Isaiah 37:23
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
To insult and revile the Scriptures is to insult and revile God himself, for contempt poured out upon his word reaches the Holy One of Israel in person. To raise the voice loud and to lift the eyes upward in pride is to lift the self on high in open defiance against him.
The question of whom such reproach strikes finds its answer in the nation that cast away the Bible and swept away the Christian religion, whose act stood as blasphemy against God. More particularly it is met in the decree of the French Assembly in 1793 forbidding the Bible, which was an exalting of the voice and a lifting of the eyes against the Holy One of Israel.
The vastness of the guilt incurred and the wreck and wretchedness that followed the casting aside of the Sacred Oracles laid bare how grave a thing it is to set oneself against God, and the spectacle left the world horror-struck. Out of that ruin came the lesson that trust in God and in his word is indispensable as the ground of virtue and morality. Defiance of that kind is met by God making men to know his hand and his power and that his name is Jehovah.