Eye of Sodom

[Isa. 3:9] The shew of their countenance doth witness against them The word translated "shew" is only used in this place. Which may be known by their countenances; the countenance oftentimes shows what is in the heart, the cruel disposition of the mind, the pride and vanity of it, the uncleanness and lasciviousness that is in it. It may be judged of them; their guilt flies in their face, and fills them with shame and confusion; not only their words and actions, but their disrespectful looks, show what they are. The steadfastness of their countenance-they appear to be bent on iniquity, their eyes tell the wickedness of their hearts. The eye is the index of the mind. Envy, hatred, malice, wickedness, and murder, when in the heart, look most intelligently out at the eye. They tell the innocent to be on their guard; they announce the presence of the destroyer. Impure tendency are particularly legible in the eyes for hey glory in their iniquity. This is the highest pitch of ungodliness.And they have committed it openly, without fear or shame; glory in it, and boast of it! Woe unto their soul - they have brought upon themselves, soul and body, the just recommence of reward; they have been the cause of their own ruin, and have wronged their own souls. Every man's sin is against his own soul. Evil awaits sinners-and he that offends his G-d injures himself. The condition of sinners is woeful and very deplorable. Their minds are vain, and lewd, and malicious; their eyes declare plainly that they cannot cease from sin. One may look them in the face and guess at the desperate wickedness that there is in their hearts. They declare their sin as Sodom, so unthinking, so domineering, are their lusts, and so impatient of the least check, and so perfectly are all the remaining sparks of virtue extinguished in them. The Sodomites declared their sin, not only by the exceeding greatness of it (Genesis 13:13), so that it cried to heaven (Genesis 18:20), but by their shameless owning of that which was most shameful (Genesis 19:5); and thus Judah and Jerusalem did: they were so far from hiding it that they gloried in it, in the bold attempts they made upon virtue, and the victory they gained over their own convictions. They had a whore's forehead (Jeremiah 3:3) and could not blush, Jeremiah 6:15. Note: Those that have grown impudent in sin are ripe for ruin. Those that are past shame are past grace, and then past hope, without repentance.That their guides, who should direct them in the right way, put them out of the way, mislead them; they cause them to err. Either they preached to them that which was false and corrupt, or, if they preached that which was true and good, they contradicted it by their practices, and the people would soon follow a bad example than a good exhortation. Thus they destroyed the ways of their paths, pulling down with one hand what they built up with the other.Their priests applauded them, as if nothing were amiss among them, cried Peace, peace, to them, as if they were in no danger; and thus they caused them to go on in their errors.Look deep into ones’ eyes and you will know how to pray for their soul.