WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.330 Day 200 and 53 00:00:04.725 --> 00:00:09.825 what sorrow awaits the proud city of Samaria, the glorious 00:00:09.825 --> 00:00:11.835 crown of the drunks of Israel. 00:00:12.465 --> 00:00:15.855 It sits at the head of a fertile valley, but its glorious 00:00:15.855 --> 00:00:17.895 beauty will fade like a flower. 00:00:18.405 --> 00:00:21.945 It is the pride of a people brought down by wine. 00:00:22.545 --> 00:00:25.635 For the Lord will send a mighty army against it. 00:00:26.565 --> 00:00:31.185 A mighty hailstorm and a torrential rain, they will burst upon it like a 00:00:31.185 --> 00:00:33.975 surging flood and smash it to the ground. 00:00:34.785 --> 00:00:40.635 The proud city of Samaria, the glorious crown of the drunks of Israel will 00:00:40.635 --> 00:00:42.855 be trampled beneath its enemy's feet. 00:00:43.785 --> 00:00:47.595 It sits at the head of a fertile valley, but its glorious 00:00:47.595 --> 00:00:49.605 beauty will fade like a flower. 00:00:50.385 --> 00:00:55.815 Whoever sees it will snatch it up as an early fig is quickly picked and eaten. 00:00:56.835 --> 00:01:02.715 Then at last, the Lord of Heaven's armies will himself be Israel's glorious crown. 00:01:03.255 --> 00:01:06.885 He will be the pride and joy of the remnant of his people. 00:01:07.185 --> 00:01:10.965 He will give a longing for justice to their judges. 00:01:11.535 --> 00:01:15.315 He will give great courage to their warriors who stand at the gates. 00:01:16.425 --> 00:01:16.875 Now. 00:01:16.875 --> 00:01:22.965 However, Israel is led by drunks who reel with wine and stagger with alcohol. 00:01:23.325 --> 00:01:28.125 The priests and prophets stagger with alcohol and lose themselves in wine. 00:01:28.635 --> 00:01:32.925 They reel when they see visions and stagger as they render decisions. 00:01:33.615 --> 00:01:35.535 Their tables are covered with vomit. 00:01:35.835 --> 00:01:37.305 Filth is everywhere. 00:01:37.995 --> 00:01:40.185 Who does the Lord think we are? 00:01:40.245 --> 00:01:43.785 They ask, why does he speak to us like this? 00:01:44.655 --> 00:01:47.955 Are we little children just recently weaned? 00:01:48.465 --> 00:01:51.135 He tells us everything over and over. 00:01:51.285 --> 00:01:57.135 One line at a time, one line at a time, a little here and a little there. 00:01:58.275 --> 00:02:02.805 So now God will have to speak to his people through foreign oppressors 00:02:03.015 --> 00:02:04.965 who speak a strange language. 00:02:05.745 --> 00:02:09.045 God has told his people, here is a place of rest. 00:02:09.375 --> 00:02:10.935 Let the weary rest here. 00:02:11.265 --> 00:02:13.005 This is a place of quiet rest. 00:02:13.935 --> 00:02:18.825 They would not listen, so the Lord will spell out his message for them again. 00:02:19.245 --> 00:02:25.425 One line at a time, one line at a time, a little here and a little there, 00:02:25.875 --> 00:02:28.035 so that they will stumble and fall. 00:02:28.815 --> 00:02:31.845 They will be injured, trapped, and captured. 00:02:33.075 --> 00:02:36.465 Therefore, listen to this message from the Lord. 00:02:36.645 --> 00:02:38.925 You scoffing rulers in Jerusalem. 00:02:39.585 --> 00:02:40.365 You boast. 00:02:40.575 --> 00:02:45.585 We have struck a bargain to cheat death and have made a deal to dodge the grave. 00:02:45.915 --> 00:02:50.145 The coming destruction can never touch us for we have built a strong 00:02:50.145 --> 00:02:52.665 refuge, made of lies and deception. 00:02:53.775 --> 00:02:56.805 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:02:57.495 --> 00:03:04.125 Look, I am placing a foundation stone in Jerusalem, a firm and tested stone. 00:03:04.695 --> 00:03:07.815 It is a precious cornerstone that is safe to build on. 00:03:08.490 --> 00:03:11.070 Whoever believes need never be shaken. 00:03:11.820 --> 00:03:15.420 I will test you with the measuring line of justice and 00:03:15.420 --> 00:03:17.310 the plum line of righteousness. 00:03:17.940 --> 00:03:22.440 Since your refuge is made of lies, a hailstorm will knock it down. 00:03:23.100 --> 00:03:27.060 Since it is made of deception, a flood will sweep it away. 00:03:28.200 --> 00:03:32.640 I will cancel the bargain you made to cheat death, and I will overturn 00:03:32.640 --> 00:03:34.500 your deal to dodge the grave. 00:03:35.445 --> 00:03:39.015 When the terrible enemy sweeps through, you will be trampled 00:03:39.015 --> 00:03:41.805 into the ground again and again. 00:03:41.805 --> 00:03:46.215 That flood will come morning after morning, day and night 00:03:46.335 --> 00:03:47.955 until you are carried away. 00:03:49.035 --> 00:03:51.675 This message will bring terror to your people. 00:03:52.305 --> 00:03:55.335 The bed you have made is too short to lie on. 00:03:55.845 --> 00:03:58.275 The blankets are too narrow to cover you. 00:03:58.785 --> 00:04:02.865 The Lord will come as he did against the Philistines at Mount Perm. 00:04:03.900 --> 00:04:05.340 And against the Amorites. 00:04:05.370 --> 00:04:09.090 At Gibeon, he will come to do a strange thing. 00:04:09.420 --> 00:04:13.380 He will come to do an unusual deeded for the Lord. 00:04:13.740 --> 00:04:17.280 The Lord of heaven's armies has plainly said that he is 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:19.710 determined to crush the whole land. 00:04:20.010 --> 00:04:23.910 So scoff, no more or your punishment will be even greater. 00:04:24.990 --> 00:04:28.590 Listen to me listen and pay close attention. 00:04:29.340 --> 00:04:32.430 Does a farmer always plow and never sow? 00:04:33.135 --> 00:04:36.645 Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting? 00:04:37.305 --> 00:04:40.035 Does he not finely plant his seeds? 00:04:40.455 --> 00:04:46.095 Black, common, common wheat, barley, and er wheat, each in its proper 00:04:46.095 --> 00:04:48.465 way and each in its proper place. 00:04:49.125 --> 00:04:53.355 The farmer knows just what to do for God has given him understanding. 00:04:53.955 --> 00:04:57.495 A heavy sledge is never used to thresh black common. 00:04:57.825 --> 00:05:00.315 Rather, it is beaten with a light stick. 00:05:01.065 --> 00:05:03.585 A threshing wheel is never rolled on coming. 00:05:03.975 --> 00:05:10.155 Instead, it is beaten lightly with a flail grain for bread is easily crushed 00:05:10.245 --> 00:05:12.285 so he doesn't keep on pounding it. 00:05:12.825 --> 00:05:16.845 He threshes it under the wheels of a cart, but he doesn't pulverize it. 00:05:17.445 --> 00:05:20.865 The Lord of Heaven's armies is a wonderful teacher and he 00:05:20.865 --> 00:05:22.665 gives the farmer great wisdom. 00:05:23.805 --> 00:05:27.195 What sorrow awaits Ariel, the city of David. 00:05:27.690 --> 00:05:32.910 Year after year, you celebrate your feasts, yet I will bring disaster upon you 00:05:33.420 --> 00:05:39.060 and there will be much weeping and sorrow for Jerusalem will become what her name, 00:05:39.060 --> 00:05:42.330 Ariel means, an altar covered with blood. 00:05:42.960 --> 00:05:47.310 I will be your enemy surrounding Jerusalem and attacking its walls. 00:05:47.640 --> 00:05:50.370 I will build siege towers and destroy it. 00:05:51.180 --> 00:05:52.380 Then deep from the earth. 00:05:52.380 --> 00:05:54.900 You will speak from low in the dust. 00:05:54.900 --> 00:05:56.100 Your words will come. 00:05:56.625 --> 00:06:01.485 Your voice will whisper from the ground like a ghost conjured up from the grave, 00:06:02.535 --> 00:06:07.485 but suddenly your ruthless enemies will be crushed like the finest of dust. 00:06:08.175 --> 00:06:11.985 Your many attackers will be driven away like chaff before the wind. 00:06:12.495 --> 00:06:17.925 Suddenly in an instant, I, the Lord of heaven's armies will act for 00:06:17.925 --> 00:06:22.515 you with thunder and earthquake and great noise with whirlwind 00:06:22.575 --> 00:06:24.405 and storm and consuming fire. 00:06:25.635 --> 00:06:29.565 All the nations fighting against Jerusalem will vanish like a dream. 00:06:30.465 --> 00:06:34.545 Those who are attacking her walls will vanish like a vision in the night. 00:06:35.295 --> 00:06:39.255 A hungry person dreams of eating, but wakes up still hungry. 00:06:39.915 --> 00:06:43.545 A thirsty person, dreams of drinking, but is still faint 00:06:43.545 --> 00:06:45.435 from thirst when morning comes. 00:06:46.275 --> 00:06:50.505 So it will be with your enemies with those who attack Mount Zion. 00:06:51.675 --> 00:06:53.745 Are you amazed and incredulous? 00:06:54.135 --> 00:06:57.285 Don't you believe it, then go ahead and be blind. 00:06:57.765 --> 00:07:00.135 You are stupid, but not from wine. 00:07:00.585 --> 00:07:03.195 You stagger, but not from liquor. 00:07:03.855 --> 00:07:07.335 For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. 00:07:07.845 --> 00:07:10.995 He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries. 00:07:11.985 --> 00:07:16.155 All the future events in this vision are like a sealed book to them. 00:07:16.815 --> 00:07:20.685 When you give it to those who can read, they will say, we can't 00:07:20.685 --> 00:07:22.155 read it because it is sealed. 00:07:22.980 --> 00:07:27.570 When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, we don't know how to read. 00:07:28.590 --> 00:07:32.430 And so the Lord says, these people say they are mine. 00:07:32.970 --> 00:07:36.630 They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, 00:07:37.050 --> 00:07:41.580 and their worship of me is nothing but manmade rules learned by rote. 00:07:42.090 --> 00:07:47.340 Because of this, I will once again astound these hypocrites with amazing wonders. 00:07:48.060 --> 00:07:50.070 The wisdom of the wise will pass away. 00:07:50.865 --> 00:07:54.015 The intelligence of the intelligent will disappear. 00:07:55.215 --> 00:07:59.055 What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the 00:07:59.055 --> 00:08:04.275 Lord who do their evil deeds in the dark, the Lord can't see us. 00:08:04.335 --> 00:08:07.035 They say he doesn't know what's going on. 00:08:07.755 --> 00:08:09.465 How foolish can you be? 00:08:10.215 --> 00:08:13.905 He is the potter and he is certainly greater than you. 00:08:13.905 --> 00:08:19.755 The clay should The created thing say of the one who made it, he didn't make me. 00:08:20.670 --> 00:08:26.160 Does a jar ever say, the potter who made me is stupid Soon 00:08:26.460 --> 00:08:28.230 and it will not be very long. 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:33.060 The forests of Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field 00:08:33.060 --> 00:08:36.210 will yield bountiful crops in that day. 00:08:36.210 --> 00:08:40.110 The deaf will hear words read from a book, and the blind will see 00:08:40.110 --> 00:08:41.730 through the gloom and darkness. 00:08:42.210 --> 00:08:45.390 The humble will be filled with fresh joy from the Lord. 00:08:46.020 --> 00:08:48.960 The poor will rejoice in the holy one of Israel. 00:08:49.800 --> 00:08:51.300 The scoffer will be gone. 00:08:51.810 --> 00:08:56.520 The arrogant will disappear, and those who plot evil will be killed. 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:01.440 Those who convict the innocent by their false testimony will disappear. 00:09:02.310 --> 00:09:07.140 A similar fate awaits those who use trickery to pervert justice and who 00:09:07.140 --> 00:09:09.300 tell lies to destroy the innocent. 00:09:10.500 --> 00:09:15.210 That is why the Lord who redeemed Abraham says to the people of Israel, 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:21.210 My people will no longer be ashamed or turn pale with fear for when 00:09:21.210 --> 00:09:25.320 they see their many children and all the blessings I have given them. 00:09:25.710 --> 00:09:29.100 They will recognize the holiness of the holy one of Jacob. 00:09:29.700 --> 00:09:32.340 They will stand in awe of the God of Israel. 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:38.310 Then the wayward will gain understanding and complainers will accept instruction. 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:43.920 What sorrow awaits my rebellious children says the Lord. 00:09:44.790 --> 00:09:47.370 You make plans that are contrary to mine. 00:09:47.730 --> 00:09:52.200 You make alliances not directed by my spirit, thus piling up your 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:54.960 sins for without consulting me. 00:09:55.170 --> 00:09:57.300 You have gone down to Egypt for help. 00:09:57.780 --> 00:10:00.300 You have put your trust in Pharaoh's protection. 00:10:00.630 --> 00:10:05.310 You have tried to hide in his shade, but by trusting Pharaoh, you will 00:10:05.310 --> 00:10:10.050 be humiliated and by depending on him, you will be disgraced. 00:10:10.545 --> 00:10:15.495 For though his power extends to zone and his officials have arrived in hees, 00:10:15.825 --> 00:10:18.075 all who trust in him will be ashamed. 00:10:18.585 --> 00:10:19.725 He will not help you. 00:10:20.145 --> 00:10:22.305 Instead, he will disgrace you. 00:10:23.445 --> 00:10:27.015 This message came to me concerning the animals in the negative. 00:10:27.335 --> 00:10:32.535 The caravan moves slowly across the terrible desert to Egypt. 00:10:33.135 --> 00:10:37.245 Donkeys weighed down with riches and camels loaded with treasure. 00:10:37.875 --> 00:10:40.065 All to pay for Egypt's protection. 00:10:40.935 --> 00:10:45.795 They travel through the wilderness, a place of lioness and lions, a place 00:10:45.795 --> 00:10:48.285 where vipers and poisonous snakes live. 00:10:48.825 --> 00:10:52.455 All this and Egypt will give you nothing in return. 00:10:52.905 --> 00:10:55.275 Egypt's promises are worthless. 00:10:55.785 --> 00:10:59.505 Therefore, I call her Rahab the harmless dragon. 00:11:00.735 --> 00:11:02.805 Now go and write down these words. 00:11:03.675 --> 00:11:04.725 Write them in a book. 00:11:05.160 --> 00:11:09.030 They will stand until the end of time as a witness that these people are 00:11:09.030 --> 00:11:13.560 stubborn rebels who refuse to pay attention to the Lord's instructions, 00:11:14.400 --> 00:11:17.400 they tell the seers, stop seeing visions. 00:11:18.090 --> 00:11:21.030 They tell the prophets, don't tell us what is right. 00:11:21.300 --> 00:11:22.710 Tell us nice things. 00:11:22.950 --> 00:11:24.270 Tell us lies. 00:11:24.690 --> 00:11:26.220 Forget all this gloom. 00:11:26.790 --> 00:11:28.200 Get off your narrow path. 00:11:28.560 --> 00:11:31.110 Stop telling us about your holy one of Israel. 00:11:32.580 --> 00:11:37.950 This is the reply of the holy one of Israel because you despise 00:11:37.950 --> 00:11:39.570 what I tell you and trust. 00:11:39.570 --> 00:11:46.110 Instead in oppression and lies, calamity will come upon you suddenly like a bulging 00:11:46.115 --> 00:11:51.810 wall that bursts and falls in an instant, it will collapse and come crashing down. 00:11:52.230 --> 00:11:56.850 You will be smashed like a piece of pottery shattered so completely that 00:11:56.850 --> 00:12:00.720 there won't be a piece big enough to carry coals from a fireplace 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:02.820 or a little water from the well. 00:12:03.810 --> 00:12:10.290 This is what the sovereign Lord, the holy one of Israel says, only in returning to 00:12:10.290 --> 00:12:16.950 me and resting in me will you be saved in quietness and confidence is your 00:12:16.950 --> 00:12:19.410 strength, but you would have none of it. 00:12:20.160 --> 00:12:21.540 You said no. 00:12:21.570 --> 00:12:23.370 We will get our help from Egypt. 00:12:23.970 --> 00:12:26.880 They will give us swift horses for riding into battle. 00:12:27.630 --> 00:12:31.380 But the only swiftness you are going to see is the swiftness 00:12:31.380 --> 00:12:32.970 of your enemies chasing you. 00:12:33.810 --> 00:12:36.120 One of them will chase a thousand of you. 00:12:36.780 --> 00:12:39.240 Five of them will make all of you flee. 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:44.100 You will be left like a lonely flagpole on a hill or a tattered 00:12:44.100 --> 00:12:45.930 banner on a distant mountaintop. 00:12:47.100 --> 00:12:51.150 So the Lord must wait for you to come to him so he can show 00:12:51.150 --> 00:12:52.920 you his love and compassion. 00:12:53.670 --> 00:12:55.470 For the Lord is a faithful God. 00:12:56.130 --> 00:12:58.350 Blessed are those who wait for his help. 00:12:59.580 --> 00:13:04.500 Oh, people of Zion who live in Jerusalem, you will weave no more. 00:13:05.130 --> 00:13:07.500 He will be gracious if you ask for help. 00:13:08.130 --> 00:13:10.680 He will surely respond to the sound of your cries. 00:13:11.805 --> 00:13:16.815 Though the Lord gave you adversity for food and suffering for drink, he 00:13:16.815 --> 00:13:19.005 will still be with you to teach you. 00:13:19.485 --> 00:13:21.975 You will see your teacher with your own eyes. 00:13:22.275 --> 00:13:25.845 Your own ears will hear him right behind you. 00:13:25.845 --> 00:13:29.265 A voice will say, this is the way you should go, whether 00:13:29.265 --> 00:13:30.855 to the right or to the left. 00:13:31.545 --> 00:13:36.285 Then you will destroy all your silver idols and your precious gold images. 00:13:37.140 --> 00:13:41.550 You will throw them out like filthy rags, saying to them, good riddance. 00:13:42.780 --> 00:13:47.430 Then the Lord will bless you with rain at planting time, there will 00:13:47.435 --> 00:13:51.810 be wonderful harvests and plenty of pasture land for your livestock. 00:13:52.470 --> 00:13:55.950 The oxen and donkeys that till the ground will eat good grain. 00:13:56.250 --> 00:13:58.200 It's chaff blown away by the wind. 00:13:58.950 --> 00:14:02.730 In that day when your enemies are slaughtered and the towers fall, 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:06.660 there will be streams of water flowing down every mountain and hill. 00:14:07.380 --> 00:14:12.150 The moon will be as bright as the sun, and the sun will be seven times brighter 00:14:12.660 --> 00:14:14.790 like the light of seven days in one. 00:14:15.570 --> 00:14:19.350 So it will be when the Lord begins to heal his people and 00:14:19.350 --> 00:14:21.030 cure the wounds he gave them. 00:14:22.170 --> 00:14:26.670 Look, the Lord is coming from far away burning with anger. 00:14:27.225 --> 00:14:29.745 Surrounded by thick rising smoke. 00:14:30.465 --> 00:14:32.475 His lips are filled with fury. 00:14:32.835 --> 00:14:35.055 His words consume like fire. 00:14:35.475 --> 00:14:39.795 His hot breath pours out like a flood up to the neck of his enemies. 00:14:40.395 --> 00:14:43.695 He will sift out the proud nations for destruction. 00:14:44.025 --> 00:14:47.145 He will bridle them and lead them away to ruin. 00:14:48.315 --> 00:14:53.655 But the people of God will sing a song of joy like the songs at the Holy Festivals. 00:14:54.435 --> 00:14:59.025 You will be filled with joy as when a flutist leads a group of pilgrims to 00:14:59.025 --> 00:15:04.755 Jerusalem, the mountain of the Lord to the Rock of Israel, and the Lord 00:15:04.760 --> 00:15:07.095 will make his majestic voice heard. 00:15:07.545 --> 00:15:10.125 He will display the strength of his mighty arm. 00:15:10.725 --> 00:15:13.155 It will descend with devouring flames. 00:15:13.365 --> 00:15:19.305 With bursts, thunderstorms, and huge hailstones at the Lord's command, 00:15:19.545 --> 00:15:21.285 the Assyrians will be shattered. 00:15:21.975 --> 00:15:24.645 He will strike them down with his royal scepter. 00:15:25.455 --> 00:15:30.825 And as the Lord strikes them with his rod of punishment, his people will celebrate. 00:15:30.825 --> 00:15:35.175 With tambourines and harps lifting his mighty arm, he 00:15:35.175 --> 00:15:37.935 will fight the Assyrians tophi. 00:15:38.325 --> 00:15:42.705 The place of burning has long been ready for the Assyrian king. 00:15:43.125 --> 00:15:45.315 The pyre is piled high with wood. 00:15:45.885 --> 00:15:50.805 The breath of the Lord like fire from a volcano will set it ablaze. 00:15:52.215 --> 00:15:57.855 What sorrow awaits those who look to Egypt for help trusting their horses, 00:15:57.885 --> 00:16:02.865 chariots and charioteers, and depending on the strength of human armies, 00:16:02.870 --> 00:16:08.295 instead of looking to the Lord, the holy one of Israel, in his wisdom, 00:16:08.595 --> 00:16:10.875 the Lord will send great disaster. 00:16:11.505 --> 00:16:13.095 He will not change his mind. 00:16:13.755 --> 00:16:17.175 He will rise against the wicked and against their helpers. 00:16:17.895 --> 00:16:20.955 For these Egyptians are mere humans, not God. 00:16:21.585 --> 00:16:24.975 Their horses are puny, flesh, not mighty spirits. 00:16:25.695 --> 00:16:30.345 When the Lord raises his fist against them, those who help will stumble 00:16:30.555 --> 00:16:32.535 and those being helped will fall. 00:16:33.045 --> 00:16:35.685 They will all fall down and die together. 00:16:36.735 --> 00:16:38.505 But this is what the Lord has told me. 00:16:39.810 --> 00:16:44.280 When a strong young lion stands growling over a sheep it has killed, 00:16:44.670 --> 00:16:48.870 it is not frightened by the shouts and noise of a whole crowd of shepherds. 00:16:49.500 --> 00:16:52.860 In the same way, the Lord of heaven's armies will come 00:16:52.865 --> 00:16:54.630 down and fight on Mount Zion. 00:16:55.410 --> 00:16:59.760 The Lord of heaven's armies will hover over Jerusalem and protect it 00:16:59.790 --> 00:17:01.890 like a bird, protecting its nest. 00:17:02.670 --> 00:17:04.800 He will defend and save the city. 00:17:05.130 --> 00:17:07.260 He will pass over it and rescue it. 00:17:08.550 --> 00:17:13.770 Though you are such wicked rebels, my people come and return to the Lord. 00:17:14.520 --> 00:17:18.270 I know the glorious day will come when each of you will throw away 00:17:18.270 --> 00:17:22.800 the gold idols and silver images your sinful hands have made. 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:28.200 The Assyrians will be destroyed, but not by the swords of men. 00:17:28.860 --> 00:17:32.850 The sword of God will strike them and they will panic and flee. 00:17:33.540 --> 00:17:37.170 The strong young Assyrians will be taken away as captives. 00:17:37.845 --> 00:17:42.045 Even the strongest will quake with terror and princes will flee when 00:17:42.045 --> 00:17:47.025 they see your battle flags says the Lord whose fire burns in Zion, 00:17:47.235 --> 00:17:54.405 whose flame blazes from Jerusalem, look, a righteous king is coming and 00:17:54.405 --> 00:17:56.266 honest princes will rule under him. 00:17:57.195 --> 00:18:01.545 Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm. 00:18:02.385 --> 00:18:07.185 Streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a parched 00:18:07.185 --> 00:18:13.485 land, then everyone who has eyes will be able to see the truth and everyone 00:18:13.485 --> 00:18:15.735 who has ears will be able to hear it. 00:18:16.605 --> 00:18:19.935 Even the hotheads will be full of sense and understanding. 00:18:20.745 --> 00:18:24.885 Those who stammer will speak out plainly in that day. 00:18:24.885 --> 00:18:27.405 Ungodly fools will not be heroes. 00:18:27.765 --> 00:18:29.715 Scoundrels will not be respected. 00:18:30.345 --> 00:18:33.735 For fools speak foolishness and make evil plans. 00:18:34.065 --> 00:18:38.175 They practice ungodliness and spread false teachings about the Lord. 00:18:38.955 --> 00:18:43.455 They deprive the hungry of food and give no water to the thirsty. 00:18:44.235 --> 00:18:46.785 The smooth tricks of scoundrels are evil. 00:18:47.325 --> 00:18:48.975 They plot crooked schemes. 00:18:48.975 --> 00:18:53.925 They lie to convict the poor even when the cause of the poor is just. 00:18:54.945 --> 00:18:58.605 Generous people plan to do what is generous and they 00:18:58.605 --> 00:19:00.525 stand firm in their generosity. 00:19:01.605 --> 00:19:07.845 Listen, you women who lie around in ease, listen to me, you who are so smug 00:19:08.445 --> 00:19:12.945 in a short time, just a little more than a year, you careless ones will 00:19:12.945 --> 00:19:16.035 suddenly begin to care for your fruit. 00:19:16.035 --> 00:19:19.485 Crops will fail and the harvest will never take place. 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:22.350 Tremble you women of ease. 00:19:22.710 --> 00:19:27.330 Throw off your complacency, strip off your pretty clothes and put 00:19:27.330 --> 00:19:29.280 on burlap to show your grief. 00:19:29.790 --> 00:19:34.230 Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms and your fruitful grape 00:19:34.230 --> 00:19:37.350 vines for your land will be overgrown. 00:19:37.350 --> 00:19:42.660 With thorns and briars, your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone. 00:19:43.110 --> 00:19:46.260 The palace and the city will be deserted and busy. 00:19:46.260 --> 00:19:47.610 Towns will be empty. 00:19:48.405 --> 00:19:53.055 Wild donkeys will frolic and flocks will graze in the empty forts and 00:19:53.055 --> 00:19:57.705 watchtowers until at last the spirit is poured out on us from heaven. 00:19:58.605 --> 00:20:02.625 Then the wilderness will become a fertile field, and the fertile 00:20:02.630 --> 00:20:04.935 field will yield bountiful crops. 00:20:06.045 --> 00:20:10.635 Justice will rule in the wilderness and righteousness in the fertile field. 00:20:11.730 --> 00:20:13.800 This righteousness will bring peace. 00:20:14.070 --> 00:20:17.820 Yes, it will bring quietness and confidence forever. 00:20:18.330 --> 00:20:22.110 My people will live in safety quietly at home. 00:20:22.590 --> 00:20:24.000 They will be at rest. 00:20:24.510 --> 00:20:29.880 Even if the forest should be destroyed and the city torn down, the Lord will greatly 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:32.880 bless his people wherever they plant. 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:35.370 Seed bountiful crops will spring up. 00:20:36.030 --> 00:20:38.580 Their cattle and donkeys will graze freely. 00:20:39.735 --> 00:20:41.505 What sorrow awaits you. 00:20:41.505 --> 00:20:45.555 Assyrians who have destroyed others but have never been destroyed 00:20:45.555 --> 00:20:49.995 yourselves, you betray others, but you have never been betrayed. 00:20:50.805 --> 00:20:54.165 When you are done destroying, you will be destroyed. 00:20:54.765 --> 00:20:58.065 When you are done betraying, you will be betrayed. 00:20:58.905 --> 00:21:03.375 But Lord be merciful to us for we have waited for you. 00:21:04.155 --> 00:21:08.355 Be our strong arm each day and our salvation in times of trouble. 00:21:09.280 --> 00:21:12.825 The enemy runs at the sound of your voice when you stand up. 00:21:13.065 --> 00:21:19.425 The nations flee just as caterpillars and locusts strip the fields and vines so the 00:21:19.425 --> 00:21:21.975 fallen army of Assyria will be stripped. 00:21:22.995 --> 00:21:28.005 Though the Lord is very great and lives in heaven, he will make Jerusalem his home 00:21:28.005 --> 00:21:31.425 of justice and righteousness in that day. 00:21:31.725 --> 00:21:35.715 He will be your sure foundation, providing a rich store of 00:21:35.715 --> 00:21:38.085 salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. 00:21:38.685 --> 00:21:40.935 The fear of the Lord will be your treasure. 00:21:41.955 --> 00:21:44.775 But now your brave warriors weep in public. 00:21:45.015 --> 00:21:48.345 Your ambassadors of peace cry in bitter disappointment. 00:21:48.885 --> 00:21:50.265 Your roads are deserted. 00:21:50.445 --> 00:21:52.035 No one travels them anymore. 00:21:52.755 --> 00:21:56.385 The Assyrians have broken their peace treaty and care nothing for the 00:21:56.385 --> 00:21:58.605 promises they made before witnesses. 00:21:59.295 --> 00:22:00.885 They have no respect for anyone. 00:22:01.725 --> 00:22:06.375 The land of Israel wilts in mourning Lebanon withers with shame. 00:22:07.020 --> 00:22:09.600 The plane of Sharon is now a wilderness. 00:22:10.110 --> 00:22:16.740 Basian and caramel have been plundered, but the Lord says, now I will stand up. 00:22:17.310 --> 00:22:22.800 Now I will show my power, and might you Assyrians produce nothing but 00:22:22.805 --> 00:22:27.810 dry grass and stubble your own breath will turn to fire and consume you. 00:22:28.530 --> 00:22:32.400 Your people will be burned up completely like thorn bushes, 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:34.320 cut down and tossed in a fire. 00:22:34.950 --> 00:22:36.720 Listen to what I have done. 00:22:36.900 --> 00:22:43.020 You nations far away and you that are near acknowledge my might the 00:22:43.020 --> 00:22:48.870 sinners in Jerusalem shake with fear, terror, seizes, the godless who 00:22:48.870 --> 00:22:51.240 can live with this devouring fire. 00:22:51.330 --> 00:22:51.990 They cry. 00:22:52.380 --> 00:22:55.590 Who can survive this all consuming fire? 00:22:56.280 --> 00:23:02.160 Those who are honest and fair, who refuse to profit by fraud, who stay far away 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:07.260 from bribes, who refuse to listen to those who plot murder, who shut their 00:23:07.265 --> 00:23:12.540 eyes to all enticement to do wrong, these are the ones who will dwell on high. 00:23:13.230 --> 00:23:16.110 The rocks of the mountains will be their fortress. 00:23:16.500 --> 00:23:20.730 Food will be supplied to them, and they will have water in abundance. 00:23:21.780 --> 00:23:26.730 Your eyes will see the king in all his splendor, and you will see a land 00:23:26.730 --> 00:23:28.560 that stretches into the distance. 00:23:29.280 --> 00:23:34.200 You will think back to this time of terror asking, where are the Assyrian 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:36.690 officers who counted our towers? 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:41.490 Where are the bookkeepers who recorded the plunder taken from our fallen city? 00:23:42.090 --> 00:23:45.600 You will no longer see these fierce, violent people with 00:23:45.600 --> 00:23:47.640 their strange unknown language. 00:23:48.675 --> 00:23:52.635 Instead, you will see Zion as a place of holy festivals. 00:23:53.385 --> 00:23:56.835 You will see Jerusalem a city quiet and secure. 00:23:57.315 --> 00:24:02.115 It will be like a tent whose ropes are taught and whose stakes are firmly fixed. 00:24:02.715 --> 00:24:04.545 The Lord will be our mighty one. 00:24:04.965 --> 00:24:09.195 He will be like a wide river of protection that no enemy can cross, 00:24:09.495 --> 00:24:11.865 that no enemy ship can sail upon. 00:24:12.525 --> 00:24:16.785 For the Lord is our judge, our law giver, and our king. 00:24:17.460 --> 00:24:19.530 He will care for us and save us. 00:24:20.250 --> 00:24:21.330 The enemy's sail. 00:24:21.330 --> 00:24:24.960 Hang loose on broken mast with useless tackle. 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:28.290 Their treasure will be divided by the people of God. 00:24:28.980 --> 00:24:30.900 Even the lame will take their share. 00:24:31.710 --> 00:24:36.210 The people of Israel will no longer say we are sick and helpless. 00:24:36.690 --> 00:24:39.330 For the Lord will forgive their sins. 00:24:41.940 --> 00:24:44.790 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:24:44.940 --> 00:24:46.140 Thank you for joining us.