Day 188-11

The passage on the vineyard in Isaiah made me think of this passage in the New Testament:

Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.  (Matthew 21:33-41)

Woe, woe, woe...how many woes?

Isa 5:8  Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 

This one made me think of how America (and other countries) have people all piled in on top of one another.

Actually, most, if not all of the woes remind me of America.  :-(  Our degradation is almost complete, all we need now is to be judged by an invading country or destroyed by natural disasters.

Isa 5:11  Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! 

Isa 5:18  Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 

Isa 5:20  Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 

How my heart weeps for this nation...Isa 5:21  Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 

Isa 5:22  Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

That is 5 contained in Isaiah 5.  What does woe mean?

woe - H1945 - A prolonged form of H1930 (akin to H188); oh!.

• H1930 - By permutation from H1929; oh!

permutation?  

noun

1.

the act of permuting or permutating; alteration;transformation.

2.

Mathematics .

a.

the act of changing the order of elements arranged in aparticular order, as abc  into acb, bac,  etc., or ofarranging a number of elements in groups made up ofequal numbers of the elements in different orders, as a and b  in ab  and ba;  a one-to-one transformation of aset with a finite number of elements.

b.

any of the resulting arrangements or groups. Comparecombination ( def. 8b ).

My...oh! My!  What things I learn when I set out to spend time with Him, in His Word.

• H1929 - A shortened form of H162; ah! expressing grief.
• H162 - Apparently a primitive word expressing pain exclamatorily; Oh!

H1945, used 50 times in 46 verses.  In 1 Kings translated as Alas!  Isaiah 1:4 and 24, Ah. Numerous translations of woe in Isaiah, 1 Ha!  Jeremiah has 3 Ahs in one verse, woe and Alas once, one O.  Ezekiel, Amos, Micah, Nahum, Habakkak, Zephaniah all record woes.  Zechariah has Ho, ho and O, in addition to a woe.  Quite an impressive list!