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 --> 00:00:04.290 Day 200 and 52 00:00:04.703 --> 00:00:07.313 this message came to me concerning Babylon. 00:00:07.583 --> 00:00:14.093 The desert by the sea disaster is roaring down on you from the desert, like a 00:00:14.093 --> 00:00:16.583 whirlwind sweeping in from the negative. 00:00:17.123 --> 00:00:19.103 I see a terrifying vision. 00:00:19.673 --> 00:00:24.203 I see the betrayer betraying the destroyer, destroying. 00:00:25.313 --> 00:00:26.573 Go ahead you. 00:00:26.603 --> 00:00:30.263 Elamites and Meads attack and lay siege. 00:00:30.833 --> 00:00:35.123 I will make an end to all the groaning Babylon caused my 00:00:35.123 --> 00:00:37.553 stomach aches and burns with pain. 00:00:37.943 --> 00:00:40.403 Sharp pangs of anguish are upon me. 00:00:40.793 --> 00:00:42.443 Like those of a woman in labor. 00:00:43.223 --> 00:00:44.003 I grow faint. 00:00:44.003 --> 00:00:47.573 When I hear what God is planning, I am too afraid to look. 00:00:48.173 --> 00:00:50.873 My mind reels and my heart races. 00:00:51.323 --> 00:00:53.303 I longed for evening to come. 00:00:53.903 --> 00:00:55.793 Now I am terrified of the dark. 00:00:56.963 --> 00:00:57.413 Look. 00:00:57.833 --> 00:00:59.843 They are preparing a great feast. 00:01:00.113 --> 00:01:02.543 They are spreading rugs for people to sit on. 00:01:03.053 --> 00:01:04.973 Everyone is eating and drinking. 00:01:05.453 --> 00:01:08.723 But quick, grab your shields and prepare for battle. 00:01:09.083 --> 00:01:10.283 You are being attacked. 00:01:11.273 --> 00:01:16.133 Meanwhile, the Lord said to me, put a watchman on the city wall. 00:01:16.553 --> 00:01:18.713 Let him shout out what he sees. 00:01:19.103 --> 00:01:23.243 He should look for chariots drawn by pairs of horses and for 00:01:23.243 --> 00:01:25.373 riders on donkeys and camels. 00:01:26.093 --> 00:01:28.223 Let the watchmen be fully alert. 00:01:29.363 --> 00:01:33.143 Then the watchman called out day after day. 00:01:33.143 --> 00:01:37.043 I have stood on the watchtower my Lord, night after night. 00:01:37.043 --> 00:01:38.873 I have remained at my post. 00:01:39.413 --> 00:01:41.483 Now at last look. 00:01:41.933 --> 00:01:44.993 Here comes a man in a chariot with a pair of horses. 00:01:45.923 --> 00:01:49.733 Then the watchman said, Babylon is fallen. 00:01:49.913 --> 00:01:50.693 Fallen. 00:01:51.083 --> 00:01:54.503 All the idols of Babylon lie broken on the ground. 00:01:55.403 --> 00:02:00.143 All my people, threshed and winnowed, I have told you everything. 00:02:00.148 --> 00:02:05.543 The Lord of heaven's armies has said everything the God of Israel has told me. 00:02:07.223 --> 00:02:10.103 This message came to me concerning Edem. 00:02:11.333 --> 00:02:14.003 Someone from Edem keeps calling to me. 00:02:14.708 --> 00:02:17.648 Watchman, how much longer until morning? 00:02:18.188 --> 00:02:19.778 When will the night be over? 00:02:20.648 --> 00:02:22.148 The watchman replies. 00:02:22.718 --> 00:02:26.108 Morning is coming, but night will soon return. 00:02:26.588 --> 00:02:30.278 If you wish to ask again, then come back and ask. 00:02:31.838 --> 00:02:34.658 This message came to me concerning Arabia. 00:02:35.708 --> 00:02:41.408 Oh, caravans from Edin hide in the deserts of Arabia O. 00:02:41.408 --> 00:02:42.698 People of Tema. 00:02:43.238 --> 00:02:45.458 Bring water to these thirsty people. 00:02:45.998 --> 00:02:48.248 Food to these weary refugees. 00:02:49.088 --> 00:02:53.288 They have fled from the sword, from the drawn sword, from the 00:02:53.288 --> 00:02:55.658 bent bow and the terrors of battle. 00:02:56.588 --> 00:03:02.288 The Lord said to me, within a year counting, each day, all the glory 00:03:02.288 --> 00:03:04.028 of Keter will come to an end. 00:03:04.688 --> 00:03:07.718 Only a few of its courageous archers will survive. 00:03:08.318 --> 00:03:11.978 I the Lord, the God of Israel, have spoken. 00:03:13.568 --> 00:03:18.278 This message came to me concerning Jerusalem, the valley of vision. 00:03:19.478 --> 00:03:20.528 What is happening? 00:03:21.098 --> 00:03:23.168 Why is everyone running to the rooftops? 00:03:23.858 --> 00:03:26.258 The whole city is in a terrible uproar. 00:03:26.948 --> 00:03:32.228 What do I see in this reveling city bodies are lying everywhere. 00:03:32.558 --> 00:03:35.678 Killed not in battle, but by famine and disease. 00:03:36.398 --> 00:03:38.228 All your leaders have fled. 00:03:38.648 --> 00:03:40.538 They surrendered without resistance. 00:03:41.288 --> 00:03:44.498 The people tried to slip away, but they were captured too. 00:03:45.308 --> 00:03:48.818 That's why I said, leave me alone to weep. 00:03:49.148 --> 00:03:50.858 Do not try to comfort me. 00:03:51.278 --> 00:03:54.998 Let me cry for my people as I watch them being destroyed. 00:03:56.228 --> 00:03:59.618 Oh, what a day of crushing defeat. 00:03:59.978 --> 00:04:03.668 What a day of confusion and terror brought by the Lord? 00:04:04.058 --> 00:04:07.598 The Lord of heaven's armies upon the valley of vision. 00:04:08.223 --> 00:04:12.398 The walls of Jerusalem have been broken and cries of death. 00:04:12.398 --> 00:04:14.078 Echo from the mountainsides. 00:04:14.828 --> 00:04:19.208 Elamites are the archers with their chariots and charioteers. 00:04:19.988 --> 00:04:22.238 The men of Keir hold up the shields. 00:04:22.568 --> 00:04:28.958 Chariots fill your beautiful valleys and charioteers storm your gates, Judah's 00:04:28.958 --> 00:04:30.908 defenses have been stripped away. 00:04:31.778 --> 00:04:34.088 You run to the armory for your weapons. 00:04:34.718 --> 00:04:37.478 You inspect the brakes in the walls of Jerusalem. 00:04:37.853 --> 00:04:40.373 You store up water in the lower pool. 00:04:40.733 --> 00:04:44.993 You survey the houses and tear some down for stone to strengthen 00:04:44.993 --> 00:04:47.783 the walls between the city walls. 00:04:47.873 --> 00:04:53.303 You build a reservoir for water from the old pool, but you never ask for 00:04:53.303 --> 00:04:55.673 help from the one who did all this. 00:04:56.423 --> 00:05:01.673 You never considered the one who planned this long ago at that time. 00:05:01.673 --> 00:05:06.923 The Lord, the Lord of heaven's armies called you to weep and mourn. 00:05:07.823 --> 00:05:12.293 He told you to shave your heads in sorrow for your sins and to wear 00:05:12.293 --> 00:05:14.963 clothes of burlap to show your remorse. 00:05:15.893 --> 00:05:18.683 But instead, you dance and play. 00:05:19.643 --> 00:05:22.253 You slaughter cattle and kill sheep. 00:05:23.093 --> 00:05:25.793 You feast on meat and drink wine. 00:05:26.303 --> 00:05:30.683 You say, let's feast and drink for tomorrow. 00:05:30.683 --> 00:05:31.343 We die. 00:05:32.393 --> 00:05:35.123 The Lord of heaven's armies has revealed this to me. 00:05:35.948 --> 00:05:40.118 Until the day you die, you will never be forgiven for this sin. 00:05:40.958 --> 00:05:44.708 That is the judgment of the Lord, the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:05:45.848 --> 00:05:50.048 This is what the Lord, the Lord of heaven's armies said to me. 00:05:50.678 --> 00:05:55.868 Confront Sheb the palace administrator and give him this message. 00:05:56.978 --> 00:06:00.968 Who do you think you are and what are you doing here? 00:06:01.148 --> 00:06:03.278 Building a beautiful tomb for yourself. 00:06:04.058 --> 00:06:09.788 A monument high up in the rock for the Lord is about to hurl you away mighty man. 00:06:10.028 --> 00:06:14.558 He is going to grab you, crumple you into a ball, and toss you 00:06:14.558 --> 00:06:17.168 away into a distant, barren land. 00:06:17.858 --> 00:06:22.598 There you will die and your glorious chariots will be broken and useless. 00:06:23.108 --> 00:06:25.298 You are a disgrace to your master. 00:06:26.468 --> 00:06:30.128 Yes, I will drive you out of office, says the Lord. 00:06:30.488 --> 00:06:33.098 I will pull you down from your high position. 00:06:33.983 --> 00:06:39.263 Then I will call my servant Eliakim, son of Hel to replace you. 00:06:39.953 --> 00:06:44.093 I will dress him in your royal robes and will give him your title and your 00:06:44.093 --> 00:06:48.893 authority, and he will be a father to the people of Jerusalem and Judah. 00:06:49.313 --> 00:06:53.723 I will give him the key to the house of David, the highest 00:06:53.723 --> 00:06:55.373 position in the Royal Court. 00:06:56.153 --> 00:06:59.633 When he opens doors, no one will be able to close them. 00:07:00.188 --> 00:07:03.848 When he closes doors, no one will be able to open them. 00:07:04.448 --> 00:07:08.828 He will bring honor to his family name for I will drive him firmly 00:07:08.828 --> 00:07:10.898 in place like a nail in the wall. 00:07:11.738 --> 00:07:15.908 They will give him great responsibility and he will bring honor to even 00:07:15.908 --> 00:07:17.888 the lowliest members of his family. 00:07:18.968 --> 00:07:24.308 But the Lord of Heaven's armies also says the time will come when I will 00:07:24.308 --> 00:07:26.498 pull out the nail That seemed so firm. 00:07:27.113 --> 00:07:29.183 It will come out and fall to the ground. 00:07:29.693 --> 00:07:32.123 Everything it supports will fall with it. 00:07:32.873 --> 00:07:35.363 I, the Lord have spoken. 00:07:37.013 --> 00:07:41.933 This message came to me concerning tire whale. 00:07:42.263 --> 00:07:47.993 You trading ships of tar sh for the harbor and houses of tire are gone. 00:07:48.773 --> 00:07:53.633 The rumors you heard in Cyprus are all true mourn in silence. 00:07:54.023 --> 00:07:59.843 You people of the coast and you merchants of seden, your traders crossed 00:07:59.843 --> 00:08:02.153 the sea sailing over deep waters. 00:08:02.663 --> 00:08:06.623 They brought you grain from Egypt and harvests from along the Nile. 00:08:07.073 --> 00:08:12.623 You were the marketplace of the world, but now you are put to shame. 00:08:12.623 --> 00:08:15.083 City of Seden Fort Tire. 00:08:15.143 --> 00:08:19.283 The fortress of the sea says, now I am childless. 00:08:19.823 --> 00:08:21.503 I have no sons or daughters. 00:08:22.718 --> 00:08:26.978 When Egypt hears the news about tire, there will be great sorrow. 00:08:27.638 --> 00:08:30.698 Send word now to Tarshish whale. 00:08:30.698 --> 00:08:35.378 You people who live in distant lands is this silent ruin. 00:08:35.378 --> 00:08:38.108 All that is left of your once joyous city. 00:08:38.978 --> 00:08:41.018 What a long history was yours? 00:08:41.798 --> 00:08:46.598 Think of all the colonists you sent to distant places who has 00:08:46.598 --> 00:08:51.218 brought this disaster on tire, that great creator of kingdoms. 00:08:51.818 --> 00:08:53.708 Her traitors were all princes. 00:08:53.948 --> 00:08:55.748 Her merchants were nobles. 00:08:56.378 --> 00:09:01.688 The Lord of heaven's armies has done it To destroy your pride and bring low 00:09:01.688 --> 00:09:08.288 all earth's nobility come people of tar sh sweep over the land like the 00:09:08.293 --> 00:09:11.318 flooding Nile for tire is defenseless. 00:09:12.218 --> 00:09:17.108 The Lord held out his hand over the sea and shook the kingdoms of the earth. 00:09:17.618 --> 00:09:19.928 He has spoken out against Isha. 00:09:20.438 --> 00:09:23.138 Ordering that her fortresses be destroyed. 00:09:23.588 --> 00:09:26.108 He says, never again will you. 00:09:26.108 --> 00:09:30.278 Rejoice o daughter of Sidon for you have been crushed. 00:09:30.788 --> 00:09:34.418 Even if you flee to Cyprus, you will find no rest. 00:09:35.648 --> 00:09:37.538 Look at the land of Babylonia. 00:09:37.838 --> 00:09:39.728 The people of that land are gone. 00:09:40.418 --> 00:09:45.008 The Assyrians have handed Babylon over to the wild animals of the desert. 00:09:45.668 --> 00:09:50.528 They have built seed ramps against its walls, torn down its palaces, 00:09:50.858 --> 00:09:52.868 and turned it to a heap of rubble. 00:09:53.888 --> 00:09:58.388 Whale you ships of tar sh for your harbor is destroyed. 00:09:59.498 --> 00:10:02.978 For 70 years the length of a king's life. 00:10:03.248 --> 00:10:08.018 T will be forgotten, but then the city will come back to life as 00:10:08.018 --> 00:10:09.968 in the song about the prostitute. 00:10:10.688 --> 00:10:12.968 Take a harp and walk the streets. 00:10:13.028 --> 00:10:14.438 You've forgotten Harlett. 00:10:15.068 --> 00:10:19.958 Make sweet melody and sing your songs so you will be remembered again. 00:10:21.128 --> 00:10:27.098 Yes, after 70 years, the Lord will revive tire, but she will be no 00:10:27.098 --> 00:10:28.868 different than she was before. 00:10:29.558 --> 00:10:33.009 She will again be a prostitute to all kingdoms around the world. 00:10:34.208 --> 00:10:36.938 But in the end, her prophets will be given to the Lord. 00:10:37.538 --> 00:10:42.068 Her wealth will not be hoarded, but will provide good food and fine 00:10:42.068 --> 00:10:44.108 clothing for the Lord's priests. 00:10:46.673 --> 00:10:52.283 Look, the Lord is about to destroy the earth and make it a vast wasteland. 00:10:52.763 --> 00:10:57.953 He devastates the surface of the earth and scatters the people, priests and 00:10:57.953 --> 00:11:05.513 laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders 00:11:05.513 --> 00:11:08.453 and borrowers, bankers and debtors. 00:11:08.813 --> 00:11:10.313 None will be spared. 00:11:11.063 --> 00:11:14.303 The Earth will be completely emptied and looted. 00:11:14.753 --> 00:11:20.123 The Lord has spoken the earth, mourns and dries up, and the 00:11:20.128 --> 00:11:22.163 land wastes away and withers. 00:11:22.703 --> 00:11:24.713 Even the greatest people on earth. 00:11:24.713 --> 00:11:25.523 Waste away. 00:11:26.063 --> 00:11:30.563 The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted God's 00:11:30.563 --> 00:11:36.173 instructions, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant. 00:11:37.043 --> 00:11:39.893 Therefore, a curse consumes the earth. 00:11:40.898 --> 00:11:43.448 Its people must pay the price for their sin. 00:11:44.258 --> 00:11:48.488 They are destroyed by fire and only a few are left alive. 00:11:49.238 --> 00:11:53.288 The grapevines waste away and there is no new wine. 00:11:54.068 --> 00:11:56.558 All the MerryMakers sigh and mourn. 00:11:57.038 --> 00:11:59.978 The cheerful sound of tambourines is stilled. 00:12:00.578 --> 00:12:03.878 The happy cries of celebration are heard no more. 00:12:04.418 --> 00:12:07.418 The melodious chords of the harp are silent. 00:12:08.198 --> 00:12:10.748 Gone are the joys of wine and song. 00:12:11.108 --> 00:12:13.778 Alcoholic drink turns bitter in the mouth. 00:12:14.318 --> 00:12:16.508 The city rises in chaos. 00:12:17.198 --> 00:12:19.358 Every home is locked to keep out. 00:12:19.358 --> 00:12:24.068 Intruders mobs gather in the streets, crying out for wine. 00:12:24.818 --> 00:12:26.648 Joy has turned to gloom. 00:12:27.278 --> 00:12:29.558 Gladness has been banished from the land. 00:12:30.278 --> 00:12:32.288 The city is left in ruins. 00:12:32.618 --> 00:12:34.088 Its gates battered down. 00:12:35.288 --> 00:12:37.868 Throughout the earth, the story is the same. 00:12:38.378 --> 00:12:43.838 Only a remnant is left like the stray olives left on the tree or the few 00:12:43.838 --> 00:12:46.388 grapes left on the vine after harvest. 00:12:47.468 --> 00:12:50.438 But all who are left, shout and sing for joy. 00:12:51.008 --> 00:12:52.268 Those in the west. 00:12:52.298 --> 00:12:56.888 Praise the Lord's majesty in eastern lands, give glory to the 00:12:56.888 --> 00:12:59.888 Lord in the lands beyond the sea. 00:13:00.218 --> 00:13:03.278 Praise the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 00:13:04.013 --> 00:13:06.983 We hear songs of praise from the ends of the earth. 00:13:07.223 --> 00:13:13.313 Songs that give glory to the righteous one, but my heart is heavy with grief. 00:13:13.973 --> 00:13:16.733 Wheat for me, for I wither away. 00:13:17.423 --> 00:13:21.293 Deceit still prevails and treachery is everywhere. 00:13:22.133 --> 00:13:26.573 Terror and traps and snares will be your lot, you people of the earth. 00:13:27.323 --> 00:13:30.143 Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap. 00:13:30.578 --> 00:13:33.758 And those who escape the trap will be caught in a snare. 00:13:34.898 --> 00:13:37.988 Destruction falls like rain from the heavens. 00:13:38.348 --> 00:13:40.598 The foundations of the earth shake. 00:13:41.198 --> 00:13:42.608 The earth has broken up. 00:13:42.848 --> 00:13:44.768 It has utterly collapsed. 00:13:45.038 --> 00:13:46.898 It is violently shaken. 00:13:47.618 --> 00:13:49.688 The earth staggers like a drunk. 00:13:49.868 --> 00:13:52.388 It trembles like a tent in a storm. 00:13:52.898 --> 00:13:55.448 It falls and will not rise again. 00:13:56.018 --> 00:13:59.108 For the guilt of its rebellion is very heavy. 00:14:00.638 --> 00:14:04.748 That day, the Lord will punish the gods in the heavens and the proud 00:14:04.748 --> 00:14:06.788 rulers of the nations on earth. 00:14:07.568 --> 00:14:10.028 They will be rounded up and put in prison. 00:14:10.508 --> 00:14:14.498 They will be shut up in prison and will finally be punished. 00:14:15.128 --> 00:14:20.468 Then the glory of the moon will wane and the brightness of the sun will fade. 00:14:21.278 --> 00:14:24.938 For the Lord of Heaven's, armies will rule on Mount Zion. 00:14:25.703 --> 00:14:30.083 He will rule in great glory in Jerusalem, in the sight of 00:14:30.083 --> 00:14:31.853 all the leaders of his people. 00:14:33.413 --> 00:14:39.023 Oh Lord, I will honor and praise your name for you are my God. 00:14:39.833 --> 00:14:42.233 You do such wonderful things. 00:14:42.953 --> 00:14:47.243 You planned them long ago and now you have accomplished them. 00:14:47.993 --> 00:14:51.173 You turn mighty cities into heaps of ruins. 00:14:51.593 --> 00:14:53.993 Cities with strong walls are turned to rubble. 00:14:54.848 --> 00:14:59.948 Beautiful palaces in distant lands disappear and will never be rebuilt. 00:15:00.698 --> 00:15:04.238 Therefore, strong nations will declare your glory. 00:15:04.538 --> 00:15:09.788 Ruthless nations will fear you, but you are a tower of 00:15:09.788 --> 00:15:11.918 refuge to the poor, oh Lord. 00:15:12.548 --> 00:15:15.578 A tower of refuge to the needy in distress. 00:15:16.388 --> 00:15:20.258 You are a refuge from the storm and a shelter from the heat. 00:15:20.993 --> 00:15:26.363 For the oppressive acts of ruthless people are like a storm beating against a wall 00:15:26.693 --> 00:15:29.003 or like the relentless heat of the desert. 00:15:29.693 --> 00:15:34.163 But you silence the roar of foreign nations as the shade of 00:15:34.163 --> 00:15:36.203 a cloud cools relentless heat. 00:15:36.623 --> 00:15:42.323 So the boastful songs of ruthless people are stilled in Jerusalem. 00:15:42.773 --> 00:15:46.493 The Lord of heaven's armies will spread a wonderful feast for 00:15:46.493 --> 00:15:48.023 all the people of the world. 00:15:48.863 --> 00:15:54.293 It will be a delicious banquet with clear well aged wine and choice meat. 00:15:55.163 --> 00:15:59.273 There he will remove the cloud of gloom, the shadow of death 00:15:59.278 --> 00:16:00.653 that hangs over the earth. 00:16:01.463 --> 00:16:03.773 He will swallow up death forever. 00:16:04.433 --> 00:16:07.493 The sovereign Lord will wipe away all tears. 00:16:07.883 --> 00:16:14.093 He will remove forever, all insults and mockery against his land and people. 00:16:14.693 --> 00:16:16.043 The Lord has spoken. 00:16:17.228 --> 00:16:21.848 In that day, the people will proclaim, this is our God. 00:16:22.148 --> 00:16:24.758 We trusted in him and he saved us. 00:16:25.088 --> 00:16:31.208 This is the Lord in whom we trust it, let us rejoice in the salvation he brings. 00:16:32.018 --> 00:16:37.418 For the Lord's hand of blessing will rest on Jerusalem, but Moab will be crushed. 00:16:38.048 --> 00:16:41.228 It will be like straw trampled down and left to rot. 00:16:42.008 --> 00:16:43.298 God will push down. 00:16:43.298 --> 00:16:47.078 Moabs people as a swimmer pushes down water with his hands. 00:16:47.588 --> 00:16:50.738 He will end their pride and all their evil works. 00:16:51.368 --> 00:16:53.828 The high walls of Moab will be demolished. 00:16:54.368 --> 00:17:00.248 They will be brought down to the ground, down into the dust in that day. 00:17:00.578 --> 00:17:03.758 Everyone in the land of Judah will sing this song. 00:17:04.598 --> 00:17:06.278 Our city is strong. 00:17:06.728 --> 00:17:09.968 We are surrounded by the walls of God's salvation. 00:17:10.523 --> 00:17:12.923 Open the gates to all who are righteous. 00:17:13.283 --> 00:17:15.263 Allow the faithful to enter. 00:17:15.893 --> 00:17:20.723 You will keep in perfect peace, all who trust in you, all whose 00:17:20.723 --> 00:17:22.433 thoughts are fixed on you. 00:17:23.213 --> 00:17:27.773 Trust in the Lord always for the Lord God is the eternal rock. 00:17:28.253 --> 00:17:32.273 He humbles the proud and brings down the arrogant city. 00:17:32.933 --> 00:17:34.883 He brings it down to the dust. 00:17:35.483 --> 00:17:40.643 The poor and oppressed trample it underfoot and the needy walk all over it. 00:17:41.663 --> 00:17:46.253 But for those who are righteous, the way is not steep and rough. 00:17:46.763 --> 00:17:51.533 You are a God who does what is right, and you smooth out the path ahead of them. 00:17:52.133 --> 00:17:56.063 Lord, we show our trust in you by obeying your laws. 00:17:56.453 --> 00:18:02.153 Our heart's desire is to glorify your name In the night I search for you 00:18:02.663 --> 00:18:04.613 in the morning, I earnestly seek you. 00:18:05.423 --> 00:18:09.563 For only when you come to judge the Earth will people learn what is right. 00:18:10.523 --> 00:18:15.533 Your kindness to the wicked does not make them do good, although others do. 00:18:15.533 --> 00:18:16.793 Right the wicked. 00:18:16.793 --> 00:18:20.303 Keep doing wrong and take no notice of the Lord's Majesty. 00:18:20.723 --> 00:18:24.503 Oh Lord, they pay no attention to your upraised fist. 00:18:25.073 --> 00:18:29.963 Show them your eagerness to defend your people, then they will be ashamed. 00:18:30.533 --> 00:18:33.113 Let your fire consume your enemies. 00:18:34.178 --> 00:18:36.458 Lord, you will grant us peace. 00:18:36.998 --> 00:18:39.428 All we have accomplished is really from you. 00:18:40.028 --> 00:18:41.168 Oh Lord, our God. 00:18:41.588 --> 00:18:45.248 Others have ruled us, but you alone are the one we worship. 00:18:45.998 --> 00:18:48.578 Those we served before are dead and gone. 00:18:48.908 --> 00:18:49.628 They're departed. 00:18:49.633 --> 00:18:51.218 Spirits will never return. 00:18:51.968 --> 00:18:55.988 You attacked them and destroyed them and they are long forgotten. 00:18:56.558 --> 00:18:59.318 Oh Lord, you have made our nation great. 00:18:59.618 --> 00:19:01.718 Yes, you have made us great. 00:19:02.123 --> 00:19:08.303 You have extended our borders and we give you the glory Lord, in distress. 00:19:08.303 --> 00:19:09.533 We searched for you. 00:19:10.133 --> 00:19:12.773 We prayed beneath the burden of your discipline. 00:19:13.343 --> 00:19:17.933 Just as a pregnant woman rise and cries out in pain as she gives birth. 00:19:18.263 --> 00:19:20.093 So were we in your presence? 00:19:20.093 --> 00:19:25.583 Lord, we too ride in agony, but nothing comes of our suffering. 00:19:25.973 --> 00:19:30.323 We have not given salvation to the earth, nor brought life into the world. 00:19:31.283 --> 00:19:33.773 Those who die in the Lord will live. 00:19:34.163 --> 00:19:35.963 Their bodies will rise again. 00:19:36.533 --> 00:19:41.303 Those who sleep in the earth will rise up and sing for joy for 00:19:41.303 --> 00:19:43.193 your life-giving light will fall. 00:19:43.198 --> 00:19:45.953 Like do on your people in the place of the dead. 00:19:47.093 --> 00:19:50.153 Go home my people and lock your doors. 00:19:50.513 --> 00:19:54.593 Hide yourselves for a little while until the Lord's anger has passed. 00:19:55.433 --> 00:19:55.883 Look. 00:19:56.558 --> 00:20:00.938 The Lord is coming from heaven to punish the people of the earth for their sins. 00:20:01.298 --> 00:20:04.178 The earth will no longer hide those who have been killed. 00:20:04.928 --> 00:20:09.218 They will be brought out for all to see in that day. 00:20:09.218 --> 00:20:14.348 The Lord will take his terrible swift sword and punish leviathan, 00:20:14.708 --> 00:20:19.178 the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing, serpent. 00:20:19.718 --> 00:20:23.678 He will kill the dragon of the sea in that day. 00:20:23.708 --> 00:20:25.718 Sing about the fruitful vineyard. 00:20:26.348 --> 00:20:30.218 I, the Lord will watch over it, watering it carefully. 00:20:30.758 --> 00:20:31.658 Day and night. 00:20:31.658 --> 00:20:33.758 I will watch so no one can harm it. 00:20:34.388 --> 00:20:36.098 My anger will be gone. 00:20:36.698 --> 00:20:40.688 If I find breyers and thorns growing, I will attack them. 00:20:41.198 --> 00:20:44.648 I will burn them up unless they turn to me for help. 00:20:45.378 --> 00:20:46.958 Let them make peace with me. 00:20:47.498 --> 00:20:50.018 Yes, let them make peace with me. 00:20:50.648 --> 00:20:53.978 The time is coming when Jacob's descendants will take root. 00:20:54.758 --> 00:20:59.168 Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth with fruit. 00:21:00.278 --> 00:21:03.488 Has the Lord struck Israel as he struck her enemies? 00:21:04.328 --> 00:21:06.758 Has he punished her as he punished them? 00:21:07.448 --> 00:21:07.988 No. 00:21:08.558 --> 00:21:11.228 But he exiled Israel to call her to account. 00:21:11.528 --> 00:21:16.508 She was exiled from her land as though blown away in a storm from the east. 00:21:17.048 --> 00:21:22.178 The Lord did this to purge Israel's wickedness to take away all her sin. 00:21:22.703 --> 00:21:26.783 As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust. 00:21:27.323 --> 00:21:30.983 No Asher pole or pagan shrine will be left standing. 00:21:31.403 --> 00:21:34.463 The fortified towns will be silent and empty. 00:21:34.823 --> 00:21:38.453 The houses abandoned the streets overgrown with weeds. 00:21:39.023 --> 00:21:42.563 Calves will graze their chewing on twigs and branches. 00:21:43.073 --> 00:21:47.813 The people are like the dead branches of a tree broken off and used for 00:21:47.813 --> 00:21:49.853 kindling beneath the cooking pots. 00:21:50.593 --> 00:21:55.418 Israel is a foolish and stupid nation for its people have turned away from God. 00:21:56.468 --> 00:22:00.638 Therefore, the one who made them will show them no pity or mercy. 00:22:01.808 --> 00:22:06.578 Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together like handpicked 00:22:06.578 --> 00:22:13.028 grain one by one, he will gather them from the Euphrates River in the east to the 00:22:13.028 --> 00:22:16.298 brook of Egypt in the West in that day. 00:22:16.298 --> 00:22:18.098 The great trumpet will sound. 00:22:18.788 --> 00:22:24.428 Many who were dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to 00:22:24.433 --> 00:22:27.158 worship the Lord on his holy mountain. 00:22:28.988 --> 00:22:31.838 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:22:31.988 --> 00:22:32.978 Thank you for joining us.