God or Assyria

"Faced with the great political and military upheavals of their time, how easily the people focused upon the various human machinations as the source of their troubles and as that which needed their primary attention. Similarly, faced with a myriad of choices, none of them very good, how easily the people resorted to magical means of divination to learn the future and to find guidance. Isaiah's response is that given God's terrifying holiness, his written revelation, and his desires to give his people light, dependence upon anything other than him is sheer insanity." - John Oswalt