Isaiah 5:18-24

 

Isaiah 5:18-24

¹⁸ Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit,
and wickedness as with cart ropes,

¹⁹ to those who say, “Let God hurry; let him hasten his work so we may see it. The plan of the Holy One of Israel—let it approach, let it come into view, so we may know it.”

²⁰ Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

²² Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,

²³ who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.

²⁴ Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay
and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.