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 1st

Corinthians 214. 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 ah 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, Josea also called some of these guys out for their drunkenness in

Josea 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. That's how these people were responding to Isaiah.

Isaiah. So God responds by telling them that since they're disregarding and

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