1)Behold, the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts it's surface and scatters its inhabitants. 2) and the people will be like the priets, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the boffower, the creditor like the debtor. 3) The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the LORD has spoken this word. 4) The earth mournes and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away. 5) The earth is also polluted by its inhabitatns, for they trangressed laws, biolated statues, broke the everlasting covenant. 6) Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who life in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitatns of the earth and burned, and few men are left.
I'm currently taking a class called "Environmental Ethics". We talk a lot about our responsibility to be stewards/caretakers of the earth and about issues facing the planet such as pollution, trash, food crisis, clean water, etc. I was reading Isaiah this morning and this passage (subtibled "Judgement on the Earth") has a little to say about how we should view what's happening around us, but also our responsibility toward it.
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