"And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.(v.46)"
Judah has been compared figuratively as daughter of Zion and here God finds her many sins worthy of judgment as He did with Sodom. Sodom is dead but continued in the many sins of omission and commission of Judah. Isaiah faulted her faithlessness, "For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against theLord, to provoke the eyes of his glory./The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves(Is.3:8-9).
In forsaking the fountain of living waters what Judah chose for herself is something worse. When beasts of the field cannot find fresh grass they are required to pasture far and wide in order to get their daily needs. Suppose one eats and the body cannot absorb anything of it so one feels more starved after it must be pitiable. A mind also could be similarly affected by sin. A reprobate mind is willing to sells one's own future for the moment's pleasure. Sin is disruption of normal working between God and man. "And even as they did not like to retain God intheirknowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;(Ro.1:28)"
Daughter of Zion is like insatiable in seeking her thrills even as Sodom and Gomorrah did. "For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters,andhewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water (Je.2:13)". In this age of sexual permissiveness one can see parallel. Love that is natural has become debased. If ministers of God preaching love of Christ seem more after filthy lucre, the small mis-steps in judgment took them farther away in course of time.
"And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.(v.46)"
Judah has been compared figuratively as daughter of Zion and here God finds her many sins worthy of judgment as He did with Sodom. Sodom is dead but continued in the many sins of omission and commission of Judah. Isaiah faulted her faithlessness, "For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against theLord, to provoke the eyes of his glory./The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves(Is.3:8-9).
In forsaking the fountain of living waters what Judah chose for herself is something worse. When beasts of the field cannot find fresh grass they are required to pasture far and wide in order to get their daily needs. Suppose one eats and the body cannot absorb anything of it so one feels more starved after it must be pitiable. A mind also could be similarly affected by sin. A reprobate mind is willing to sells one's own future for the moment's pleasure. Sin is disruption of normal working between God and man. "And even as they did not like to retain God intheirknowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;(Ro.1:28)"
Daughter of Zion is like insatiable in seeking her thrills even as Sodom and Gomorrah did. "For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters,andhewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water (Je.2:13)". In this age of sexual permissiveness one can see parallel. Love that is natural has become debased. If ministers of God preaching love of Christ seem more after filthy lucre, the small mis-steps in judgment took them farther away in course of time.
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