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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Isaiah 14:28-32; ; Isaiah 16:1-14
After the judgment against Babylon and Assyria comes that of the nations surrounding Israel. Like defendants who follow one another at the bar of a court, these historic enemies of the Jewish people are going to hear in turn a solemn "burden". Philistia after her defeat by Uzziah, the father of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 26:6), had no cause to rejoice at the death of the latter (vv. 28, 29 JND translation). For Hezekiah his son was going to strike the Philistines also (2 Kings 18:8).
Moab is called "very proud" (Isaiah 16:6). The characteristic of this people was pride about which the LORD declares: "Pride and arrogancy do I hate", and announces: "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" (Proverbs 8:13; Proverbs 16:18). We are present at the ruin of Moab. Its desolation is indescribable. Its cries of horror and despair fill Isaiah 15:1-9; Isaiah 16:1-14.
Vv. 3, 4 of ch. 16 teach us that the faithful ones, fleeing from the persecution of the Antichrist in Judah, will find refuge in the territory of Moab. Finally, after the judgments have been carried out, there will be One who will reign with mercy, truth, uprightness and justice (Isaiah 16:5). Psalms 72:1-4 announces that favoured time when Christ, the true Solomon, will judge the people with justice and uprightness.
