25, 26. What wicked thinking by the Israelites does Isaiah expose in his third and fourth woes?

²⁵ Hear now Isaiah’s third and fourth woes: “Woe to those drawing error with ropes of untruth, and as with wagon cords sin;

²⁶ What a vivid picture this paints of practicers of sin! They are attached to sin the way draft animals are tied to wagons.

[Picture on page 83]

A sinner is attached to sin like a draft animal to a wagon