Today, I am reading and commenting on  Isaiah 17-21.

When I read today’s passage I decided that I wanted to write about chapter 17 verses 7-8 and verses 10-11.  However, I have struggled with how to connect verses seven and eight with verses ten and eleven.  In verses seven and eight, Isaiah says that in the day when only a remnant of the people will remain that the people will look to God.  Then in verses ten and eleven he says that, because we have forgotten God, our attempts to cultivate crops will fail.  I finally realized that verses ten and eleven tells us how the circumstances which led to seven and eight came to be.  When we forget God, things go very bad.  So bad that eventually those that remain finally turn to God for deliverance.  Then we have verses twelve through fourteen which tell us that if we turn to God before things go bad, terror will surround us at nightfall, but by the morning it will be gone.  For those who serve the Lord, we may feel like we are surrounded by troubles which cannot be overcome, but, if we continue to trust in God, those troubles will vanish with a new dawn.

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