Therefore, hear the Word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule. You have entered into a covenant with death and made an agreement with the realm of the dead. You have made lies your refuge and falsehood your hiding place.
Your refuge of lies will be swept away and so will your hiding place of falsehoods. Your covenant of death will be annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand. You will be beaten down day by day. This message should bring terror to you because the LORD will rise up to do HIS WORK, and perform HIS TASK, HIS ALIEN TASK. Now stop your mocking or the destruction decreed against the land – STANDS!
You people come near to Me with your mouth and honor Me with your lips, but your hearts are FAR from Me. Your worship of Me is based on mere human rules that you have been taught by those who are FAR from Me. The wisdom of the world will perish, and its intelligence will vanish.
Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from Me, who do their work in secret and think, ‘Who sees us? Who will know?’ You have turned things upside down, as if the Potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the One who formed it, ‘You did not make me!?’ Can the pot say to the Potter, ‘You know nothing!’?
In the Day of the LORD, the humble will rejoice in the LORD! In the Day of the LORD the ruthless will all vanish, the mockers will all disappear, and all who have eye for evil will be cut down to nothing – those who, with a word, make someone out to be guilty who is not guilty, who with trickery ensnare the defender in court, and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice. You will ALL be cut down!
Since you have been unwilling to listen to Me, when you see the work of MY HANDS, you will keep My Name Holy; you will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One. Those who are wayward in spirit, will gain understanding from Me; those who complain, will listen to MY instruction….and will stand in AWE of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; the LORD of all, over all My Creation and Redemption!
All this is from the LORD ALMIGHTY whose plan is altogether just and wonderful, whose wisdom is supreme and magnificent! I have laid a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on Him will never be stricken with panic. The LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore, He will yet rise up to show you compassion when you throw away your idols. He will rise up to show compassion on those who fully trust in Him.
For the LORD is a God of justice! And justice is being denied by your rulers. Woe to these obstinate people who carry out plans that are not Mine, forming an alliance, but not by My Spirit, heaping sin upon sin!
Blessed are all who look to Me, listen to Me, wait on Me, the LORD!
(Taken out of Isaiah 28 and 29)