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

Today we launched into a six chapter section referred to as the six woes or the six laments.

And the overarching theme of all six statements is that man shouldn't rely on his own devices.

We're far too short-sighted and even those of us who know and love God often operate out

of our natural side rather than our spiritual side.

It reminds me of what Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2 14.

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God for their folly to him.

And he's not able to understand them because they're spiritually discerned.

Each of these six statements usually opens with the word aw or woe.

We'll cover the first three today.

And in the first one Isaiah uses Israel's unfolding tragedy with the Syria as a warning sign

for the people of Judah.

He says both kingdoms have spent a little too much time with wine and not enough time with

the word.

And not just the political leaders but the religious leaders too.

You may recall, Hosea also called some of these guys out for their drunkenness in Hosea

7.5 so it was apparently a well-known issue.

If you're reading with your eyes, you saw that 28.9 through 10 is in quotes.

That's the leader's response to Isaiah's rebuke.

They mock him.

In fact, I thought there was a typo in one of the commentaries I was using because it

literally just said blah, blah, blah, blah for most of verse 10.

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