be established you shall be far from oppression for you shall not fear and from terror boy has israel had to deal with terror over the years i mean they still do but he says on that day you'll be far from it he says for it shall not come near you no terror in the land if he says if anyone stirs up strife it's not from me whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you because you are in the land and you are my special people but the lord says it's not going to be my doing verse 16 behold i have created the smith who blows the fire of coals that's the blacksmith and produces a weapon for its purpose i have also created the ravager to destroy but now he says for you no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment and then so you have to ask yourself the question is that something that the lord spoke only to israel that that no weapon forged against you shall shall succeed and and and so forth and so on look what the lord ends this chapter with by saying he says this is the heritage of the servants of the lord and we are the servants of the lord today as the church we are not israel we never will be israel but we are the servants of the lord we are the bride of christ which is separate by the way from israel but we are the servants of the lord and god says this is the heritage of the servants of the lord and their vindication from me declares yahweh declares the lord chapter 55 i love chapter 55 that's so beautiful because in it god calls people to come and partake of the delicacies and he kind of illustrates this with like a banquet sort of a arrangement he says in verse 1 come everyone who thirsts come to the waters and he who has no money come buy and eat come buy wine and milk without money and without price well that sounds like a good deal in fact he goes on to ask the question why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which does not satisfy all right stop there first of all god invites people to come and he says come and buy but he says it won't cost you anything in other words it's free so you come to the lord's table and you eat for free the bread of life the water of life it is yours and it will satisfy but then god asks the question in verse two why do you spend your money in other words what you have your resources your effort your time your energy why do you spend your life on things that aren't going to satisfy oh man i tell you it's just well you know actually we know the answer to this question we he he asks essentially as a rhetorical question but we know the answer we know that we were created to worship god we were created to have a relationship with god here's the problem though we're born separated from god we're born cut off and we don't have that relationship when we are first born as children as we grow into adults we don't have it we have to gain it by repentance and putting our faith in in god through jesus christ but until we come to that place of repentance there's this aching vacuum inside of us that's just longing to be filled with purpose and satisfaction we're looking for purpose and some people try to find it in political reform and some people try to find it in their job career some people try to find it in money making and some try to just seek pleasure but they're all trying to do the same thing and that is fill that that empty vacuum in their heart and there's all kinds of things that we'll try to do and if we can't fulfill it we'll try to just drown it out there's this voice inside of us this just knows that we're empty we don't usually admit it but we know that we're empty and so we turn to alcohol and drugs and or you know any number of things that people can turn to to try to silence that cry of the heart that says i'm empty it's it's empty and you know we see so many testimonies from people who come to christ after looking for satisfaction and meaning in life all over the place and people who have actually tried to fill that void with money things cars houses wives husbands whatever the situation may call for or whatever they seem to want to or or need to have at the moment to try to fill that void and what do they say when they finally come to christ they'll say i did this i did this i did this i did this and i was still empty there was an emptiness in my life none of those things could fill my heart none of them and i came to the end of myself and i surrendered my life to jesus christ and he came and filled me in a way that i didn't even know was possible but it was what i'd been looking for all my life and this is the answer to the question why do you spend your money on that which is not bread and labor for that which does not satisfy it's because you have an ache inside your heart because you were created to worship know and love god but when we're not doing it we're cut off from god and even though we can't even articulate what's wrong we re we react to it i i believe that a lot of depression in life is a byproduct of that sense of just being at odds with god and knowing that i'm at odds with him knowing that i don't have peace there's no peace there's no peace in my heart there's no peace with things there's no peace with people relationships go up in flames because i'm not satisfied in my heart it's one of the reasons why i'm always delighted to do a wedding when i'm doing it with two people who know the lord they have something that is going to be the best leg up for them having a good marriage and that is know jesus christ because when they're satisfied in him they're not going to put so much pressure to make the other person satisfy them but you know what happens even in marriages of believers i've i've mentioned and talked to a lot of women and men who've gone through marriage and sought even though they knew better sought to be satisfied by their spouse in a way that only god can satisfy and it's an exercise in futility and it'll ruin your spouse and it'll cause depression and the lord will often bring such people up short after a period of time say what are you doing looking for in in that person what only i can give what are you doing putting such pressure on that human being that limited human being with whom you live i gave them to you as a gift and you sought to make them a god in your life you turned it into an idol only i can produce the satisfaction that you need only me and then we have to go through that period of brokenness and repentance lord i'm sorry i sought from this person what they could not give we're in the middle of verse 2. look what god says now after asking the question he says listen diligently to me and he what is good and delight yourself in rich food incline your ear and come to me hear that your soul may live and i will make with you an everlasting covenant my steadfast sure love for david in other words that same love that i poured out on david and that davidic covenant you know the davidic covenant is so beautiful you remember how that goes basically right remember david decided he was going to build a house for god and he so he calls the prophet into his palace and he says i have an idea i'm going to build a house for god and the prophet goes do whatever you seal feel the lord wants you to do and the prophet leaves and the lord speaks to him as soon as he gets out the door and he says go back i have a message for david so he goes back and he goes um hold the phone god has a message for you thank you you want to build me a house that's very gracious of you but here's what's going to happen i'm going to build you a house and you will not cease to have one of your sons on the throne and your throne will be an everlasting kingdom and of course the fulfillment of that is jesus christ and david was so blown away his prayer after he was told that by the prophet nathan is so beautiful he's when he comes to the lord and says lord who am i who am i that you would say something like that to me but look what god is saying to israel as he speaks to them here at the end of verse 3. my covenant with you he says my steadfast covenant with you will be just like that certain or sure love your bible may say mercy that i showed to david it'll be just like that speaking of david god says behold verse 4 i made him a witness to the peoples a leader and a commander for the peoples and god's about to tell his people israel is going to do the same for them behold he says you shall call a nation that you do not know and a nation that did not know you shall run to you because of the lord your god and of the holy one of israel for he has glorified you do you remember when david used to pray and he'd say lord people come to me cowering on their knees kings come to me and bow down before me because of you david was blown away but it was something god did because god made david's kingdom glorious now he promises israel it's going to be the same for you i'm going to bring such glory into this nation that kings and nations are going to come to you verse 6. great verse seek the lord while he may be found call upon him while he is near let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts let him return to the lord that he may have compassion on him and to our god for he will abundantly pardon you know it's interesting in these two verses the lord gives a time reference not necessarily a reference but a limitation maybe is a better way to say it he says he doesn't just say seek the lord he says seek the lord while which is a time word he may be found do you understand that there's a limitation there seek the lord while he may be found the bible also talks about this as today today when you hear his voice do not harden your heart as you did in the rebellion god says right today when you hear his voice respond because today is the day of salvation seek the lord while he may be found it's one of the reasons that you and i are passionate about sharing christ with people because today is the day of salvation this is the day when he may be found there's coming a day when the door will close verse eight and i love verses eight and 9 i quote it many many times for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways declares the lord for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts you know the lord is speaking here of the incredible compassion and pardon that he will lay upon israel and it's in that context that he shares these statements in verses 8 and 9 but let me just tell you this is one of those passages you can take out of context because you know what god's thoughts are always not our thoughts it doesn't matter what the context is god's ways are never our ways and it doesn't matter what the context is in fact the heavens are always going to be higher than the earth and in so the god's way is higher than ours and and the reason these two verses are so important and i i have to go back and read them you know i i guys i i get i get dozens of bible questions a week dozens do you know that i can't answer them all not because i'm physically unable i try to answer all of them but i can't answer some of them because i don't know the i don't know how to answer it people ask me questions that there's no way i could possibly know and i have to write them and have to say i don't know i don't know the answer to that question first of all the bible doesn't reveal it or i might even have to say well there's no way that we can know the answer to that question because our brains just aren't big enough god hasn't allowed us the capability and i usually will quote these verses i also quote these verses when people write me letters or call me or talk to me and they compare their life and their limitations to god and it happens in an alarming sort of a way and it's a huge mistake that we make to judge the lord by comparing him with us it's it's just it's a huge huge mistake because the way god thinks the way god acts is entirely foreign to you and i and the only way we know it at all is because he's revealed some of it in the word of god otherwise we would be absolutely totally in the dark as far as what is god like we'd say i don't know there'd be plenty of people giving an opinion of course in the comment section under that question as there always is but but nobody would know for sure thankfully he has revealed much of his character and his being and even his thought processes to us in the word but his ways and his thoughts are still so much higher than ours that they cannot be known or found out those are such great verses to hang on to verse 10 says for as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth making it bring forth and sprout giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth it shall not return to me empty but it shall accomplish that which i purpose and shall succeed in the thing for which i sent it i love the strength of these verses because god is basically reminding us that everything he has ever said to us prophetically will be accomplished you can bet your life on it god says whatever i send forth my word to accomplish it will fulfill its purpose it will succeed in the thing for which i sent it god's word will not fail isn't that a comforting thought to you guys god's word will never fail heaven and earth will pass away but what does god say my words will never pass away heaven and earth heaven and earth are going to pass away but the word of god will not verse 12 for you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands oh i can't wait to see that happen instead of the thorn which had just haunted israel because of their sin shall come up the cyprus instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle and it shall make a name for the lord an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off chapter 56 this is not a terribly long chapter thus says yahweh the lord keep justice and do righteousness for soon my salvation will come and my righteousness be revealed blessed is the man who does this and the son of man who holds it fast who keeps the sabbath not profaning it and keeps his hand from doing every or any evil so the lord is speaking here saying that there is a blessed condition upon the man who walks after the lord he says my righteousness has been revealed how has god revealed his righteousness well he's revealed it in the person of jesus christ he is our righteousness okay jesus is our righteousness paul talks about this romans chapter 3 he says now a righteousness has been revealed that is not through the law it is by faith by faith god extends righteousness to people and so god is saying here blessed is the man who holds fast to that and he goes on to talk about who keeps the sabbath now of course the sabbath day was an important day for israel and the sabbath is saturday you know i was watching a movie an old it was kind of a western at least it was it was set in the west probably in the 1800s and this family was going to church and they had this hired worker on their property that didn't go to church with them on sunday just didn't want to go and one of the little kids on the way home in the buck board asked her mom or actually was her sister she said i wonder if god holds a grudge against so and so because he doesn't go to church on the sabbath and of course you know this not the sabbath the sunday is not the sabbath over the years people began to apply or speak of sunday as the sabbath but it never was the sabbath in the bible sunday was the lord's day it was called that because it was the day they might and they didn't consider it a day that they set apart as better than any other day necessarily it was called the lord's day because that was the day jesus emerged from the tomb that was the day of the resurrection so so the lord's day has always been sunday the sabbath has always been saturday in in israel and under the law the sabbath was all about resting god said to the nation of israel one day a week on the sabbath do no regular work and rest rest rest and that's really all he told them he said do no regular work rest that's all they were really told to do rest on the sabbath well we learned from the new testament in the book of hebrews which by the way we're going to be going through before too terribly long we learn in the book of hebrews that jesus is the fulfillment of our sabbath rest he fulfilled it by doing his work on the cross and now we rest in his finished work that is the revelation of righteousness that god has made available to us in the bible so now as you and i put our faith in jesus and rest in his finished work and cease from our own labors of trying to be righteous in god's sight by doing being good christians and living a good life and i got to keep the law and i got to go i got i got i got a i got i got no no no no when we rest say i can't do this i cannot be righteous i'm going to rest solely in the work of jesus christ on the cross we are keeping the sabbath we keep the sabbath because christ is the fulfillment through his death on the cross that's what jesus said i've not come to abolish the law i've come to fulfill it jesus is our sabbath rest we keep the sabbath not just on one day seven days a week seven days a week all right so verse three goes on he says oh and this is this is beautiful i want you to take note of who he refers to here he says let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the lord say the lord will surely separate me from his people and let not the eunuch say behold i am a dry tree now i want you to take note of very specifically who he's speaking of in these verses he speaks of what the foreigner and the eunuch what's significant about the foreigner and the eunuch they were both essentially forbidden from coming into the worship of israel the foreigner was not welcome to come do you know even when a foreigner and i'm talking about a gentile here even when a gentile decided or converted if you will to judaism he still couldn't go into the temple still couldn't go in the only thing he could do the closest he could get was the outer courts of the temple that's one of the reasons jesus chased all the animals and those people buying and selling out of the outer courts that was the only place the gentiles could go they were called god-fearers god-fearing gentiles they couldn't go into the temple they weren't allowed and eunuchs do you remember in the old testament god said that if any man had been emasculated he could not come into the worship of israel here's what's interesting god now speaks here in isaiah directly of the foreigner and the eunuch because these people were cut off and separate from the worship of israel and he says first of all concerning the foreigner let him not say the lord will surely separate me from his people because that's the way the foreigners were they were separated from his people you can't go in the temple you can only go right here you're separated but the foreigner he says now now concerning this new relationship he says let him not say i am not part of god's people any longer and then he goes on to say and let not the eunuch say behold i am a dry tree and because of my physical situation i can no longer enter into worship of yahweh let him not say that even though the law forbade these people from coming into the worship of israel here is god throwing open the doors speaking to these people directly and inviting them in can you imagine it's funny that the jews never really got this by the time jesus came along they still hadn't gotten this they still had not put two and two together with the prophecies of isaiah you know there's something else that the eunuch represents i think the eunuch obviously is is a representation of people with a limitation you know he's limited there's things he can't do he can't have a family he cannot be fruitful in his life in that way it's kind of like the lord is saying you know when he says concerning the eunuch let him not say behold i'm a dry tree the lord is speaking here to anyone i think who has some kind of a limitation in their life and he's saying let not the one with limitations so focus on those limitations as to say that those things define me and because of this i can't but the lord is saying with me nothing is impossible listen to what the lord goes on to say verse 4 thus says the lord to the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant i will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters i will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off wow and the foreigners who join themselves to the lord to minister to him to love the name of the lord and to be his servants everyone who keeps the sabbath and does not profane it holds fast my covenant these i will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar for my house should be called a house of prayer for all peoples that amazing look what god is saying to them he says i'm going to bring them in i'm going to bring them to my holy mountain in the old under the old covenant they couldn't even go into the temple but in that day and we're talking the millennial kingdom god says i will bring the foreigners onto my holy mountain into my very presence to the very throne of my presence and they will enjoy the beauty of intimacy like any other son or daughter that's just amazing verse 8 says the lord god who gathers the outcasts of israel declares i will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered and you know this is wonderful this is one of many passages in the old testament where god sought to expand israel's understanding of the fact that he he loved the people of all nations and and there would be a gathering time for those nations and israel just didn't get it it was a message they didn't receive and there was even a significant pushback remember in the early days of the gospel in acts remember what happened when philip started going up to samaria and telling the samaritans about jesus there were jews saying he can't do that samaritans can't be saved and then they came back and started telling them stories about all the things that god was doing and then peter gets called to the house of cornelius goes into his house oh lord have mercy he entered the house of a gentile and he shared the gospel and they got saved and the holy spirit fell upon them in power and what happened when they came back to tell people you can't do that peter has to tell the story well let me tell you what happened and the holy spirit came upon them just the way he came upon us and they all talked about it for a while and then they finally said who what a thunk even gentiles can be saved god had been telling him this for hundreds of years right here verse 8 the lord god who gathers the outcasts of israel declares i will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered wow that must have been shocking if somebody actually did read it and believe it now verse 9 to the end of the chapter reverts back to addressing israel again as as and her rebellious leaders and this is a little bit of a downer finishing out the chapter but it's important stuff to look at god says all the beasts of the field come to devour all you beasts in the forest and he's not talking about animals here he's using beasts as a picture for his leaders the leaders in the israel and he's talking about animals that just you know wild animals we don't see wild animals like they they did back in that day but wild animals would go in packs and they would just forage and they would just you know they'd eat up all the pasture land or something that maybe somebody was using for their sheep or goats or whatever and he's now referring to the leaders of israel like those wild pack animals that just devour okay and he says in verse 10 his watchmen are blind they're all without knowledge they are all silent dogs they cannot bark you ever i don't know if you've ever had a dog that can't bark uh kind of useless in some respects at least as a watchdog i mean unless you've trained him to ring a bell when there's danger so you know something like that but you know dogs as much as a barking dog kind of bugs me frankly it it can be really useful for letting you know that something might be a miss dogs have been used as security animals for many many years look what god says concerning the watchmen of israel what is a watchman it's someone who's watching for danger he says not only are they blind not only are they without knowledge but they can't bark they can't say anything there's one bible version that says they're dumb dogs and it doesn't mean dumb in the sense of brains it just means they can't speak instead what do they want to do they're just dreaming lying around loving sleep and slumber and stuff like that so continuing this imagery of these leaders as dogs the lord says the dogs have a mighty appetite they never have enough but they are shepherds who have no understanding they have all turned to their own way each to his own gain one and all come they say let me get some wine let us fill ourselves with strong drink and tomorrow will be like this day great beyond measure so you can see that the lord kind of ends the chapter there with not a whole lot good to say for the leaders of israel they're not sitting on the top of the wall watching for the the coming of danger or the coming of the lord you

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