04-15-2009, 04:47 AM
Isaiah 5:17
The Lord says
"Here is me! Here is my vineyard!"
"There I am! There is my vineyard!"
"There was no way to be perfect! There was no way to perfect it!"
"Perfectly it ends! Perfectionately ends it!"
"But this is mysterious!" you say.
I have no grievance against you, the picture of Solomon I gave you was for the wind after all... why should you keep it?
This is what the Lord is saying:
"Though I desire to be perfect...
...Though I desire my people to have what is perfect...
....Yet when I judge them, they hold perfection against me
...And when I give them what is perfect, they say "We have perfection!"
...Therefore what they have will be divided
And given to other nations"
Now see the picture the Lord paints:
mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
The words that were given to Babylon!
Oh Israel? Are you no better than the collapse of a kingdom you escaped?
But the Lord... the Lord says
'NO'
The Lord says
"Here is me! Here is my vineyard!"
"There I am! There is my vineyard!"
"There was no way to be perfect! There was no way to perfect it!"
"Perfectly it ends! Perfectionately ends it!"
"But this is mysterious!" you say.
I have no grievance against you, the picture of Solomon I gave you was for the wind after all... why should you keep it?
This is what the Lord is saying:
"Though I desire to be perfect...
...Though I desire my people to have what is perfect...
....Yet when I judge them, they hold perfection against me
...And when I give them what is perfect, they say "We have perfection!"
...Therefore what they have will be divided
And given to other nations"
Now see the picture the Lord paints:
mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
The words that were given to Babylon!
Oh Israel? Are you no better than the collapse of a kingdom you escaped?
But the Lord... the Lord says
'NO'