Isaiah 22:4
4 Therefore said ['amar] I, Look away [sha`ah] from
me; I will weep [Bakiy] bitterly [marar], labour ['uwts] not to
comfort [nacham] me, because of the spoiling [shod] of the daughter [bath] of
my people [`am]. KJV-Interlinear
4 Therefore I say, "Turn your eyes
away from me, Let me weep bitterly, Do not try to comfort me concerning the
destruction of the daughter of my people."
NASB
The wasted life
is great when people do not obey His mandates, who disregard their obligations
as believers in Christ, and that leads to a great sadness of God, because of
the ruin that results from an indifferent people.
And here is
Jerusalem, the symbol of the result of a fulfilled spiritual life.
Zion is the
symbol of the vast truth of God.
Zion resides
within the city of Jerusalem. Jerusalem
is the symbol of a people who have learned and inculcated and assimilated
doctrine into their souls by means of their daily dedication to learning
doctrine.
And when the
city or the process of spiritual growth ceases, and the residents or Christians
are lax in their growth, then ruin and destruction result.
And this causes
a sadness, but here in our verse, the sadness is a deep and very moving
sadness. One in which you have to go
somewhere to be alone to deal with it.
One in which there is no amount of comforting that can be offered to
make it better.
The weeping, the
grief, the sadness is beyond description, beyond words.
And here Isaiah
is expressing his feelings that convey how God feels about the lifetime of
wrong decisions and the result of their destruction that is also beyond
description.
God has created
a phenomenal plan for all of humanity.
Sadly too many refuse to see it and therefore they will suffer as never
before and lose as never before.
And since this is
a part of the final days of history prophecy against Jerusalem, then we know
from the study of Revelation, that the horrors of that time will be
unbelievable. Try to imagine every possible
crime and violence that can be used by people against other people, and then
multiply that by a hundred. Even that does
not come close to what is going to happen in those final days.
And as for us,
even though we are not among that final generation of that future time, there
is still a lesson to be learned. God
cares deeply about you. God has given
you something that is beyond value, a value that cannot be calculated. And yet how many will figure that out and
then dedicate themselves to achieving that which God has freely provided?
