Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"I will make justice the measuring line"
Text: Isaiah 28:17
JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
Justice should have been the main concern for the kingdom of Judah, but it was not. Righteousness should also have been the most natural feature of the nation, but again it was absent. In God’s new plan for His kingdom, Justice and Righteousness would be the hallmark.
“Also I will make justice the measuring line,
And righteousness the plummet;
The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
And the waters will overflow the hiding place.
Your covenant with death will be annulled,
And your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
Then you will be trampled down by it.”
Isaiah 28:17-18
1. A measuring line.
a) This was used by a surveyor.
b) He uses it to measure the size of a city.
c) The measuring line was used to describe how God would set up
the new city of Zion.
d) That measuring line was “Justice!”
2. The plummet.
a) This was part of the measuring instrument.
b) The plummet was used to make sure that the measurement is straight and accurate.
c) The plummet used was called “righteousness”.
d) The new city lines would be marked by “Justice” and “Righteousness”.
e) The new Zion would be glorious in its holiness.
3. The “hail” and the “waters”.
a) These would be the means of chastisement.
b) Both would become like “plagues” used by the LORD
to destroy the wicked and the ungodly.
c) The “refuge of lies” would be swept away.
4. The so-called “covenant” with death.
a) There was no such covenant:
i) With Death.
ii) With Sheol.
b) The lie would be exposed completely.
c) The scourge (“plague”) that God would send would destroy the perpetrators.
d) The new Kingdom of Zion would have nothing to do with
lies and false covenants.
e) The only true Covenant is what God had given.