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 --> 00:00:04.280 day 200 and 58 00:00:04.602 --> 00:00:06.072 a rise Jerusalem. 00:00:06.432 --> 00:00:08.982 Let your light shine for all to see. 00:00:09.432 --> 00:00:12.462 For the glory of the Lord rises to shine on you. 00:00:13.182 --> 00:00:16.842 Darkness as black as night covers all the nations of the earth. 00:00:17.382 --> 00:00:20.772 But the glory of the Lord rises and appears over you. 00:00:21.732 --> 00:00:23.892 All nations will come to your light. 00:00:24.312 --> 00:00:27.102 Mighty kings will come to see your radiance. 00:00:28.242 --> 00:00:31.782 Look and see for everyone is coming home. 00:00:32.502 --> 00:00:35.112 Your sons are coming from distant lands. 00:00:35.382 --> 00:00:37.572 Your little daughters will be carried home. 00:00:38.142 --> 00:00:43.422 Your eyes will shine and your heart will thrill with joy for merchants 00:00:43.427 --> 00:00:45.432 from around the world will come to you. 00:00:46.182 --> 00:00:48.372 They will bring you the wealth of many lands. 00:00:49.182 --> 00:00:52.572 Vast caravans of camels will converge on you. 00:00:53.082 --> 00:00:55.272 The camels of Midian and efa. 00:00:55.647 --> 00:00:59.127 The people of Sheba will bring gold and frankincense and 00:00:59.127 --> 00:01:00.807 will come worshiping the Lord. 00:01:01.467 --> 00:01:05.787 The flocks of Kitter will be given to you, and the rams of NABE 00:01:06.027 --> 00:01:07.647 will be brought for my altars. 00:01:08.187 --> 00:01:12.087 I will accept their offerings and I will make my temple glorious. 00:01:12.407 --> 00:01:14.397 And what do I see? 00:01:14.402 --> 00:01:18.687 Flying like clouds to Israel, like doves to their nests. 00:01:19.317 --> 00:01:24.117 They are ships from the ends of the earth, from lands that trust in me. 00:01:24.447 --> 00:01:28.617 Led by the great ships of Tarshish, they are bringing the people 00:01:28.617 --> 00:01:33.417 of Israel home from far away, carrying their silver and gold. 00:01:34.197 --> 00:01:39.357 They will honor the Lord your God, the holy one of Israel, for he has 00:01:39.357 --> 00:01:44.517 filled you with splendor, foreigners will come to rebuild your towns 00:01:44.817 --> 00:01:46.497 and their kings will serve you. 00:01:47.217 --> 00:01:51.297 For Though I have destroyed you in my anger, I will now have 00:01:51.297 --> 00:01:53.217 mercy on you through my grace. 00:01:54.012 --> 00:01:59.382 Your gates will stay open day and night to receive the wealth of many lands. 00:02:00.012 --> 00:02:04.032 The kings of the world will be led as captives in a victory procession. 00:02:04.512 --> 00:02:08.052 For the nations that refuse to serve you will be destroyed. 00:02:09.012 --> 00:02:11.382 The glory of Lebanon will be yours. 00:02:11.832 --> 00:02:17.232 The forests of Cyprus, fur and pine to beautify my sanctuary. 00:02:17.862 --> 00:02:19.932 My temple will be glorious. 00:02:20.442 --> 00:02:24.222 The descendants of your tormentors will come and bow before you. 00:02:24.702 --> 00:02:27.372 Those who despised you will kiss your feet. 00:02:27.732 --> 00:02:32.802 They will call you the city of the Lord and Zion of the holy one of Israel. 00:02:33.852 --> 00:02:38.592 Though you were once despised and hated with no one traveling through you, 00:02:39.102 --> 00:02:41.142 I will make you beautiful forever. 00:02:41.772 --> 00:02:43.752 A joy to all generations. 00:02:44.322 --> 00:02:48.642 Powerful kings and mighty nations will satisfy your every need. 00:02:49.062 --> 00:02:53.922 As though you were a child nursing at the breast of a queen, you will know at 00:02:53.922 --> 00:03:00.612 last that I, the Lord am your savior and your redeemer, the mighty one of Israel. 00:03:01.302 --> 00:03:06.942 I will exchange your bronze for gold, your iron for silver, your wood for 00:03:06.942 --> 00:03:09.342 bronze, and your stones for iron. 00:03:10.302 --> 00:03:13.062 I will make peace, your leader and righteousness. 00:03:13.062 --> 00:03:16.992 Your ruler violence will disappear from your land. 00:03:17.592 --> 00:03:20.802 The desolation and destruction of war will end. 00:03:21.492 --> 00:03:26.232 Salvation will surround you like city walls and praise will be on 00:03:26.232 --> 00:03:28.182 the lips of all who enter there. 00:03:29.232 --> 00:03:33.792 No longer will you need the sun to shine by day nor the moon to give 00:03:33.792 --> 00:03:36.132 its light by night for the Lord. 00:03:36.132 --> 00:03:41.532 Your God will be your everlasting light and your God will be your glory. 00:03:42.222 --> 00:03:46.302 Your son will never set, your moon will not go down. 00:03:47.367 --> 00:03:49.857 For the Lord will be your everlasting light. 00:03:50.367 --> 00:03:52.947 Your days of mourning will come to an end. 00:03:53.487 --> 00:03:55.677 All your people will be righteous. 00:03:55.977 --> 00:03:58.227 They will possess their land forever. 00:03:58.437 --> 00:04:03.807 For I will plant them there with my own hands in order to bring myself glory. 00:04:04.287 --> 00:04:10.017 The smallest family will become a thousand people and the tiniest group will become 00:04:10.017 --> 00:04:12.897 a mighty nation at the right time. 00:04:13.047 --> 00:04:15.567 I, the Lord will make it happen. 00:04:16.902 --> 00:04:21.822 The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed 00:04:21.822 --> 00:04:24.102 me to bring good news to the poor. 00:04:24.822 --> 00:04:28.722 He has sent me to comfort the broken hearted, and to proclaim 00:04:28.722 --> 00:04:32.712 that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. 00:04:33.342 --> 00:04:37.152 He has sent me to tell those who mourn, that the time of the Lord's 00:04:37.152 --> 00:04:42.912 favor has come, and with it the day of God's anger against their enemies. 00:04:43.587 --> 00:04:47.307 To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty 00:04:47.307 --> 00:04:49.737 for ashes, a joyous blessing. 00:04:49.737 --> 00:04:55.887 Instead of mourning festive praise instead of despair in their righteousness, 00:04:56.247 --> 00:05:00.717 they will be like great oaks that the Lord has planted for his own glory. 00:05:01.647 --> 00:05:06.537 They will rebuild the ancient ruins, repairing cities destroyed long ago. 00:05:07.107 --> 00:05:11.547 They will revive them though they have been deserted for many generations. 00:05:12.342 --> 00:05:14.352 Foreigners will be your servants. 00:05:14.832 --> 00:05:19.452 They will feed your flocks and plow your fields and tend your vineyards. 00:05:20.172 --> 00:05:24.432 You will be called priests of the Lord, ministers of our God. 00:05:25.302 --> 00:05:28.782 You will feed on the treasures of the nations and boast in their 00:05:28.782 --> 00:05:31.962 riches instead of shame and dishonor. 00:05:32.262 --> 00:05:34.692 You will enjoy a double share of honor. 00:05:35.517 --> 00:05:40.137 You'll possess a double portion of prosperity in your land and 00:05:40.137 --> 00:05:42.447 everlasting joy will be yours. 00:05:43.377 --> 00:05:46.077 For I the Lord, love, justice. 00:05:46.737 --> 00:05:48.987 I hate robbery and wrongdoing. 00:05:49.557 --> 00:05:53.577 I will faithfully reward my people for their suffering and make an 00:05:54.027 --> 00:05:55.647 everlasting covenant with them. 00:05:56.397 --> 00:06:00.507 Their descendants will be recognized and honored among the nations. 00:06:01.182 --> 00:06:03.522 Everyone will realize that they are a people. 00:06:03.522 --> 00:06:04.902 The Lord has blessed. 00:06:05.802 --> 00:06:10.692 I am overwhelmed with joy in the Lord, my God, for he has dressed me 00:06:10.692 --> 00:06:15.462 with the clothing of salvation and draped me in a robe of righteousness. 00:06:16.302 --> 00:06:21.222 I am like a bride groom, dressed for his wedding or a bride with her jewels. 00:06:22.002 --> 00:06:25.932 The sovereign Lord will show his justice to the nations of the world. 00:06:26.292 --> 00:06:27.592 Everyone will praise him. 00:06:28.557 --> 00:06:32.547 His righteousness will be like a garden in early spring with 00:06:32.547 --> 00:06:34.407 plants springing up everywhere. 00:06:35.757 --> 00:06:41.667 Because I love Zion, I will not keep still because my heart yearns for Jerusalem. 00:06:41.937 --> 00:06:43.527 I cannot remain silent. 00:06:44.277 --> 00:06:50.127 I will not stop praying for her until her righteousness shines like the dawn and 00:06:50.127 --> 00:06:53.367 her salvation blazes like a burning torch. 00:06:54.027 --> 00:06:56.157 The nations will see your righteousness. 00:06:56.682 --> 00:07:01.572 World leaders will be blinded by your glory and you will be given a 00:07:01.572 --> 00:07:03.972 new name by the Lord's own mouth. 00:07:05.022 --> 00:07:09.732 The Lord will hold you in his hand for all to see a splendid 00:07:09.732 --> 00:07:11.202 crown in the hand of God. 00:07:11.652 --> 00:07:17.382 Never again will you be called the forsaken city or the desolate land. 00:07:17.952 --> 00:07:22.812 Your new name will be the city of God's delight and the bride of God. 00:07:23.292 --> 00:07:27.222 For the Lord delights in you and will claim you as his bride. 00:07:27.792 --> 00:07:31.332 Your children will commit themselves to you o Jerusalem. 00:07:31.992 --> 00:07:37.062 Just as a young man commits himself to his bride, then God will rejoice 00:07:37.067 --> 00:07:42.522 over you as a bride groom rejoices over his bride O Jerusalem. 00:07:43.092 --> 00:07:45.522 I have posted watchmen on your walls. 00:07:45.852 --> 00:07:50.532 They will pray day and night, continually take no rest. 00:07:50.532 --> 00:07:52.092 All you who pray to the Lord. 00:07:52.692 --> 00:07:56.832 Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work, until he makes 00:07:56.832 --> 00:07:58.962 Jerusalem the pride of the earth. 00:07:59.922 --> 00:08:03.402 The Lord has sworn to Jerusalem by his own strength. 00:08:03.732 --> 00:08:06.492 I will never again hand you over to your enemies. 00:08:07.182 --> 00:08:12.282 Never again will foreign warriors come and take away your grain and new wine. 00:08:13.242 --> 00:08:15.942 You raised the grain and you will eat it. 00:08:16.122 --> 00:08:17.232 Praising the Lord. 00:08:18.012 --> 00:08:21.162 Within the courtyards of the temple, you yourselves will 00:08:21.162 --> 00:08:22.872 drink the wine you have pressed. 00:08:23.892 --> 00:08:29.862 Go out through the gates, prepare the highway for my people to return, smooth 00:08:29.862 --> 00:08:32.232 out the road, pull out the boulders. 00:08:32.532 --> 00:08:35.292 Raise a flag for all the nations to see. 00:08:35.952 --> 00:08:38.982 The Lord has sent this message to every land. 00:08:39.912 --> 00:08:42.162 Tell the people of Israel look. 00:08:42.552 --> 00:08:44.082 Your savior is coming. 00:08:44.502 --> 00:08:48.072 See, he brings his reward with him as he comes. 00:08:48.702 --> 00:08:55.482 They will be called the holy people and the people redeemed by the Lord, and 00:08:55.482 --> 00:09:01.752 Jerusalem will be known as the desirable place, and the city no longer forsaken. 00:09:03.132 --> 00:09:04.182 Who is this? 00:09:04.242 --> 00:09:09.702 Who comes from Eden, from the city of Basra with his clothing stained red? 00:09:10.572 --> 00:09:14.742 Who is this in Royal robes marching in his great strength. 00:09:15.732 --> 00:09:19.392 It is I the Lord announcing your salvation. 00:09:19.932 --> 00:09:23.652 It is I the Lord who has the power to save. 00:09:24.372 --> 00:09:28.452 Why are your clothes so red as if you have been treading out grapes? 00:09:29.622 --> 00:09:32.382 I have been treading the wine press alone. 00:09:32.772 --> 00:09:36.282 No one was there to help me in my anger. 00:09:36.282 --> 00:09:39.372 I have trampled my enemies as if they were grapes. 00:09:39.987 --> 00:09:42.837 In my fury, I have trampled my foes. 00:09:43.407 --> 00:09:48.957 Their blood has stained my clothes for the time has come for me to avenge my people, 00:09:49.287 --> 00:09:51.417 to ransom them from their oppressors. 00:09:52.167 --> 00:09:56.097 I was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. 00:09:56.847 --> 00:10:02.787 So I myself stepped in to save them with my strong arm and my wrath sustained me. 00:10:03.537 --> 00:10:08.697 I crushed the nations in my anger and made them stagger and fall to the ground, 00:10:08.787 --> 00:10:11.067 spilling their blood upon the earth. 00:10:12.417 --> 00:10:16.107 I will tell of the Lord's unfailing love, I will praise 00:10:16.107 --> 00:10:17.787 the Lord for all he has done. 00:10:18.357 --> 00:10:22.977 I will rejoice in his great goodness to Israel, which he has granted 00:10:22.977 --> 00:10:24.957 according to his mercy and love. 00:10:25.587 --> 00:10:28.797 He said, they are my very own people. 00:10:29.097 --> 00:10:30.927 Surely they will not betray me again. 00:10:31.977 --> 00:10:35.667 He became their savior in all their suffering. 00:10:35.667 --> 00:10:42.027 He also suffered and he personally rescued them in his love and mercy. 00:10:42.027 --> 00:10:43.317 He redeemed them. 00:10:43.857 --> 00:10:48.747 He lifted them up and carried them through all the years, but they 00:10:48.747 --> 00:10:53.337 rebelled against him and grieved his Holy Spirit, so he became their 00:10:53.337 --> 00:10:55.137 enemy and fought against them. 00:10:56.247 --> 00:11:01.677 Then they remembered those days of old when Moses led his people out of Egypt. 00:11:02.307 --> 00:11:06.807 They cried out where is the one who brought Israel through the sea? 00:11:07.017 --> 00:11:11.607 With Moses as their shepherd, where is the one who sent his Holy 00:11:11.612 --> 00:11:13.587 Spirit to be among his people? 00:11:14.547 --> 00:11:18.957 Where is the one whose power was displayed when Moses lifted up his 00:11:18.957 --> 00:11:24.267 hand, the one who divided the sea before them making himself famous forever. 00:11:25.317 --> 00:11:28.917 Where is the one who led them through the bottom of the sea? 00:11:29.607 --> 00:11:33.897 They were like fine stallions racing through the desert, never stumbling. 00:11:34.707 --> 00:11:38.337 As with cattle going down into a peaceful valley, the spirit 00:11:38.337 --> 00:11:39.957 of the Lord gave them rest. 00:11:40.677 --> 00:11:45.177 You led your people Lord, and gained a magnificent reputation. 00:11:46.257 --> 00:11:48.657 Lord, look down from heaven. 00:11:48.897 --> 00:11:52.017 Look from your holy, glorious home and see us. 00:11:53.247 --> 00:11:56.997 Where is the passion and the might you used to show on our behalf? 00:11:57.537 --> 00:11:59.787 Where are your mercy and compassion? 00:11:59.787 --> 00:12:02.667 Now, surely you are still our father. 00:12:03.387 --> 00:12:08.847 Even if Abraham and Jacob would disown us, Lord, you would still be our father. 00:12:09.567 --> 00:12:12.297 You are our redeemer from ages past. 00:12:12.987 --> 00:12:16.647 Lord, why have you allowed us to turn from your path? 00:12:17.097 --> 00:12:20.607 Why have you given us stubborn hearts so we no longer fear you? 00:12:21.342 --> 00:12:25.452 Return and help us for we are your servants, the tribes that 00:12:25.452 --> 00:12:27.042 are your special possession. 00:12:27.912 --> 00:12:32.502 How briefly your holy people possessed your holy place and now 00:12:32.502 --> 00:12:33.972 our enemies have destroyed it. 00:12:34.872 --> 00:12:39.492 Sometimes it seems as though we never belonged to you as though we 00:12:39.492 --> 00:12:41.802 had never been known as your people. 00:12:42.912 --> 00:12:47.682 Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and calm down how the 00:12:47.682 --> 00:12:49.932 mountains would quake in your presence. 00:12:50.757 --> 00:12:55.197 As fire causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming 00:12:55.197 --> 00:12:56.877 would make the nations tremble. 00:12:57.747 --> 00:13:01.017 Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame. 00:13:01.827 --> 00:13:05.607 When you came down long ago, you did awesome deeds beyond 00:13:05.607 --> 00:13:10.497 our highest expectations and oh, how the mountains quaked. 00:13:11.172 --> 00:13:12.972 For since the world began. 00:13:13.332 --> 00:13:19.692 No ear has heard and no eye has seen a God like you who works for those who wait 00:13:19.692 --> 00:13:25.932 for him, you welcome those who gladly do good, who follow godly ways, but 00:13:25.937 --> 00:13:32.502 you have been very angry with us for we are not godly, we are constant sinners. 00:13:32.982 --> 00:13:35.352 How can people like us be saved? 00:13:36.012 --> 00:13:38.862 We are all infected and impure with sin. 00:13:39.627 --> 00:13:43.617 When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. 00:13:44.427 --> 00:13:50.037 Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall and our sins sweep us away like the wind. 00:13:50.907 --> 00:13:54.657 Yet, no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. 00:13:55.467 --> 00:14:00.207 Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins. 00:14:01.257 --> 00:14:04.467 And yet, oh Lord, you are our father. 00:14:05.187 --> 00:14:07.557 We are the clay and you are the potter. 00:14:08.352 --> 00:14:10.482 We are all formed by your hand. 00:14:11.502 --> 00:14:13.152 Don't be so angry with us. 00:14:13.152 --> 00:14:16.152 Lord, please don't remember our sins forever. 00:14:16.572 --> 00:14:20.502 Look at us, we pray and see that we are all your people. 00:14:21.282 --> 00:14:23.202 Your holy cities are destroyed. 00:14:23.802 --> 00:14:25.332 Zion is a wilderness. 00:14:25.482 --> 00:14:28.272 Yes, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin. 00:14:29.052 --> 00:14:33.012 The holy and beautiful temple where our ancestors praised you 00:14:33.012 --> 00:14:37.452 has been burned down and all the things of beauty are destroyed. 00:14:38.292 --> 00:14:42.522 After all this, Lord must you still refuse to help us, will you 00:14:42.522 --> 00:14:44.922 continue to be silent and punish us? 00:14:46.272 --> 00:14:52.122 The Lord says I was ready to respond, but no one asked for help. 00:14:52.902 --> 00:14:56.292 I was ready to be found, but no one was looking for me. 00:14:56.982 --> 00:14:58.842 I said, here I am. 00:14:59.142 --> 00:15:03.432 Here I am to a nation that did not call on my name. 00:15:04.317 --> 00:15:05.337 All day long. 00:15:05.337 --> 00:15:11.457 I opened my arms to a rebellious people, but they follow their own evil paths and 00:15:11.457 --> 00:15:15.117 their own crooked schemes all day long. 00:15:15.147 --> 00:15:19.977 They insult me to my face by worshiping idols in their sacred gardens. 00:15:20.667 --> 00:15:24.417 They burn incense on pagan altars at night. 00:15:24.447 --> 00:15:27.387 They go out among the graves worshiping the dead. 00:15:28.197 --> 00:15:32.317 They eat the flesh of pigs and make stews with other forbidden foods. 00:15:33.342 --> 00:15:37.782 Yet, they say to each other, don't come too close, or you will defile me. 00:15:38.022 --> 00:15:39.522 I am holier than you. 00:15:40.542 --> 00:15:43.182 These people are a stench in my nostrils. 00:15:43.662 --> 00:15:45.942 An accurate smell that never goes away. 00:15:47.082 --> 00:15:49.812 Look, my decree is written out in front of me. 00:15:50.292 --> 00:15:52.122 I will not stand silent. 00:15:52.252 --> 00:15:54.312 I will repay them in full. 00:15:54.672 --> 00:16:00.372 Yes, I will repay them both for their own sins and for those of their ancestors. 00:16:00.432 --> 00:16:01.332 Says the Lord. 00:16:02.097 --> 00:16:06.627 For, they also burned incense on the mountains and insulted me on the hills. 00:16:07.017 --> 00:16:12.957 I will pay them back in full, but I will not destroy them all, says the Lord. 00:16:13.587 --> 00:16:18.447 For just as good grapes are found among a cluster of bad ones and someone 00:16:18.447 --> 00:16:20.517 will say, don't throw them all away. 00:16:20.697 --> 00:16:26.397 Some of those grapes are good, so I will not destroy all Israel for 00:16:26.397 --> 00:16:28.437 I still have true servants there. 00:16:29.307 --> 00:16:34.227 I will preserve a remnant of the people of Israel and of Judah to possess my land. 00:16:35.097 --> 00:16:39.057 Those I choose will inherit it and my servants will live there. 00:16:39.987 --> 00:16:44.367 The plane of Sharon will again be filled with flocks for my people who have 00:16:44.367 --> 00:16:50.397 searched for me, and the Valley of AOR will be a place to pastor herds, but 00:16:50.397 --> 00:16:55.077 because the rest of you have forsaken the Lord and have forgotten his temple. 00:16:55.842 --> 00:17:00.642 Because you have prepared feasts to honor the God of fate and have offered 00:17:00.642 --> 00:17:03.072 mixed wine to the god of destiny. 00:17:03.642 --> 00:17:06.252 Now I will destin you for the sword. 00:17:06.972 --> 00:17:11.982 All of you will bow down before the executioner for when I called 00:17:12.402 --> 00:17:15.102 you, did not answer when I spoke. 00:17:15.552 --> 00:17:16.842 You did not listen. 00:17:17.562 --> 00:17:22.182 You deliberately sinned before my very eyes and chose to 00:17:22.182 --> 00:17:24.132 do what you know I despise. 00:17:25.137 --> 00:17:28.047 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:17:29.097 --> 00:17:32.727 My servants will eat, but you will starve. 00:17:33.597 --> 00:17:37.227 My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. 00:17:38.067 --> 00:17:43.047 My servants will rejoice, but you will be sad and ashamed. 00:17:43.887 --> 00:17:49.857 My servants will sing for joy, but you will cry in sorrow and despair. 00:17:50.847 --> 00:17:53.727 Your name will be a curse word among my people. 00:17:54.252 --> 00:17:57.972 For the sovereign Lord will destroy you and will call his 00:17:57.972 --> 00:18:00.012 true servants by another name. 00:18:00.972 --> 00:18:06.162 All who invoke a blessing or take an oath will do so by the God of truth. 00:18:06.642 --> 00:18:11.202 For I will put aside my anger and forget the evil of earlier days. 00:18:12.582 --> 00:18:19.122 Look, I am creating new heavens and a new earth and no one will even 00:18:19.122 --> 00:18:20.532 think about the old ones anymore. 00:18:21.567 --> 00:18:25.017 Be glad, rejoice forever in my creation. 00:18:25.497 --> 00:18:29.217 And look, I will create Jerusalem as a place of happiness. 00:18:29.787 --> 00:18:31.947 Her people will be a source of joy. 00:18:32.667 --> 00:18:36.297 I will rejoice over Jerusalem and delight in my people. 00:18:36.987 --> 00:18:40.197 And the sound of weeping and crying will be heard in it. 00:18:40.257 --> 00:18:44.127 No more, no longer will babies die. 00:18:44.127 --> 00:18:48.477 When only a few days old, no longer will adults die before 00:18:48.482 --> 00:18:49.977 they have lived a full life. 00:18:50.787 --> 00:18:57.087 No longer will people be considered old at 100 only the cursed will die that young. 00:18:57.867 --> 00:19:02.037 In those days, people will live in the houses they build and eat 00:19:02.042 --> 00:19:03.777 the fruit of their own vineyards. 00:19:04.467 --> 00:19:07.887 Unlike the past, invaders will not take their houses and 00:19:07.887 --> 00:19:09.507 confiscate their vineyards. 00:19:10.407 --> 00:19:15.297 For my people will live as long as trees and my chosen ones will have 00:19:15.297 --> 00:19:17.877 time to enjoy their hard won gains. 00:19:18.702 --> 00:19:23.382 They will not work in vain and their children will not be doomed to misfortune 00:19:24.282 --> 00:19:29.742 for they are people blessed by the Lord, and their children too will be blessed. 00:19:30.372 --> 00:19:33.132 I will answer them before they even call to me. 00:19:33.642 --> 00:19:36.672 While they are still talking about their needs, I will go 00:19:36.672 --> 00:19:38.292 ahead and answer their prayers. 00:19:39.162 --> 00:19:41.412 The wolf and the lamb will feed together. 00:19:42.042 --> 00:19:46.662 The lion will eat hay like a cow, but the snakes will eat dust. 00:19:47.457 --> 00:19:50.487 In those days, no one will be hurt or destroyed. 00:19:50.487 --> 00:19:55.107 On my holy mountain, I the Lord have spoken. 00:19:56.277 --> 00:20:02.727 This is what the Lord says, heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. 00:20:03.327 --> 00:20:05.667 Could you build me a temple as good as that? 00:20:06.507 --> 00:20:08.847 Could you build me such a resting place? 00:20:09.687 --> 00:20:12.717 My hands have made both heaven and earth. 00:20:13.077 --> 00:20:15.927 They and everything in them are mine. 00:20:16.587 --> 00:20:18.267 I the Lord have spoken. 00:20:19.347 --> 00:20:24.447 I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts who tremble at my word, 00:20:25.197 --> 00:20:29.397 but those who choose their own ways delighting in their detestable sins 00:20:29.727 --> 00:20:31.887 will not have their offerings accepted. 00:20:32.607 --> 00:20:38.127 When such people sacrifice bull, it is no more acceptable than a human sacrifice. 00:20:38.877 --> 00:20:43.167 When they sacrifice a lamb, it's as though they had sacrificed a dog. 00:20:43.947 --> 00:20:47.892 When they bring an offering of grain, They might as well offer the blood 00:20:47.892 --> 00:20:51.402 of a pig when they burn frankincense. 00:20:51.762 --> 00:20:53.682 It's as if they had blessed an idol. 00:20:54.432 --> 00:20:56.322 I will send them great trouble. 00:20:56.802 --> 00:21:03.342 All the things they feared for when I called, they did not answer when I spoke. 00:21:03.702 --> 00:21:05.082 They did not listen. 00:21:05.952 --> 00:21:10.722 They deliberately sinned before my very eyes and chose to do what they know. 00:21:10.722 --> 00:21:14.802 I despise hear this message from the Lord. 00:21:15.267 --> 00:21:21.357 All you who tremble at his words, your own people hate you and throw 00:21:21.357 --> 00:21:23.637 you out for being loyal to my name. 00:21:24.447 --> 00:21:26.457 Let the Lord be honored. 00:21:26.517 --> 00:21:32.217 They scoff, be joyful in him, but they will be put to shame. 00:21:33.057 --> 00:21:34.857 What is all the commotion in the city? 00:21:35.217 --> 00:21:37.827 What is that terrible noise from the temple? 00:21:38.607 --> 00:21:42.537 It is the voice of the Lord taking vengeance against his enemies. 00:21:43.572 --> 00:21:49.752 Before the birth pains even begin, Jerusalem gives birth to a son Who has 00:21:49.752 --> 00:21:52.332 ever seen anything as strange as this? 00:21:52.932 --> 00:21:54.522 Whoever heard of such a thing. 00:21:55.092 --> 00:21:58.092 Has a nation ever been born in a single day? 00:21:58.722 --> 00:22:04.422 Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment, but by the time Jerusalem's, birth 00:22:04.422 --> 00:22:07.302 pains begin, her children will be born. 00:22:08.352 --> 00:22:12.942 Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth and then not deliver it? 00:22:13.152 --> 00:22:14.082 Asks the Lord? 00:22:14.592 --> 00:22:15.102 No. 00:22:15.612 --> 00:22:19.452 I would never keep this nation from being born says your God. 00:22:20.622 --> 00:22:22.422 Rejoice with Jerusalem. 00:22:22.962 --> 00:22:29.202 Be glad with her all you who love her, and all you who mourn for her, drink 00:22:29.202 --> 00:22:34.602 deeply of her glory, even as an infant drinks at its mother's comforting breasts. 00:22:35.652 --> 00:22:37.272 This is what the Lord says. 00:22:37.947 --> 00:22:41.877 I will give Jerusalem a river of peace and prosperity. 00:22:42.507 --> 00:22:45.267 The wealth of the nations will flow to her. 00:22:45.777 --> 00:22:48.957 Her children will be nursed at her breasts, carried in 00:22:48.957 --> 00:22:51.117 her arms, and held on her lap. 00:22:51.867 --> 00:22:56.517 I will comfort you there in Jerusalem as a mother comforts her child. 00:22:57.687 --> 00:23:01.077 When you see these things, your heart will rejoice. 00:23:01.347 --> 00:23:03.237 You will flourish like the grass. 00:23:03.972 --> 00:23:07.992 Everyone will see the Lord's hand of blessing on his servants and 00:23:07.992 --> 00:23:09.792 his anger against his enemies. 00:23:10.392 --> 00:23:16.902 See, the Lord is coming with fire and his swift chariots roar like a whirlwind. 00:23:17.502 --> 00:23:21.252 He will bring punishment with the fury of his anger and the 00:23:21.252 --> 00:23:23.412 flaming fire of his hot rebuke. 00:23:24.192 --> 00:23:28.182 The Lord will punish the world by fire and by his sword. 00:23:28.722 --> 00:23:32.472 He will judge the earth and many will be killed by him. 00:23:33.522 --> 00:23:39.282 Those who consecrate and purify themselves in a sacred garden with its idol in 00:23:39.282 --> 00:23:45.072 the center, feasting on pork and rats and other detestable meats will come 00:23:45.072 --> 00:23:47.382 to a terrible end, says the Lord. 00:23:48.732 --> 00:23:52.632 I can see what they are doing and I know what they are thinking. 00:23:53.322 --> 00:23:58.422 So I will gather all nations and peoples together and they will see my glory. 00:23:58.992 --> 00:24:00.912 I will perform a sign among them. 00:24:01.737 --> 00:24:06.897 I will send those who survive to be messengers to the nations, to Tarshish, 00:24:07.197 --> 00:24:14.157 to the Libyans and liens who are famous as archers to tubal and Greece and to all 00:24:14.157 --> 00:24:19.827 the lands beyond the sea that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory There, 00:24:19.827 --> 00:24:22.347 they will declare my glory to the nations. 00:24:23.007 --> 00:24:26.697 They will bring the remnant of your people back from every nation. 00:24:27.417 --> 00:24:32.727 They will bring them to my Holy Mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord. 00:24:33.387 --> 00:24:37.587 They will ride on horses in chariots and wagons and on 00:24:37.587 --> 00:24:39.897 mules and camels says the Lord. 00:24:40.707 --> 00:24:43.377 And I will appoint some of them to be my priests. 00:24:43.382 --> 00:24:49.467 And Levites I, the Lord have spoken as surely as my new 00:24:49.467 --> 00:24:51.537 heavens and earth will remain. 00:24:52.107 --> 00:24:54.717 So will you always be my people. 00:24:55.557 --> 00:24:58.467 A name that will never disappear, says the Lord. 00:24:59.187 --> 00:25:04.797 All humanity will come to worship me from week to week and from month to month. 00:25:05.517 --> 00:25:08.817 And as they go out, they will see the dead bodies of those 00:25:08.817 --> 00:25:10.317 who have rebelled against me. 00:25:11.187 --> 00:25:15.747 For the worms that devour them will never die, and the fire that 00:25:15.747 --> 00:25:17.757 burns them will never go out. 00:25:18.672 --> 00:25:22.272 All who pass by will view them with utter horror. 00:25:27.072 --> 00:25:29.922 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:25:30.072 --> 00:25:31.062 Thank you for joining us.