Isaiah 5:11-12

People’s self-interest totally fills their lives. Their conscience no longer warns them about the result of their behaviour. No thought about God enters their minds.

God’s judgement

v13 Therefore, enemies will take away many of my people to be prisoners in a foreign country. This is because my people have no knowledge of God. Their leaders will die because they have no food. Crowds will die because they have no water. v14 *Sheol is like an animal that opens wide its mouth. It is eagerly waiting to swallow the noble leaders of *Jerusalem and its noisy crowds. v15 Human beings (people) will discover that they have no strength. Noble and powerful men will suddenly become unimportant. Proud men and women will know shame. v16 The *Lord (commander of heaven’s armies) will show how truly great and holy he is by his perfectly fair judgements. v17 Young sheep and young goats will continue to find food to eat in their fields of grass. But also in the towns that enemies have ruined.