Isaiah28
v.6
He will be a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgement, a source of strength to those who turn back at the battle at the gate.
This prophecy probably falls in the first years of Hezekiah, when Samaria still stood, and the storm of war was gathering black in the north. The portion included in the text predicts the fall of Samaria {Isaiah 28:1 - Isaiah 28:6} and then turns to Judah, which is guilty of the same sins as the northern capital, and adds to them mockery of the prophet’s message. Isaiah speaks with fiery indignation and sharp sarcasm. His words are aflame with loathing of the moral corruption of both kingdoms, and he fastens on the one common vice of drunkenness-not as if it were the only sin, but because it shows in the grossest form the rottenness underlying the apparent beauty.
v.7
Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.
v.9-10
“Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast? 10For it is: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a little there.”
As the prophet declares the word of God in this drink-dominated setting, his hearers make their response. The drunkards feel insulted. Are they not themselves spiritual leaders, well able to teach others? What right has this man to teach them spiritual “milk”? Isaiah’s words have hardly penetrated the alcohol-impregnated atmosphere that surrounds his hearers. What they have picked up are simply a few stray syllables, some of them repeated, like the baby-talk that delights the child but insults the adult. They mouth this gibberish back at the prophet. Their judgement lies in their failure to hear the word that could have led them back to God; but there is another judgement on its way, most appropriate in its form. Their sin has turned the word of God through Isaiah into a meaningless noise that may just well have ben a foreign language.
v.26
His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.