Pride leads to humiliation (9:8-12)
Outline: Decision: If God's people choose evil, his wrath works with unrelenting force (9:8-10:4)
repeated refrain: "for all this his anger has not turned away and his hand is stretched out still"
Israel's basic problem: "who say in pride and in arrogance of heart" - the people aren't comprehending the meaning of their adversity - they're laughing it off - they see their setbacks as opportunities to rebuild the past - but their self-exalting in the past is what go them into trouble in the first place! Winston Churchill: "how the great democracies triumphed and so were able to resume the follies which had so nearly cost them their life."
Adversaries of Rezin (King of Aram): the Assyrians - the Israelites had rebuilt their buildings and replanted their trees, and here come the Assyrians: God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble
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