Isaiah 5

 

‭Isaiah‬ ‭5:24‬ ‭NLT‬ Therefore, just as fire licks up stubble and dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will rot and their flowers wither. For they have rejected the law of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies; they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

God blessed Israel and taught them but disobeyed, that is why God sent judgment. Yes, but that's not all. We'll see as we study scriptures that God's reason God does something is often many faceted. When we read one place, it's his anger, in another it's justice for the poor, another it's to purify, and another it's because of His love for bringing disaster. Which is it? It might be hard to understand but it's all of them. 

Here in this chapter, it is because they have been given so much and have chosen to reject it. It goes with the idea, to who much is given much is required.