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

Most of what we've read in Isaiah has been God speaking or Isaiah speaking.

But today we enter a section that seems like it's the response of the people, a confession

recorded by Isaiah, or maybe he's speaking on their behalf,

or maybe it's a mingling of both.

They confess their sins to God and acknowledge that they felt the consequences of those sins.

Our sin has a way of making us feel distant from God.

And to make matters worse, ultimately Israel knows they can't fix what's broken in themselves

and it devastates them.

Have you ever felt this way?

Do you ever wonder when you'll live up to your idealized version of yourself?

The youth that never gets angry in traffic or yells at your kids or says a mean word to your spouse or struggles with addiction,

Israel can relate.

V verses 12 through 13 say,

our transgressions are multiplied before you and our sins testify against us.

For our transgressions are with us and we know our iniquities transgression and denying the Lord

and turning back from following our God.

But then verse 16 flips the script.

God shows up and the verse says,

Then his own arm brought him salvation and his righteousness upheld him. In other words, God

did for Israel what Israel couldn't do for themselves. God himself, God the son,

fulfilled what he required but no one could live up to.

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