Isaiah 1:28

Destruction. Those who rebel against God and engage in sin will perish. Rebellion against Heaven is a challenge to Jehovah to a trial of strength, and the result is inevitable. The threatened doom is total and certain.

Shall be consumed. God alone is the source of life. There can be no existence apart from Him. Having forsaken God, the wicked will face only one fate, and that is cessation of life. Not eternal life, but eternal death, will be the lot of all who forsake the Lord. “The wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23), and “the soul that sinneth, it shall die” (Eze. 18:4), “punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord” (2 Thess. 1:9). “The wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs; they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away” (Ps. 37:20). “All that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch” (Mal. 4:1). “They shall be as though they had not been” (Obadiah 16). “For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be” (Ps. 37:10).