Isaiah
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on CD 		"I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine." -- Isaiah 49:26

Isaiah for Skeptics

In Isaiah we learn that God is the creator of evil (45:7) -- which is no big surprise considering his behavior in the rest of the book.

Here are some highlights:

  •  God will "smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion" because he dislikes the way they dress and walk. 3:16

  •  "The Lord will discover their secret parts." 3:17

  •  "The Lord shall hiss for the fly ... and for the bee." 7:18

  •  God will make every man kill his brother and then force him to eat "the flesh of his own arm." 9:19-20

  •  If God can find you, he will "thrust you through," smash your children "to pieces" before your eyes, and rape your wife. 13:15-18

  •  God sends a "perverse spirit" among the Egyptians and causes them to err "as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit." 19:14

  •  God tells Isaiah to take off all his clothes and to wander around completely naked for three years as a "sign and a wonder." 20:2-5

  •  "Thou shalt cast them away as a menstrous cloth." 30:22

  •  "Tremble, ye women that are at ease ... strip you, and make you bare." 32:11

  •  "There stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood." 34:2-3

  •  God's sword is "filled with blood." He plans to kill so many people that the "land will be soaked with blood." 34:5-8

  •  "That they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you." 36:12

  •  God will "go forth as a mighty man" who cries and roars, and "will cry like a travailing woman." 42:13

  • God created evil. 45:7

  • God will make people "eat their own flesh" and be "drunken with their own blood." 49:26

  •  God's clothes will get stained with the blood of humans. 63:3-6

  •  God will "plead with all flesh" with his fire and sword. "And the slain of the Lord shall be many." 66:16

  •  The carcasses of those killed by God will be piled high. They will rot and burn forever. 66:24