6 ¶ I was wroth with my people, I have polluted
mine inheritance, and agiven them into thine hand: thou
didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid
thy yokea.
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6a upon the ancient hast thow very
heavily laid thy yoke Isaiah was prophet prior to the scattering of
Israel and the captivity of the Jews in Babylon. Thus the 'ancient' likely
dates back to earlier days, likely the days of Noah, Shem and Abraham. In
the days of Abraham, Terah, Abraham's father was a worshipper of a false
and corrupt religion and did at one time offer up Abraham to be sacrificed
upon the altar. That Noah's children, the primary center of them did resort
to corrupted idol worship is a fact and by the time of Babel they basically
had all gone astray after wickedness. Babylon and Chaldea is that ancient
kingdom of Sumer which was also associated with the gods of Egypt and idol
worship and human sacrifice. Certainly these are the ancients of this
ancient day of Sumer which is referenced here, the days of Babel, the kigdom
of Sumer down to the time of the attempted sacrifice of Abraham in Ur or
the Chaldees.
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