Plowshares and Pruning Hooks
He shall judge among the nations and settle disputes for many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isaiah 2:4
He shall judge among the nations and settle disputes for many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isaiah 2:4
He shall judge among the nations and settle disputes for many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isaiah 2:4
Behind the Art
It’s been like this for years. I don’t read the papers or watch TV that much. But, if I’m driving to an art show or working in my office, I will often turn on the radio. That’s when I get the news. And it never seems to change. I guess I’m about ninety-eight percent numb to it by now. “Wars and rumors of war”, violence, hatred, bloody reprisals. From time to time, though, something connects. The terrible hurt in the report I’ve just heard hits home, cutting through my apathy. “O, Lord”, I find myself saying, though it’s really more of a groan, “is all this cruelty ever going to end?” A fairly common reaction, I imagine.
“Yes. As a matter of fact, it is going to end,” He promises us in the second chapter of Isaiah. And I find it a comfort to think about that, and to reread these verses.
—Michael