Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"Justice is turned back"
Text: Isaiah 59:14
THE SORRY STATE OF ISRAEL
The state of Israel in the days of Isaiah was a sad and sorry one. The following text is a candid description of the state of the nation.
“In transgressing and lying against the LORD,
And departing from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands afar off;
For truth is fallen in the street,
And equity cannot enter.
So truth fails,
And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him
That there was no justice.”
Isaiah 59:13-15
1. The spiritual state
a) Israel had departed from the LORD
b) The sins of the nation:
I) Transgression of the Law.
ii) Lying against the LORD.
2. The political state
a) Oppression
b) Revolt
c) Falsehood was rampant.
d) There was deep turmoil.
3. The Judiciary
a) Justice was not upheld.
b) It was turned back.
c) Righteousness seems to be far away.
d) There was hardly anyone who practised truth in the streets.
e) There was no equity.
4. The moral state.
a) Truth was failing.
b) The person who departs from evil finds himself in danger as a prey to predators.
5. The LORD’s response.
a) He was displeased.
b) He saw that Justice was not upheld in any way.