Isaiah 12-17

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger, 11 though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.

-- Isaiah 17:1-11

I must admit Isaiah is very hard to grasp hold of. Although this week, it is comparatively better than the last, it is so hard to understand why God is declaring prosperous cities will be ruined in the prophecies. At the end of the day, they are God's creation. I don't know the background of these cities, but how worse were they that made God painfully destroy His own creation?

In Isaiah 17:1-11, we are reminded that to anchor ourselves in the right place with God. If we don't, although our lives may seem to be prosperous, but at the end of the day, if it is anchored in the wrong place, will just bring grief, incurable pain, and I guess in context today, eternal separation with God in Hell.