Contemplative Bible Reading

Isaiah 28:1, 7, 8 (New Living Translation)

1 What sorrow awaits the proud city of Samaria—
the glorious crown of the drunks of Israel.
It sits at the head of a fertile valley,
but its glorious beauty will fade like a flower.
It is the pride of a people
brought down by wine.

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7 Now, however, Israel is led by drunks
who reel with wine and stagger with alcohol.
The priests and prophets stagger with alcohol
and lose themselves in wine.
They reel when they see visions
and stagger as they render decisions.
8 Their tables are covered with vomit;
filth is everywhere

What a phrase: the drunks of Israel. This is what has happened in the Northern Kingdom of God’s people.

God does not prohibit the drinking of wine. God does prohibit being drunk. These people in these verses were drunk much of the time. Their tables are covered with drunk-induced vomit.

They are pathetic excuses of persons.

Doom is coming. There is no escape when the people choose to be led by drunks, when the people allow their leaders to be drunks.