Isaiah 5:18

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Summary

Isaiah 5:18

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Draw

Bible References

Draw

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we have made a pact.

The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by,

For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception.”

And the man Micah had a

shrine and he made an ephod and

household idols and consecrated one of his sons, that he might become his priest.

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your advice. What shall we do?”

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;
There is no one who does good.

For it flatters him in his own eyes
Concerning the discovery of his iniquity and the hatred of it.

They crush Your people, O Lord,
And afflict Your heritage.

The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests rule on their own authority;
And My people love it so!
But what will you do at the end of it?

“Why then has this people, Jerusalem,

Turned away in continual apostasy?

They hold fast to deceit,
They refuse to return.

For the land is full of adulterers;
For the land mourns because of the curse.
The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course also is evil
And their might is not right.

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

Then all the men who were aware that their wives were burning sacrifices to other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large assembly, including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, responded to Jeremiah, saying,

It is definitely because they have misled My people by saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash;

“It will come about at that time
That I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
And I will punish the men
Who are

stagnant in spirit,

Who say in their hearts,
‘The Lord will not do good or evil!’

They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.