Episode 180: God will discover their secret parts

Isaiah 1-5

God threatens his people

1 ¹ This is the vision of Isaiah that he saw while Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah. ² Listen, heavens and earth, to what God says:

My children rebelled against me. ⁴ You are a sinful nation, the seed of evildoers. ⁷ Your country is desolate, your cities are burned, and your land has been devoured by strangers. ⁹ If I hadn't left a few faithful people in Judah, I'd have destroyed it like it was Sodom and Gomorrah. ¹⁰ So listen to me, you rulers of Sodom and Gomorrah. ¹¹ Why are you sacrificing animals to me? I'm sick of your burnt offerings. I don't enjoy the blood of bullocks, lambs, or goats. ¹³ Don't bring me any more sacrifices. ¹⁵ When you pray, I won't hear you. ¹⁶ So stop doing evil things. ¹⁷ Free the oppressed and help widows. ¹⁸ Let's reason together. ¹⁹ If you obey me, you'll have something to eat. ²⁰ But if you refuse and rebel against me, you'll be killed with a sword. ²¹ How did a faithful city become a harlot? ²⁴ I will take revenge on my enemies. ²⁸ I'll destroy the sinners and those who forsake me.

The last days

2 ¹ The word of Isaiah concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

² In the last days, God's house will be on the earth's highest mountain. ³ Many people will go there. ⁴ They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks. And there will be no more wars. ¹⁸ The idols will be abolished. ¹⁹ People will hide from God in holes in the rocks, when he shakes the earth terribly. ²⁰ In that day, a man will throw his idols to the moles and bats.

They will be ruled by children

3 ¹ God will take away bread and water from Jerusalem and Judah. ⁴ He'll make children their rulers. ⁵ And they'll be oppressed by their neighbors. ⁸ Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah has fallen, because of what their people said and did against God.

The sin of Sodom

⁹ They declare their sin as Sodom did, they don't hide it. Woe to them. They deserve the evil they will receive. ¹⁰ But tell the righteous that everything will be okay with them.

Women will rule over them

¹² God's people will be oppressed by children, and women will rule over them.

God will discover their secret parts

¹⁶ Because the women are haughty and walk with their necks stretched out, flirting with their eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, and making a tingling with their feet, ¹⁷ God will smite them with a scab on the crown of their heads. And he will discover their secret parts. ¹⁸ He’ll take away the tinkling ornaments on their feet, their headbands, and crescent necklaces, ¹⁹ earrings, bracelets, and veils, ²⁰ bonnets, leg ornaments, perfumes, and charms, ²¹ finger rings, and nose rings, ²² festive clothes, mantles, and purses, ²³ mirrors, fine linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.

There will be stink

²⁴ And instead of sweet smell, there will be stink. Instead of nice hair, baldness. ²⁵ And the men will die in war.

Seven women will take hold of one man

4 ¹ In that day, seven women will take hold of one man, and say,

We'll provide for our own needs if you'll just marry us to take away our disgrace.

⁴ When God has finished washing away the filth of Jerusalem's women, and purging it's blood with the spirit of burning, ⁵ he'll create a cloud of smoke by day and a fire at night over every house on mount Zion.

A vineyard song

5 ¹ Now I'll sing a song about a vineyard.

My beloved has a vineyard on a hill.

² He planted a vine, built a tower, and made a winepress.

He thought it'd produce grapes, but it had wild grapes instead.

³ So tell me, people of Jerusalem, why did it produce only wild grapes?

⁵ Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do about it.

⁶ I won't prune it, and I'll let the weeds grow. And I won't command the clouds to rain on it.

⁷ For the vineyard is Israel and Judah is the vine.

¹⁰ Ten acres of the vineyard will yield one bath, and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.

Hell has opened her big mouth

¹¹ Woe to them who drink too much. ¹² They play music and drink wine, but don't pay any attention to God ¹⁴ Therefore, hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth infinitely wide. He who rejoices, will fall into it.

²⁰ Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil. ²² Woe to them that drink alcohol. ²⁵ When God gets angry, he'll smite people, make the hills tremble, and spread torn carcasses in the streets. ²⁶ And he will hiss to them from the end of the earth.