Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we drop back in on Isaiah the Major Prophet, who opens with a love poem to the people of Israel and Judah.

In the poem, God is compared to a vinekeeper, and the Israelites are compared to wild

grapes. But in the Hebrew, the term is actually more like stinking things. Not so flattering,

and not exactly what God wants to grow in his garden. So God removes the protective hedge

around the vineyard, and the wild grapes are trampled. Then Isaiah goes on to highlightyard and the wild grapes are trampled.

Then Isaiah goes on to highlight six ways the wild grapes are stinky and pronounces woe over them.

First, he denounces the greedy landowners who push the poor out of the land.

God had established land allotment rules back in Numbers chapters 26 and 33. So Isaiah says,

their houses will become desolate. Second, he speaks woe over those whose lavish lives of excess and drunkenness lead them away from honoring God. Instead of being filled, they'll be famished.

And instead of eating, they'll be swallowed by the grave.

The remaining woes are strung together closely. Woe number three is spoken to people who mock

God and doubt his judgment is coming. They seek out sin. Woe number four is to the prideful

fool with no discernment or integrity distorting the truth.

Woe number five is for the arrogant, and the final woe,

woe number six, doubles down on the drunkenness mentioned in woe number two,

and adds to it the fact that they also rob people of justice.

Verse 24 tells us that these people have despised the word of God. So God

promises to send the nations as judgment on them. Do you remember how God used Israel to drive out

the wicked nations of Canaan when they first entered the promised land? And now he's using

those nations to drive Israel out of the same land because they've broken

their covenant with him. Then we move on to Isaiah 6, which is a stunning chapter. It's the

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