WOE UNTO THE WICKED TEXT: ISA 3:11 I. THE WICKED SWINDLE. HAB 2:6- II. THE WICKED HAVE SELF-APPOINTED SECURITY. HAB 2:9- III. THE WICKED HAVE FALSE SCIENCE. HAB 2:12- IV. THE WICKED HAVE INTOXICATING SPIRITS. HAB 2:15- V. THE WICKED ARE STUDENTS OF SATAN. HAB 2:19- CONCLUSION ISA 6:5-7

1. Woe unto the Wicked
Isaiah 3; Ezekiel 2; & Habakkuk 2
Text: Isa 3:11
Woe unto the wicked!
it shall be ill with him:
for the reward of his hands
shall be given him.
The wages of sin always has a payday.

2. “Woe” is both a warning and invitation
to a way of escape.
Ezek 2:10
10) And he spread it before me; and it was
written within and without:
and there was written therein lamentations, and
mourning, and
woe.
Woe unto the wicked!
I. The wicked Swindle.
Hab 2:6-
Shall not all these take up a parable against him,
and a taunting proverb against him, and say,
Woe to him that increaseth that which is not
his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself
with thick clay!

3. Ezek 30:2-3
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the
day!
3 For the day is near, even the day of the
LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the
time of the heathen.
Ezek 30:6
Thus saith the LORD; They also that
uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her
power shall come down: from the tower of
Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith
the Lord GOD.
Jas 5:1-4
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for
your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your
garments are motheaten.

4. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the
rust of them shall be a witness against you,
and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye
have heaped treasure together for the last
days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have
reaped down your fields, which is of you
kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of
them which have reaped are entered into the
ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
There is a payday someday to the wicked but
for today the warning is
Woe to the wicked.
II. The wicked have self-appointed Security.
The subtle lie of security is the then line the
lies between Security and luxury.

5. Man is given to excess and if he see himself as
capable of providing his own security he will
soon seek excess in the power of his own
hands.
Hab 2:9-
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness
to his house, that he may set his nest on high,
that he may be delivered from the power of
evil!
Isa 5:8-9
Woe unto them that join house to house,
that lay field to field, till there be no place,
that they may be placed alone in the midst
of the earth!
9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a
truth many houses shall be desolate, even
great and fair, without inhabitant.

6. Isa 17:12-13
Woe to the multitude of many people, which
make a noise like the noise of the seas; and
to the rushing of nations, that make a
rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of
many waters: but God shall rebuke them,
and they shall flee far off, and shall be
chased as the chaff of the mountains before
the wind, and like a rolling thing before the
whirlwind.
There is a payday someday to the population of
men confederate in the power of their own
welfare.
But for today the warning is,
Woe to the wicked.

7. III. The wicked have false Science.
Hab 2:12-
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood,
and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
Ezek 16:21-23
That thou hast slain my children, and
delivered them to cause them to pass
through the fire for them?
22 And in all thine abominations and thy
whoredoms thou hast not remembered the
days of thy youth, when thou wast naked
and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
23 And it came to pass after all thy
wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the
Lord GOD;)
Ezek 16:27
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my
hand over thee, and have diminished thine
ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the

8. will of them that hate thee, the daughters of
the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy
lewd way.
Isa 3:1
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of
hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem
and from Judah the stay and the staff,
the whole stay of bread, and the whole
stay of water,
Isa 3:9
The shew of their countenance doth
witness against them; and they declare
their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe
unto their soul! for they have rewarded
evil unto themselves.
Ezek 24:6-10
Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to
the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is
therein, and whose scum is not gone out of

9. it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall
upon it.
7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she
set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it
not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
8 That it might cause fury to come up to
take vengeance; I have set her blood upon
the top of a rock, that it should not be
covered.
9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe
to the bloody city! I will even make the pile
for fire great.
10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume
the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones
be burned.
1Tim 6:20
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to
thy trust, avoiding profane and vain
babblings, and oppositions of science falsely
so called:

10. There is a payday someday to the wicked who
manipulate the elements of God’s creation to
their own selfish means.
But for today the warning is,
Woe to the wicked.
IV. The wicked have intoxicating Spirits.
Hab 2:15-
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink,
that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him
drunken also, that thou mayest look on their
nakedness!
Isa 5:11
Woe unto them that rise up early in the
morning, that they may follow strong drink;
that continue until night, till wine inflame
them!
Prov 23:29-32

11. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath
contentions? who hath babbling? who hath
wounds without cause? who hath redness of
eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they
that go to seek mixed wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is
red, when it giveth his colour in the cup,
when it moveth itself aright.
32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and
stingeth like an adder.
There is a payday someday to the wicked who
seek respite in a bottle of spirits instead of
being in subjection to the Holy Spirit.
But for today the warning is,
Woe to the wicked.

12. V. The wicked are Students of Satan.
Hab 2:19-
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to
the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it
is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no
breath at all in the midst of it.
1Tim 4:1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in
the latter times some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
doctrines of devils;
Ezek 13:3
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the
foolish prophets, that follow their own
spirit, and have seen nothing!
Isa 5:18-19

13. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with
cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a
cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, and
hasten his work, that we may see it: and let
the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw
nigh and come, that we may know it!
Rev 12:12
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that
dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the
earth and of the sea! for the devil is come
down unto you, having great wrath, because
he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
There is a payday someday to the wicked who
seek supernatural knowledge outside the pages
of scripture.
But for today the warning is,
Woe to the wicked.

14. Conclusion
Isa 6:5-7
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone;
because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell
in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for
mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of
hosts.
6) Then flew one of the seraphims unto me,
having a live coal in his hand, which he had
taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7) And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo,
this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is
taken away, and thy sin purged.
Ps 91:7-9
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come
nigh thee.
8) Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and
see the reward of the wicked.

15. 9) Because thou hast made the LORD, which is
my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
WOE UNTO THE WICKED
TEXT: ISA3:11
I. THE WICKED SWINDLE.
HAB 2:6-
II. THE WICKED HAVE SELF-APPOINTED SECURITY.
HAB 2:9-
III. THE WICKED HAVE FALSE SCIENCE.
HAB 2:12-
IV. THE WICKED HAVE INTOXICATING SPIRITS.
HAB 2:15-
V. THE WICKED ARE STUDENTS OF SATAN.
HAB 2:19-
CONCLUSION
ISA6:5-7