Well, that's twice now you have just been dismissive. Mariam was leprous as part of God's judgment on her for stirring up rebellion against Moses. It was the Lords "anger" that burned against them.
You are basically incapable of reading literature at the lowest level.
And it is a sowing reaping type of event. Mariam sowed rebellion against Moses and reaped judgment in the form of becoming leprous. A judgment obviously given by God in Numbers 12.
So we have Ezekiel talking about God sending famine and plague (which is a small part of the matter) and we have God making Mariam become leprous because of rebellion against Moses.
Then there is Hosea 6:1
Come, let us return to the LORD.
For He has torn us,
but He will heal us;
He has wounded
us,
but He will bandage us.
Hosea says Yahweh had "torn" Israel, but that He would eventually "heal" Israel. Now what is Yahweh going to "heal" Israel from? His own judgment against His people. A judgment HE Himself had pronounced:
Isaiah
6:9 He said, Go and tell these people:
Listen continually, but dont understand!
Look continually, but dont perceive!
6:10 Make the hearts of these people calloused;
make their ears deaf and their eyes blind!
Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.
God has judged His people and made them "blind" and "deaf". Later in Isaiah we find that God's judgment had taken effect:
29:9 You will be shocked and amazed!
You are totally blind!
They are drunk, but not because of wine;
they stagger, but not because of beer.
29:10 For the Lord has poured out on you
a strong urge to sleep deeply.
He has shut your eyes (the prophets),
and covered your heads (the seers).
The were blind and staggering like drunkards; and it was God's own judgment that caused it. Even though it was His judgment, He promises to reverse it:
35:4 Tell those who panic
Be strong! Do not fear!
Look, your God comes to avenge!
With divine retribution he comes to deliver you.
35:5 Then blind eyes will open,
deaf ears will hear.
35:6 Then the lame will leap like a deer,
the mute tongue will shout for joy;
for water will flow in the desert,
streams in the wilderness
Here God promises to reverse the conditions on His people (conditions rendered by Him in Isaiah 6). Here the judgments that will be reversed are "blindness", "deafness", and "lameness". Isaiah will continue to explain the condition of the people of God as in their condition due to His own decree. Isaiah does say that God's punishment will eventually be completed and reversed though:
40:2 Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell her
that her time of warfare is over,
that
her punishment is completed.
For the Lord has made her pay double for all her sins.
Isaiah still think though that the condition of Israel at the time is due to judgment from God and he will continue to allude to the blindness and deafness of God's people that was administered by God in Isaiah 6:
40:21 Do you not know?
Do you not hear?
Has it not been told to you since the very beginning?
Have you not understood from the time the earths foundations were made?
43:8 Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,
those who are deaf, even though they have ears!
If at this point there is still any doubt as to the cause of Israel's condition, Isaiah still thinks it was judgment from God:
43:27 The father of your nation sinned;
your spokesmen rebelled against me.
43:28 So I defiled your holy princes,
and handed Jacob over to destruction,
and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse.
And if there is any doubt that God wanted His people to learn from their situation:
48:10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have purified you in the furnace of misery.
48:17 This is what the Lord, your protector, says,
the Holy One of Israel:
I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you how to succeed,
who leads you in the way you should go.
And finally there is the most famous few verses from Isaiah where the Servant's actions result in a full reverseal of God's judgments:
53:4 But he lifted up our illnesses,
he carried our pain;
even though we thought he was being punished,
attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done.
53:5 He was wounded because of our rebellious deeds,
crushed because of our sins;
he endured punishment that made us well;
because of his wounds we have been healed.
To Isaiah, this is a reversal of judgment on God's people that was given by God Himself. And throught his book, Isaiah is writing that God's people are "ill", "blind", "deaf", "sick", "afflicted", and "in pain". But this isn't some random event, but rather it's a judgment by God on His own people. Like, Ezekiel and Hosea, Isaiah understands that God is AGAINST His people because of their rebellion. And just like Mariam in Numbers 12, it's God's judgment because of His people's rebellion.
FrankFaith, how you miss all this is beyond me.