Isaiah: Long necked women and their boys

Isaiah 1:1 1-49. “The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah saw

“I reared children and brought them up but they have rebelled against me.....woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; ....your hands are full of blood!...Wash and make yourselves clean, Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wring, learn to do right; seek justice.  Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. .See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was once full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her - but now murderers! .....Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.

2. In the last days....the mountains of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains....Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob...He will teach us his ways so that we may walk in his paths.....stop trusting in mere humans who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?....

3. “I will make mere youths their officials ;children will rule over them..people will oppress each other -man against man, neighbour against neighbour. The young will rise up against the old, the nobody against the honoured....the look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom, they do not hide it . Woe to them! They have brought disasters upon themselves.....Tell the rightestous it will be well with them for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds, Woe to the wicked!....Youths oppress my people, women rule over them.....the Lord says the Women of Zion are haughty walking along with outstretched necks flirting with their eyes strutting along with swaying hips, with ornaments jingling on their ankles....therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion....instead of fragrance there will be stench...instead of beauty, branding...Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle.’

Reading the Bible so often is as if the events described are today when indeed they are universal and forever.  That’s the  nature of the Holy.  It resonates.  It’s open to interpretations.  

In the Bible like in science there is cause and effect and there’s possibility of change.  In Materialistic Determinism all is fixed. There is no ‘free will’.  Naturally people take pride in success and blame others or fate in failure but they deny ‘right and wrong’. The Bible has morality and ethics.  I’ve left out a lot of this passage of Isaiah.  I like Isaiah.  Great images.