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Chad, we're here in Isaiah chapter 15. This is an oracle concerning Moab. We got through the first

four verses. And this one's a little bit weird because

it seems that bad things are going to be happening to Moab, and that God is bummed out about

it. So you almost have this language. You know, like, when Jesus does the seven woes in Matthew 23, and he does this,

he's just ripping up the Pharisees left, I mean, it's just brutal. It's just a savage take-down.

And at the very end of that, he says, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,

how long I would have desired to gather you under my wings.

The hen gathers her chicks, but you would not.

And he moves from this sort of like declaration of like just ferocious judgment to this sort of heartbrokenness.

I mean, the lament over Jerusalem isn't done in anger, but in heartbreak.

And you have some of that going on here, like where it's like, hey, this is bad news, and

I'm kind of upset about it.

Yeah, well, I think it puts into perspective that God's judgment is not spoken out of

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