Day 18- Isaiah 10-56

An interesting one today. It's Isaiah, so a Lot of bad news because of the constant evil and rebellion of the Israelites, with some blessings sprinkled in. And more prophesies directly about Jesus than one would remember. Traditionally, Isaiah was sawed in half by the evil son of King Hezekiah who was a genuinely decent king. God told him he was going to die early, but unfortunately Hezekiah humbled himself and prayed and begged God to let him live because it is implied that he has no sons to take the throne after he died, and it was honestly the worst thing that could have happened. God said he could live 15 more years. And sons were born to Hezekiah. And nothing but immense grief resulted. One of his sons, Manasseh, became an absolutely evil and disgraceful idolator running his kingdom into the ground for an abusive 45 years, and again, as tradition would have it, he murdered his father's friend and counsellor, Isaiah. Some really beautiful verses that stuck out to me today. 17:7,8-And in that day will men look to their Maker, and their eyes shall regard the Holy One of Israel. And they will not look at the idolatrous altars, the work of their hands, neither will they have respect for what their fingers have made... Screw the nonsense climate change depopulation lie. 24:1-6-Behold the Lord will make the land and the earth empty and make it waste and turn it upside down and scatter abroad its inhabitants. And it shall be-as what happens with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; ... The land and the earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly pillaged; for the Lord has said this. The land and the earth mourn and wither, the world languishes and withers, the high ones of the people languish, The land and the earth also are defiled by their inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, disregarded the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse devours the land and the earth, and they who dwell in it suffer the punishment of their guilt. Therefore the inhabitants of the land and earth are scorched and parched under the curse of God's wrath, and few people are left. 25;8,9-He will swallow up death in victory; He will abolish death forever. And the Lord will wipe away tears from all faces; and the reproach of His people He will take away from off all the earth; for the Lord has spoken it. 26:9-My soul yearns for You O Lord in the night, yes, my spirit within me seeks You earnestly; for only when Your judgments are in the earth will the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.