A great judgment of the people will have taken place and the wicked will have been cleansed from off the face of the earth. This means that a new order of things will have been established. It will be a glorious day, and the righteous will reign with Christ over all the earth. It will be a time when there is no more war and their swords will be beaten into plow-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.
But having pointed the eyes of all the people toward the Millennium, Isaiah stops and abruptly comes back to his own day when terrible wickedness currently prevailed among the Lord’s chosen people. He says:
“O house of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord; yea, come, for ye have all gone astray, every one to his wicked ways. Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and hearken unto soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots. Their land is also full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. And the mean man boweth not down, and the great man humbleth himself not, therefore, forgive him not.”