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 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 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, 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 289 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. He makes these mockers unable to understand his word.

And 2813 says God is doing this so that they may go and fall backward and be

broken and snared and taken. This is a just response to them, but it's definitely tough to read and

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