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 Wows or The Six Lements,

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 Assyria

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 drness 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. That's how these people were responding to

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

his words, then that's how everything he says will sound to them.

Like, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It may sound funny, but this is one of the more challenging themes we see in Scripture,

that God is able to close people's ears to the truth.

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