Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"They shall be as stubble"
Text: Isaiah 47:14
THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCES
The Babylonians had committed many atrocities. They were judged by the LORD.
They would not be able to escape from divine justice.
“Behold, they shall be as stubble,
The fire shall burn them;
They shall not deliver themselves
From the power of the flame;
It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
Nor a fire to sit before!
Thus shall they be to you
With whom you have laboured,
Your merchants from your youth;
They shall wander each one to his quarter.
No one shall save you.”
Isaiah 47:14-15
1. What the Babylonians cannot do.
a) They cannot escape the fire.
b) They cannot deliver themselves.
2. The Fire that God would send.
a) It is not coal-fire.
b) It is not fire that will bring warmth.
c) It will be a divine fire.
i) It will burn the Babylonians.
ii) They are compared to mere “stubble”.
3. Their business partners.
a) There were merchants.
b) These were old business partners.
c) They would not come to the aid of the Babylonians.
d) They would wander away from their Babylonian partners.
e) They would desert them altogether.