Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Yesterday we covered Woes Number 1, 2, and 3, and today we wrap up the final 3 of 6.

Today's reading ended on a dark note, but hopefully you'll be encouraged to know that tomorrow things brighten up a bit.

And we're not far off from the parts of Isaiah that deal with the new heavens and the new earth,

which are pretty amazing to read about.

We open today with a reinforced woe to Judah. Woe to those who go

down to Egypt. We've heard this one before. We know Judah is working on an alliance with

Egypt because Judah is afraid of Assyria so this is

clearly directed at Judah. God says they will seek help from Egypt but Egypt will

be rendered helpless themselves. They may have horses and chariots, but God has weapons Judah can't even

imagine. He can provide in ways that are supernatural, and he foretells a day when

they'll finally turn to him and destroy their idols.

And in that day a righteous king will reign.

Hopefully you've picked up on this by now, but anytime we see the future righteous king raining after the day of the Lord that points to Jesus.

Of course the people in Isaiah's day didn't know this.

They naturally assumed it would be an earthly king, but a good one to contrast all the bad ones they've experienced.

In that day, fools and scoundrels won't be exalted anymore, but for now they're still running rampant.

The fool and the scoundrel are two distinct people here.

32-6 describes the fool like this.

The Fool speaks folly and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord,

to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied and to deprive the thirsty of drink. And here's what verse 7 says about the

scoundrel. As for the scoundrel, his devices are evil. He plans wicked schemes

to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

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