The purpose of preaching has always been to teach every man and warn them of the judgment to come.  Colossians 1:28. In Isaiah 5:8-23, God’s prophet Isaiah pronounces six woes, or warnings, to a sinful people, pleading with them to come back to God. The parallels between the sin of Isaiah’s day and that of our own time are strikingly similar – too much so to be overlooked.  Warning is given to the covetous (5:8-10), the carnal (5:11-17), those who are captive to sin (5:18-19), those who have lost their moral direction (5:20), those who conceive their own standard of right and wrong (5:21) and lastly, those who corrupt justice (5:23).