OUR FATHER WHO JUDGES HIS OWN PEOPLE

The book of Isaiah, in chapter 22 verse 3 - 5, says this;

All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow.

All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away.

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.”

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day of tumult and trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains.

This passage is a prophetic utterance by the prophet Isaiah about Judah and the city of Jerusalem.

The Lord, through Isaiah, declared that even though Jerusalem was a exuberant and boisterous city, she would be abandoned by her leaders when the day of judgement came.

Those who are slain from it will not have died in battle or in the honorable defence of the city.

Instead, the fleeing leaders would be captured a long distance away while the people left in Jerusalem suffer tumult and terror as the walls of the city are torn down.

They cried to the mountains for help but to no avail for the Lord had removed the protective covering from over them.

As verse 8 says;

The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,  and you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest (armoury).

Lord have mercy on us.

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