Isaiah 5:8-30 - Judgement

There were some who accumulated land just for themselves, taking land from other people. Under the Law there was a vital concern with people having a right to land. This was an important part of the allocation of land when they entered the Promised Land.

When people get great wealth they start to boast of their wealth, and start trusting in it. All this boasting and trusting will come to nothing.

Then they indulge themselves in ever more trivial pursuits. So God says His people will go into exile for lack of understanding". Lack of understanding of what? Of our true place in the world, the true value of things, and our true purpose.So the proud and arrogant will be consumed, and the sheep will once again have pasture to dwell in.

Then we get a whole series of woes. This means that people who think or act in the ways delineated are in for a big shock.

First there are those who take pride in their own wisdom, calling good bad, and bad good. Surely we see this all around us today. In the debates on homosexuality the moral climate now is that it is good to support homosexuality and evil to even question its merits in the mildest possible terms. This is the opposite of what the Bible teaches.

Then there are those who indulge in excess drinking, and those who acquit the guilty. The nation had turned away from God. So God would summon the nations to expel them from the land. This is in line with what God said He would do in Deuteronomy.