TSK · Isaiah 23:17

This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.’

You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.

“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

The Lord Refutes Israel’s False Claim of Innocence The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the LORD and say,“The LORD is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!”

Those who are left from the kingdom of Judah will take possession of it. By the sea they will graze, in the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down in the evening, for the LORD their God will intervene for them and restore their prosperity.

not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.

Give a shepherd’s care to God’s flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God’s direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.

Then the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up.