OUR FATHER WHO JUDGES THE JUDGES

The book of Isaiah chapter 10 verses 1 - 2 says this?

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, 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 Lord declares that imminent disaster is approaching the legal realm of the nation of Israel because of the injustice and opression that they had enacted into law.

The legislators and magistrates and administrators had undertaken to create a corrupt environment supported by unjust laws.

 They had issued decrees that overrode the intrinsic rights of the poor and they had set themselves up to be able to exploit the widows and the fatherless with impunity.

But even though the vulnerable members of society seemed defenceless, they had a defender who was stirred to anger because of the culture of corruption that had entrenched itself in the land. 

The Lord, confronting those who had enriched themselves at the expense of the voiceless in the land, says this in verses 3 - 4;

What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain.Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Amen.

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