Today, I am reading and commenting on  Isaiah 13-16.

I find it interesting that Isaiah, who lived and prophesied before Babylon had risen to be enough of a power to be perceived as a threat to Assyrian dominance, prophesied the downfall of Babylon.  To me, this feels like someone prophesying the fall of the Soviet Union (the Bolsheviks) before the outbreak of World War I.  I wrote about that in order to focus my mind on this passage.  Isaiah warns against the pride of nations and rulers.  Isaiah said that the rulers of Babylon would elevate themselves, in their own minds, to divine status, that everyone had heard of Moab’s pride, and that the Philistines would rejoice at the fall of their oppressors as if they had accomplished it themselves.  But God has other plans and things will happen as God has planned it.  Isaiah tells us that God says:

Surely, as I have planned, so it will be,
and as I have purposed, so it will happen.

We can put our trust in this: what God has planned will happen.

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