OUR FATHER WHO WILL JUDGE THE UNJUST LEGISLATORS AND UNJUST EXECUTIVES AND UNJUST JUDGES OF ISRAEL

The book of Isaiah chapter 10 verse 1 says this;

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,

And Isaiah chapter 10 verse 2 continues this way;

to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

The preface to our verse of interest warns of disaster that will be aimed towards those in authority over jurisdictions who ;

• Fashion legislation that was unjust
• Crush people by issuing oppresive decrees

Our verse continues listing the activities that will draw calamities of judgement;

• Depriving the poor of their rights
• Withholding justice from God's people who are victimized
• Targeting widows for exploitation
• Robbing  the fatherless of their means

These details of the judgements that would fall on those making and enforcing unjust laws in Israel are the last of the four targeted judgements aimed at Israel.

Each if the four infractions and their judgements are anticeded by the phrase;

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised

The three preceding targets and their judgements are;

• Instigation:   Pride and willfulness 
• Judgement: Invasion by neighbours

• Instigation:   Deception and false doctrine
• Judgement: Removal of leadership

• Instigation :  Wicked conduct
• Judgement: Civil war and abject shortages

These are the systematically applied judgements that were aimed at purging Israel of ungodliness and in the end, as verse 21 says, a remnant will remain;

A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.

Amen

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