What are the consequences for disregarding the Lord’s counsel?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The Lord here condemns not only drinking, but the riotous lifestyle associated with it (v. 12; see also D&C 59:20–21). Verse 13 tells us that this type of behavior leads to captivity and thirst. It could be a pronouncement of a physical captivity and destruction to come upon the people, or of a spiritual captivity that leads to ‘hell,’ with the idea of ‘thirst’ representing a lack of the Spirit. (See Amos 8:11–12; John 7:37–39.) Verse 14 then promises a definite spiritual punishment: the word hell in Hebrew is sheol, meaning ‘grave,’ ‘underworld,’ ‘spirit world,’ or ‘spirit prison’” (Ludlow, Isaiah, 118–19).

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