What a hollow speech by a hollow man, whose handlers thought it a good idea to have him throw in a biblical verse in order to cement Old Joe’s faith and probity, as if he ever had either.
As upcountrybananaland noted, he quoted Isaiah 6:8 in which Isaiah - after realizing and repenting for his own evil-doing – volunteers to be the Lord’s messenger to his own evil country filled with sin and corruption:
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” And I said: “Here am I. Send me!
What Biden did not reference was Isaiah 6:9-13:
And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged, until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
Isaiah is under no illusion; he is told that delivering the message to a judicially blind and spiritually bankrupt nation would be met by ears that did not hear and eyes that did not see. A nation with a heart so hardened they are unable to change.
Even if you are not a believer you might wish to pray that there is a God who will forgive the sinful nation we’ve become and cast his wrath instead on one that is an even greater evil. Pray that despite the wickedness embedded in our country the Lord in His wisdom decides to smite our enemies and give us one more chance to repent.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. - Proverbs 29:2
And now, for a bit of levity in a decidedly non-light situation, I offer this vintage Trump in response to Biden blaming him for the current Afghanistan fiasco:
"Everybody is always blaming me for everything." Donald Trump ~ Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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