POEM: Woe Unto You (Isaiah 5)
By: Eric Gajewksi
Is: 5: 20 Woe to you 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.
Here is my latest poem from the work, "Fortress of the Soul". Pleas enjoy and share it. At the end is a compilation of my poems.
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Here is my latest poem from the work, "Fortress of the Soul". Pleas enjoy and share it. At the end is a compilation of my poems.
Press play and listen to the song as you read the poem
POEM: Woe Unto You (Isaiah 5)
You consider not Our Lord
Nor His Wonderful Works thereof,
Ye who stay below in the meadows as
rabbits
Eating of your own recycled dung,
Ye flee from reality for thee within
art lonely
Sadly, on the surface, you run to
every sound
But knowest not where this bell
tolls,
For sinners break and have signed
their hearts over, it is fate
In this mirroring of His Face
arriving in this hour, so late
Hell hath enlarged her hole on your
account
Enveloping so many souls,
Bringing down the worldly and mighty
ones
By this age’s false light, with hearts
lusting power
Modern man’s “last stand” in his ascending
new tower
But In all her vain height
This too shalst be brought down!
As the Lord of Hosts consoles
And comes unto His own,
Persecuted by condoned cords of
vanity
Amidst these madmen wherest darkness
is sown
But such shalst He crush so that
everyone knows
Who is thee Origin of the Wind which
blows
Who is thee Hand on this Book of
Life
Which He alone can only close
Woe unto you!,
Who call evil good…
Your days are numbered, safety
shalst flee thee and thy feet
For the Abyss below awaits as your empty
home
You, who put the darkness for light
Bitter is the bark of your wood
For it is the Self within which consumes….
Woe unto you,
Who think you are wise in your own
eyes
For Blind thou art in the day and
truth ye despise
Flat, shalst ye fall, as the Fire
consumes you from the skies
For even your aged wine is bitter
And in your drunkenness you are
driven by lies
Yea, it is these same mighty ones
Whose tongues seek “one voice” who
likewise conspire
So shall too, ye be consumed, by
Truth,
In this purifying heat of the coming
Noon
For the Day of Wrath touches all
Striking hard the chords of His
people in Justice’s song
Let the mountains, the valleys and
every beast proclaim
Lo’ His Voice which rises as a noise
echoing from every sea
Relaying… that all must be balanced;
that all must be complete
And thus an eagle thrice cries too
Because sinful men ignore heavens
plea as to his own coming dread
Utter ruin, with a message for the
worldly and doctrinally lewd
Soon, as the Bridegroom assumes in
this here tune called,
“Woe, Woe, Woe unto You”
Isaiah 5
[1] I
will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his
vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. [2] And he
fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it with the choicest
vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein:
and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it broutht forth wild grapes.
[3] And
now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my
vineyard. [4]
What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to
it? [5]
And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the
hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and
it shall be trodden down.
[1] My cousin: So the prophet calls Christ, as being of
his family and kindred, by descending from the house of David. Ibid.
[1] On a hill: Literally, in the horn, the son of oil.
[6] And
I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged:
but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no
rain upon it. [7]
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of
Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold
iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry. [8] Woe to
you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the
place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth? [9] These
things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: unless many great and fair
houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant. [10] For ten
acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed
shall yield three bushels. [11] Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed with wine. [12] The harp, and the lyre, and the timbrel, and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands. [13] Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst. [14] Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it. [15] And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.
[16] And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice. [17] And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness. [18] Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart. [19] That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it. [20] Woe to you 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.
[21] Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits. [22] Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness. [23] That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him. [24] Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the dame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel. [25] Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
[26] And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly. [27] There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken. [28] Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the hint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest. [29] Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it. [30] And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist thereof.
