Isaiah 10:1-6 The Hebrews Prophets: Isaiah & Amos
Joseph Napoleon
World History 1500
Journal Entry Personal View
"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees , to
deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my
people. Making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do
on the day of the reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you
run for help? Where will you leave your riches? Nothing will remain but to
cringe among the captives, of fall among the slain.. Yet for all this his anger
is not turned away. His hand is still upraised. "Woe to the Assyrian, the rod
of my anger, in whose hand is the club of the wrath! I send him against a
Godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and
snatch, and to trample them down like mud in the streets."
These writings, from the enscriptures of the bible some say philosophical,
inspire mystery, wonder and the relation to how true they are. I have a
monotheistic way of thinking, though the bible is said to be the writings of the
way of life of Moses and the Hebrews, I am puzzled by how certain writings
pertain to society, culture and the life of man and women today.
As I try to decipher this passage in my own words of Isaiah. One is speaking of
the oppression committed by man upon man. It is Jesus asking why man whom were
created as brother and sister making unjustly laws...deprive the poor of their
rights...withhold the justice from the oppressed of my people.
I strongly believe there is a judgment day. For all the wrongs committed in