Reading for May 24th

Read Isaiah 28.7-13. In 28.7-13: God cannot be mocked with impunity. It is unclear wheather this oracle is addressed to the reveiers in vv. 1-4, or whether it is a rebuke to a group of Jerusalem's leaders (Compare v. 14). The signs of excessare evident (v. 8) when they turn to mock the prophet and, by implication, God (vv. 9-10). These leaders accuse the prophet of treating them like little children (v.10). Instead God will teach them a lesson in the language of foreign invaders (v. 11). By rejecting and mocking the prophet's warnings (v. 12), and choosing rebellion against Assyria, they were playing with their own lives and those of the people and would pay the price (v. 13). Coments or Questions..