Today, I am reading and commenting on  Isaiah 5-8.

Every year when I read chapter 5 verse 8 I think of how the wealthy live in so many places.
Woe to you who add house to house
    and join field to field
till no space is left
    and you live alone in the land.
Isaiah goes on from there to say that the houses will become desolate and the fields unproductive.  And of course that will happen because where will those who do the work to maintain the houses and care for the fields live?  But it’s more than just the wealthy pushing the poor out so that they do not have to see them living nearby.  Isaiah also refers to those who are more intent on partying and having a good time than taking care of those in need, than in doing that which pleases the Lord.  Isaiah goes on to warn us against saying that that which is evil is good, or that that which is good is evil.  Finally, I want to call attention to Isaiah’s warning against being wise in our own eyes or thinking we are especially clever.  All will be humbled, better to start out humble than be put there forcefully.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.