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 --> 00:00:04.370 Day 200 and 57 00:00:04.784 --> 00:00:05.504 Wake up. 00:00:05.834 --> 00:00:06.674 Wake up. 00:00:06.734 --> 00:00:07.454 Oh Lord. 00:00:07.934 --> 00:00:09.644 Clothe yourself with strength. 00:00:10.064 --> 00:00:12.194 Flex your mighty right arm. 00:00:12.884 --> 00:00:16.544 Rouse yourself as in the days of old when you slew Egypt. 00:00:16.784 --> 00:00:17.924 The dragon of the Nile. 00:00:19.124 --> 00:00:20.894 Are you not the same today? 00:00:21.164 --> 00:00:25.454 The one who dried up the sea, making a path of escape through the depths 00:00:25.514 --> 00:00:27.404 so that your people could cross over. 00:00:28.394 --> 00:00:31.424 Those who have been ransomed by the Lord will return. 00:00:32.144 --> 00:00:37.934 They will enter Jerusalem singing crowned with everlasting joy, sorrow 00:00:37.939 --> 00:00:42.464 and mourning will disappear, and they will be filled with joy and gladness. 00:00:43.544 --> 00:00:47.534 I, yes, I am the one who comforts you. 00:00:48.104 --> 00:00:54.044 So why are you afraid of mere humans who wither like the grass and disappear, yet 00:00:54.044 --> 00:00:56.414 you have forgotten the Lord your creator. 00:00:57.104 --> 00:01:00.584 The one who stretched out the sky like a canopy and laid 00:01:00.584 --> 00:01:02.114 the foundations of the earth. 00:01:02.804 --> 00:01:05.774 Will you remain in constant dread of human oppressors? 00:01:06.494 --> 00:01:09.224 Will you continue to fear the anger of your enemies? 00:01:09.824 --> 00:01:11.564 Where is their fury and anger? 00:01:11.564 --> 00:01:13.424 Now it is gone. 00:01:14.234 --> 00:01:16.904 Soon, all you captives will be released. 00:01:17.444 --> 00:01:21.434 Imprisonment, starvation and death will not be your fate. 00:01:22.064 --> 00:01:27.764 For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea causing its waves to roar. 00:01:28.484 --> 00:01:33.914 My name is the Lord of Heaven's armies, and I have put my words in your mouth 00:01:34.184 --> 00:01:36.644 and hidden you safely in my hand. 00:01:37.484 --> 00:01:42.224 I stretched out the sky like a canopy and laid the foundations of the earth. 00:01:43.004 --> 00:01:46.694 I am the one who says to Israel, you are my people. 00:01:47.804 --> 00:01:48.704 Wake up. 00:01:48.794 --> 00:01:50.654 Wake up O Jerusalem. 00:01:51.224 --> 00:01:53.804 You have drunk the cup of the Lord's fury. 00:01:54.344 --> 00:01:58.574 You have drunk the cup of terror tipping out its last drops. 00:01:59.114 --> 00:02:03.254 Not one of your children is left alive to take your hand and guide you. 00:02:04.154 --> 00:02:10.304 These two calamities have fallen on you, desolation and destruction, famine 00:02:10.604 --> 00:02:16.484 and war, and who is left to sympathize with you, who is left to comfort you. 00:02:17.339 --> 00:02:20.909 For your children have fainted and lie in the streets, helpless 00:02:20.909 --> 00:02:22.709 as antelopes caught in a net. 00:02:23.519 --> 00:02:25.649 The Lord has poured out his fury. 00:02:26.189 --> 00:02:27.629 God has rebuked them. 00:02:28.559 --> 00:02:30.479 But now listen to this. 00:02:30.659 --> 00:02:35.729 You afflicted ones who sit in a drunken stupor, though not from drinking wine. 00:02:36.539 --> 00:02:40.529 This is what the sovereign Lord your God and defender says. 00:02:41.339 --> 00:02:41.879 See. 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:48.119 I have taken the terrible cup From your hands, you will drink no more of my fury. 00:02:48.749 --> 00:02:52.019 Instead, I will hand that cup to your tormentors. 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:57.179 Those who said, we will trample you into the dust and walk on your backs. 00:02:58.259 --> 00:02:59.009 Wake up. 00:02:59.189 --> 00:02:59.909 Wake up. 00:02:59.939 --> 00:03:00.899 Oh Zion. 00:03:01.259 --> 00:03:02.899 Clothe yourself with strength. 00:03:03.799 --> 00:03:05.519 Put on your beautiful clothes. 00:03:05.519 --> 00:03:07.439 Oh, holy city of Jerusalem. 00:03:08.114 --> 00:03:11.474 For unclean and godless, people will enter your gates. 00:03:11.474 --> 00:03:14.714 No longer rise from the dust. 00:03:14.744 --> 00:03:15.734 O Jerusalem. 00:03:16.154 --> 00:03:17.714 Sit in a place of honor. 00:03:18.434 --> 00:03:20.924 Remove the chains of slavery from your neck. 00:03:21.014 --> 00:03:25.334 O Captive daughter of Zion for this is what the Lord says. 00:03:26.204 --> 00:03:30.044 When I sold you into exile, I received no payment. 00:03:30.614 --> 00:03:33.704 Now I can redeem you without having to pay for you. 00:03:34.904 --> 00:03:36.944 This is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:03:37.934 --> 00:03:40.844 Long ago my people chose to live in Egypt. 00:03:41.354 --> 00:03:43.364 Now they are oppressed by Assyria. 00:03:43.904 --> 00:03:44.834 What is this? 00:03:45.104 --> 00:03:50.924 Asks the Lord, why are my people enslaved again, those who rule 00:03:50.924 --> 00:03:52.844 them, shout in exaltation. 00:03:53.264 --> 00:03:58.874 My name is blasphemed all day long, but I will reveal my name to my people 00:03:59.114 --> 00:04:01.304 and they will come to know its power. 00:04:01.994 --> 00:04:06.434 Then at last, they will recognize that I am the one who speaks to them. 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:10.979 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger? 00:04:11.279 --> 00:04:16.169 Who brings good news, the good news of peace and salvation? 00:04:16.499 --> 00:04:21.809 The news that the God of Israel reigns, the watchmen shout and sing with 00:04:21.809 --> 00:04:26.879 joy for before their very eyes, they see the Lord returning to Jerusalem. 00:04:27.899 --> 00:04:32.399 Let the ruins of Jerusalem break into joyful song for the 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:34.349 Lord has comforted his people. 00:04:35.024 --> 00:04:36.824 He has redeemed Jerusalem. 00:04:37.634 --> 00:04:42.584 The Lord has demonstrated his holy power before the eyes of all the nations. 00:04:43.274 --> 00:04:46.784 All the ends of the earth will see the victory of our God. 00:04:47.924 --> 00:04:48.704 Get out. 00:04:49.244 --> 00:04:53.834 Get out and leave your captivity where everything you touch is unclean. 00:04:54.524 --> 00:04:57.074 Get out of there and purify yourselves. 00:04:57.254 --> 00:05:00.464 You who carry home the sacred objects of the Lord. 00:05:01.304 --> 00:05:02.804 You will not leave in a hurry. 00:05:03.104 --> 00:05:06.794 Running for your lives for the Lord will go ahead of you. 00:05:07.334 --> 00:05:11.774 Yes, the God of Israel will protect you from behind. 00:05:13.424 --> 00:05:15.974 See, my servant will prosper. 00:05:16.514 --> 00:05:18.344 He will be highly exalted. 00:05:19.034 --> 00:05:20.584 But many were amazed when they saw him. 00:05:21.764 --> 00:05:24.944 His face was so disfigured, he seemed hardly human. 00:05:25.394 --> 00:05:28.814 And from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man. 00:05:29.894 --> 00:05:30.884 He will startle. 00:05:30.884 --> 00:05:35.924 Many nations kings will stand speechless in his presence for they 00:05:35.924 --> 00:05:37.904 will see what they had not been told. 00:05:38.504 --> 00:05:41.114 They will understand what they had not heard about. 00:05:42.134 --> 00:05:44.084 Who has believed our message? 00:05:44.564 --> 00:05:47.264 To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm? 00:05:47.984 --> 00:05:51.614 My servant grew up in the Lord's presence, like a tender green 00:05:51.614 --> 00:05:54.224 shoot, like a root in dry ground. 00:05:54.884 --> 00:05:58.004 There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance. 00:05:58.559 --> 00:06:00.449 Nothing to attract us to him. 00:06:01.169 --> 00:06:07.049 He was despised and rejected a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. 00:06:07.889 --> 00:06:10.799 We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. 00:06:11.459 --> 00:06:15.419 He was despised and we did not care yet. 00:06:15.424 --> 00:06:16.739 It was our weaknesses. 00:06:16.769 --> 00:06:17.489 He carried. 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:22.169 It was our sorrows that weighed him down, and we thought his 00:06:22.169 --> 00:06:26.729 troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins. 00:06:27.659 --> 00:06:32.549 He was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. 00:06:33.269 --> 00:06:35.699 He was beaten so we could be whole. 00:06:36.359 --> 00:06:39.119 He was whipped so we could be healed. 00:06:39.989 --> 00:06:42.749 All of us, like sheep have strayed away. 00:06:43.379 --> 00:06:46.019 We have left God's paths to follow our own. 00:06:46.859 --> 00:06:49.829 Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. 00:06:50.789 --> 00:06:54.659 He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. 00:06:55.544 --> 00:06:59.714 He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep is silent 00:06:59.714 --> 00:07:05.384 Before the shearers, he did not open his mouth unjustly condemned. 00:07:05.594 --> 00:07:06.584 He was led away. 00:07:07.454 --> 00:07:11.564 No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut 00:07:11.564 --> 00:07:17.024 short in midstream, but he was struck down for the rebellion of my people. 00:07:17.624 --> 00:07:22.214 He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone, but he 00:07:22.214 --> 00:07:23.624 was buried like a criminal. 00:07:24.074 --> 00:07:28.994 He was put in a rich man's grave, but it was the Lord's good plan 00:07:28.994 --> 00:07:30.914 to crush him and cause him grief. 00:07:31.694 --> 00:07:37.184 Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. 00:07:37.844 --> 00:07:42.944 He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord's good plan will prosper in his hands. 00:07:43.784 --> 00:07:49.034 When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied 00:07:49.874 --> 00:07:51.464 and because of his experience. 00:07:52.034 --> 00:07:57.674 My righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous for. 00:07:57.674 --> 00:07:59.684 He will bear all their sins. 00:08:00.584 --> 00:08:04.184 I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier because 00:08:04.189 --> 00:08:05.774 he exposed himself to death. 00:08:06.524 --> 00:08:08.354 He was counted among the rebels. 00:08:09.134 --> 00:08:12.794 He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels. 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:18.689 Sing O childless woman, you who have never given birth. 00:08:19.049 --> 00:08:22.649 Break into loud and joyful song O Jerusalem. 00:08:22.889 --> 00:08:27.779 You who have never been in labor for the desolate woman now has more 00:08:27.779 --> 00:08:31.439 children than the woman who lives with her husband, says the Lord. 00:08:32.369 --> 00:08:33.629 Enlarge your house. 00:08:34.049 --> 00:08:35.219 Build an addition. 00:08:35.549 --> 00:08:39.629 Spread out your home and spare no expense for you will soon 00:08:39.629 --> 00:08:41.369 be bursting at the seams. 00:08:41.969 --> 00:08:47.099 Your descendants will occupy other nations and resettle the ruined cities. 00:08:48.149 --> 00:08:48.869 Fear not. 00:08:49.259 --> 00:08:51.149 You will no longer live in shame. 00:08:51.689 --> 00:08:52.739 Don't be afraid. 00:08:53.129 --> 00:08:55.139 There is no more disgrace for you. 00:08:55.829 --> 00:09:00.539 You will no longer remember the shame of your youth and the sorrows of widowhood. 00:09:01.289 --> 00:09:03.509 For your creator will be your husband. 00:09:04.049 --> 00:09:06.479 The Lord of heaven's armies is his name. 00:09:07.259 --> 00:09:10.859 He is your redeemer, the holy one of Israel. 00:09:11.549 --> 00:09:17.549 The God of all the earth for the Lord has called you back from your grief as 00:09:17.549 --> 00:09:22.019 though you were a young wife abandoned by her husband, says, your God. 00:09:22.769 --> 00:09:27.629 For a brief moment, I abandoned you, but with great compassion, I will 00:09:27.629 --> 00:09:30.509 take you back in a burst of anger. 00:09:30.509 --> 00:09:35.579 I turned my face away for a little while, but with everlasting love, 00:09:35.579 --> 00:09:39.899 I will have compassion on you, says the Lord your redeemer. 00:09:41.024 --> 00:09:44.984 Just as I swore in the time of Noah that I would never again 00:09:44.984 --> 00:09:46.424 let a flood cover the earth. 00:09:47.024 --> 00:09:51.974 So now I swear that I will never again be angry and punish you. 00:09:52.784 --> 00:09:56.444 For the mountains may move and the hills disappear. 00:09:57.074 --> 00:10:00.464 But even then, my faithful love for you will remain. 00:10:01.214 --> 00:10:05.084 My covenant of blessing will never be broken, says the 00:10:05.084 --> 00:10:06.854 Lord who has mercy on you. 00:10:08.369 --> 00:10:11.489 Storm battered city, troubled and desolate. 00:10:11.939 --> 00:10:17.609 I will rebuild you with precious jewels and make your foundations from lapis lly. 00:10:18.209 --> 00:10:23.519 I will make your towers of sparkling rubies, your gates of shining gems 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:26.009 and your walls of precious stones. 00:10:26.909 --> 00:10:31.379 I will teach all your children and they will enjoy great peace. 00:10:32.009 --> 00:10:35.669 You will be secure under a government that is just and fair. 00:10:36.269 --> 00:10:38.069 Your enemies will stay far away. 00:10:38.729 --> 00:10:43.499 You will live in peace and terror will not come near if 00:10:43.499 --> 00:10:45.449 any nation comes to fight you. 00:10:45.689 --> 00:10:47.459 It is not because I sent them. 00:10:47.999 --> 00:10:50.549 Whoever attacks you will go down in defeat. 00:10:51.629 --> 00:10:56.519 I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals beneath the forge and makes 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:01.499 the weapons of destruction, and I have created the armies that destroy. 00:11:02.654 --> 00:11:07.064 In that coming day, no weapon turned against you will succeed. 00:11:07.754 --> 00:11:11.294 You will silence every voice raised up to accuse you. 00:11:12.074 --> 00:11:14.894 These benefits are enjoyed by the servants of the Lord. 00:11:15.434 --> 00:11:17.684 Their vindication will come from me. 00:11:18.464 --> 00:11:20.414 I the Lord have spoken. 00:11:21.974 --> 00:11:23.384 Is anyone thirsty? 00:11:23.804 --> 00:11:26.894 Come and drink even if you have no money. 00:11:27.404 --> 00:11:29.984 Come take your choice of wine or milk. 00:11:30.329 --> 00:11:31.439 It's all free. 00:11:31.949 --> 00:11:35.219 Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? 00:11:35.699 --> 00:11:38.039 Why pay for food that does you no good? 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:41.849 Listen to me and you will eat what is good. 00:11:42.419 --> 00:11:44.339 You will enjoy the finest food. 00:11:45.329 --> 00:11:47.759 Come to me with your ears wide open. 00:11:48.089 --> 00:11:50.279 Listen, and you will find life. 00:11:50.969 --> 00:11:53.729 I will make an everlasting covenant with you. 00:11:54.449 --> 00:11:58.019 I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David. 00:11:58.424 --> 00:12:02.054 See how I used him to display my power among the peoples. 00:12:02.594 --> 00:12:07.784 I made him a leader Among the nations, you also will command nations you do 00:12:07.789 --> 00:12:13.154 not know, and peoples unknown to you will come running to obey because 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:18.944 I the Lord your God, the holy one of Israel have made you glorious. 00:12:20.024 --> 00:12:22.364 Seek the Lord while you can find him. 00:12:22.994 --> 00:12:25.274 Call on him now while he is near. 00:12:25.934 --> 00:12:30.824 Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. 00:12:31.574 --> 00:12:35.234 Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them. 00:12:35.774 --> 00:12:40.544 Yes, turn to our God for he will forgive generously. 00:12:41.624 --> 00:12:46.094 My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts, says the Lord and my 00:12:46.099 --> 00:12:50.624 ways are far beyond anything you could imagine for just as the 00:12:50.624 --> 00:12:52.574 heavens are higher than the earth. 00:12:53.174 --> 00:12:58.634 So my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. 00:12:59.624 --> 00:13:03.344 The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on 00:13:03.349 --> 00:13:04.964 the ground to water the earth. 00:13:05.624 --> 00:13:09.524 They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer 00:13:09.529 --> 00:13:11.024 and bread for the hungry. 00:13:11.954 --> 00:13:14.054 It is the same with my word. 00:13:14.774 --> 00:13:17.804 I send it out and it always produces fruit. 00:13:18.479 --> 00:13:23.789 It will accomplish all I want it to and it will prosper everywhere I send it. 00:13:24.359 --> 00:13:27.179 You will live in joy and peace. 00:13:27.539 --> 00:13:31.949 The mountains and hills will burst into song and the trees of the field 00:13:31.949 --> 00:13:37.589 will clap their hands, where once there were thorns, Cyprus trees will grow. 00:13:38.069 --> 00:13:40.859 Where Nettles grew, myrtles will sprout up. 00:13:41.579 --> 00:13:44.819 These events will bring great honor to the Lord's name. 00:13:45.554 --> 00:13:49.124 They will be an everlasting sign of his power and love. 00:13:51.674 --> 00:13:56.564 This is what the Lord says, be just and fair to all. 00:13:56.894 --> 00:14:02.144 Do what is right and good for I am coming soon to rescue you and to 00:14:02.149 --> 00:14:04.064 display my righteousness among you. 00:14:04.844 --> 00:14:07.724 Blessed are all those who are careful to do this. 00:14:08.384 --> 00:14:12.494 Blessed are those who honor my Sabbath days of rest and keep 00:14:12.494 --> 00:14:14.204 themselves from doing wrong. 00:14:15.254 --> 00:14:19.244 Don't let foreigners who commit themselves to the Lord say, the Lord 00:14:19.244 --> 00:14:21.464 will never let me be part of his people. 00:14:22.214 --> 00:14:27.044 And don't let the eunuchs say, I'm a dried up tree with no children and no 00:14:27.049 --> 00:14:30.164 future for this is what the Lord says. 00:14:30.884 --> 00:14:35.054 I will bless those eunuchs who keep my Sabbath days holy and 00:14:35.054 --> 00:14:38.894 who choose to do what pleases me and commit their lives to me. 00:14:39.704 --> 00:14:42.854 I will give them within the walls of my house. 00:14:43.364 --> 00:14:48.824 A memorial and a name far greater than sons and daughters could give for the 00:14:48.824 --> 00:14:51.254 name I give them is an everlasting one. 00:14:51.794 --> 00:14:53.354 It will never disappear. 00:14:54.464 --> 00:14:59.054 I will also bless the foreigners who commit themselves to the Lord, who serve 00:14:59.054 --> 00:15:04.364 him and love his name, who worship him, and do not desecrate the Sabbath day of 00:15:04.364 --> 00:15:07.514 rest and who hold fast to my covenant. 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:12.419 I will bring them to my Holy mountain of Jerusalem and will fill them 00:15:12.419 --> 00:15:14.519 with joy in my house of prayer. 00:15:15.329 --> 00:15:20.369 I will accept their burnt offerings and sacrifices because my temple will be 00:15:20.369 --> 00:15:23.039 called a house of prayer for all nations. 00:15:23.969 --> 00:15:28.139 For the sovereign Lord who brings back the outcasts of Israel 00:15:28.139 --> 00:15:30.989 says, I will bring others too. 00:15:31.319 --> 00:15:36.809 Besides my people, Israel come wild animals of the field. 00:15:37.439 --> 00:15:42.539 Come wild animals of the forest come and devour my people. 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.979 For the leaders of my people, the Lord's watchmen, his 00:15:46.979 --> 00:15:49.529 shepherds are blind and ignorant. 00:15:50.099 --> 00:15:54.119 They're like silent watchdogs that give no warning when danger comes. 00:15:54.249 --> 00:16:00.059 They love to lie around sleeping and dreaming like greedy dogs. 00:16:00.059 --> 00:16:01.439 They are never satisfied. 00:16:02.009 --> 00:16:03.509 They are ignorant Shepherds. 00:16:03.854 --> 00:16:09.044 All following their own path and intent on personal gain come. 00:16:09.314 --> 00:16:12.674 They say, let's get some wine and have a party. 00:16:13.124 --> 00:16:14.474 Let's all get drunk. 00:16:14.894 --> 00:16:18.314 Then tomorrow we'll do it again and have an even bigger party. 00:16:19.304 --> 00:16:20.864 Good people pass away. 00:16:21.134 --> 00:16:26.684 The godly often die before their time, but no one seems to care or wonder why. 00:16:27.164 --> 00:16:32.024 No one seems to understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come. 00:16:32.969 --> 00:16:36.989 For those who follow Godly paths will rest in peace when they die. 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:43.619 But you come hear you witches children, you offspring of adulterers and 00:16:43.619 --> 00:16:49.499 prostitutes, whom do you mock making faces and sticking out your tongues? 00:16:50.129 --> 00:16:54.719 You, children of sinners and liars, you worship your idols 00:16:54.719 --> 00:16:59.159 with great passion beneath the oaks and under every green tree. 00:16:59.789 --> 00:17:03.299 You sacrifice your children down in the valleys, among the 00:17:03.299 --> 00:17:04.949 jagged rocks in the cliffs. 00:17:05.729 --> 00:17:08.699 Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys. 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:12.869 You worship them with liquid offerings and grain offerings. 00:17:13.769 --> 00:17:14.759 They not. 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:17.069 I are your inheritance. 00:17:17.969 --> 00:17:19.859 Do you think All this makes me happy? 00:17:20.609 --> 00:17:24.359 You have committed adultery on every high mountain there. 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.419 You have worshiped idols and have been unfaithful to me. 00:17:28.439 --> 00:17:32.459 You have put pagan symbols on your doorposts and behind your doors. 00:17:33.029 --> 00:17:37.979 You have left me and climbed into bed with these detestable gods, you 00:17:37.979 --> 00:17:39.809 have committed yourselves to them. 00:17:40.199 --> 00:17:42.299 You love to look at their naked bodies. 00:17:42.719 --> 00:17:48.269 You have gone to Molech with olive oil and many perfumes sending your agents far 00:17:48.269 --> 00:17:50.849 and wide, even to the world of the dead. 00:17:51.749 --> 00:17:54.599 You grew weary in your search, but you never gave up. 00:17:55.394 --> 00:17:59.204 Desire gave you renewed strength and you did not grow weary. 00:18:00.224 --> 00:18:01.814 Are you afraid of these idols? 00:18:02.474 --> 00:18:03.674 Do they terrify you? 00:18:04.304 --> 00:18:08.504 Is that why you have lied to me and forgotten me and my words? 00:18:09.164 --> 00:18:12.644 Is it because of my long silence that you no longer fear me? 00:18:13.544 --> 00:18:16.544 Now I will expose your so-called good deeds. 00:18:17.094 --> 00:18:18.524 None of them will help you. 00:18:19.124 --> 00:18:22.934 Let's see if your idols can save you when you cry to them for help. 00:18:23.429 --> 00:18:26.339 Why a puff of wind can knock them down. 00:18:26.849 --> 00:18:29.189 If you just breathe on them, they fall over. 00:18:29.969 --> 00:18:34.649 But whoever trusts in me will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain. 00:18:35.969 --> 00:18:38.459 God says, rebuild the road. 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:43.109 Clear away the rocks and stones so my people can return from captivity. 00:18:43.499 --> 00:18:46.289 The high end lofty one who lives in eternity. 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:48.839 The holy one says this. 00:18:49.514 --> 00:18:53.594 I live in the high and holy place with those whose spirits 00:18:53.594 --> 00:18:55.124 are contrite and humble. 00:18:55.964 --> 00:19:00.134 I restore the crushed spirit of the humble and revive the courage of 00:19:00.134 --> 00:19:04.874 those with repentant hearts for I will not fight against you forever. 00:19:05.414 --> 00:19:10.274 I will not always be angry if I were all people would pass 00:19:10.274 --> 00:19:13.304 away all the souls I have made. 00:19:13.874 --> 00:19:17.354 I was angry, so I punished these greedy people. 00:19:17.924 --> 00:19:22.304 I withdrew from them, but they kept going on their own stubborn way. 00:19:22.844 --> 00:19:26.264 I have seen what they do, but I will heal them anyway. 00:19:26.894 --> 00:19:27.974 I will lead them. 00:19:28.694 --> 00:19:32.834 I will comfort those who mourn, bringing words of praise to their lips. 00:19:33.284 --> 00:19:38.534 May they have abundant peace, both near and far, says the Lord who heals them. 00:19:39.074 --> 00:19:43.904 But those who still reject me are like the restless sea, which is never, still, 00:19:43.904 --> 00:19:46.754 but continually churns up mud and dirt. 00:19:47.444 --> 00:19:50.384 There is no peace for the wicked says, my God. 00:19:51.704 --> 00:19:54.374 Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast. 00:19:54.644 --> 00:19:55.634 Shout aloud. 00:19:56.024 --> 00:19:56.954 Don't be timid. 00:19:57.524 --> 00:20:00.134 Tell my people Israel of their sins. 00:20:00.734 --> 00:20:02.534 Yet they act so pious. 00:20:03.194 --> 00:20:08.204 They come to the temple every day and seem delighted to learn all about me. 00:20:08.864 --> 00:20:13.604 They act like a righteous nation that would never abandon the laws of its God. 00:20:14.339 --> 00:20:19.589 They ask me to take action on their behalf pretending they want to be near me. 00:20:20.489 --> 00:20:22.439 We have fasted before you. 00:20:22.499 --> 00:20:25.109 They say, why aren't you impressed? 00:20:25.649 --> 00:20:29.039 We have been very hard on ourselves and you don't even notice it. 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:32.489 I will tell you why I respond. 00:20:33.239 --> 00:20:38.279 It's because you are fasting to please yourselves even while you fast. 00:20:38.549 --> 00:20:40.259 You keep oppressing your workers. 00:20:41.084 --> 00:20:44.474 What good is fasting when you keep on fighting and quarreling? 00:20:45.044 --> 00:20:48.434 This kind of fasting will never get you anywhere with me. 00:20:49.004 --> 00:20:53.204 You humble yourselves by going through the motions of penance, bowing your 00:20:53.209 --> 00:20:55.514 heads like reeds, bending in the wind. 00:20:56.144 --> 00:20:59.234 You dress in burlap and cover yourselves with ashes. 00:20:59.684 --> 00:21:01.514 Is this what you call fasting? 00:21:02.174 --> 00:21:04.364 Do you really think this will please the Lord? 00:21:05.414 --> 00:21:05.954 No. 00:21:06.464 --> 00:21:08.834 This is the kind of fasting I want. 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:10.019 Free. 00:21:10.019 --> 00:21:12.089 Those who are wrongly imprisoned. 00:21:12.749 --> 00:21:15.389 Lighten the burden of those who work for you. 00:21:15.989 --> 00:21:19.949 Let the oppressed go free and remove the chains that bind people. 00:21:20.729 --> 00:21:24.839 Share your food with the hungry and give shelter to the homeless. 00:21:25.499 --> 00:21:29.099 Give clothes to those who need them and do not hide from 00:21:29.099 --> 00:21:30.569 relatives who need your help. 00:21:31.619 --> 00:21:36.039 Then your salvation will come like the dawn and your wounds will quickly heal. 00:21:36.884 --> 00:21:40.244 Your godliness will lead you forward, and the glory of the 00:21:40.244 --> 00:21:42.314 Lord will protect you from behind. 00:21:42.944 --> 00:21:48.104 Then when you call, the Lord will answer, yes, I am here. 00:21:48.164 --> 00:21:49.454 He will quickly reply. 00:21:50.534 --> 00:21:52.694 Remove the heavy yoke of oppression. 00:21:53.024 --> 00:21:56.444 Stop pointing your finger and spreading vicious rumors. 00:21:56.894 --> 00:21:59.564 Feed the hungry and help those in trouble. 00:22:00.299 --> 00:22:04.499 Then your light will shine out from the darkness and the darkness around 00:22:04.499 --> 00:22:06.329 you will be as bright as noon. 00:22:07.199 --> 00:22:10.229 The Lord will guide you, continually giving you water. 00:22:10.229 --> 00:22:15.929 When you are dry and restoring your strength, you will be like a well watered 00:22:15.929 --> 00:22:18.929 garden like an ever flowing spring. 00:22:19.739 --> 00:22:22.859 Some of you will rebuild the deserted ruins of your cities. 00:22:23.459 --> 00:22:28.469 Then you will be known as a rebuilder of walls and a restorer of homes. 00:22:29.594 --> 00:22:31.454 Keep the Sabbath day holy. 00:22:32.294 --> 00:22:36.494 Don't pursue your own interests on that day, but enjoy the Sabbath 00:22:36.494 --> 00:22:38.144 and speak of it with delight. 00:22:38.144 --> 00:22:44.084 As the Lord's holy day, honor the Sabbath in everything you do on that day and 00:22:44.084 --> 00:22:49.304 don't follow your own desires or talk idly, then the Lord will be your delight. 00:22:49.814 --> 00:22:53.624 I will give you great honor and satisfy you with the inheritance 00:22:53.624 --> 00:22:55.874 I promised to your ancestor Jacob. 00:22:56.489 --> 00:22:58.709 I The Lord have spoken. 00:22:59.849 --> 00:23:05.699 Listen, the Lord's arm is not too weak to save you, nor is his 00:23:05.699 --> 00:23:07.739 ear too deaf to hear you call. 00:23:08.429 --> 00:23:13.019 It's your sins that have cut you off from God because of your sins. 00:23:13.229 --> 00:23:15.419 He has turned away and will not listen anymore. 00:23:16.949 --> 00:23:22.049 Your hands are the hands of murderers and your fingers are filthy with sin. 00:23:22.829 --> 00:23:26.609 Your lips are full of lies and your mouth spews corruption. 00:23:27.659 --> 00:23:30.299 No one cares about being fair and honest. 00:23:30.929 --> 00:23:33.449 The people's lawsuits are based on lies. 00:23:34.109 --> 00:23:37.949 They conceive evil deeds and then give birth to sin. 00:23:38.639 --> 00:23:43.079 They hatch deadly snakes and weave spider's, webs, whoever 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:44.939 eats their eggs will die. 00:23:45.509 --> 00:23:47.819 Whoever cracks them will hatch a viper. 00:23:48.689 --> 00:23:53.009 Their webs can't be made into clothing and nothing they do is productive. 00:23:53.669 --> 00:23:58.559 All their activity is filled with sin and violence is their trademark. 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:03.389 Their feet run to do evil and they rush to commit murder. 00:24:04.229 --> 00:24:08.399 They think only about sinning, misery and destruction. 00:24:08.429 --> 00:24:09.779 Always follow them. 00:24:10.229 --> 00:24:14.429 They don't know where to find peace or what it means to be just and good. 00:24:15.224 --> 00:24:18.884 They have mapped out crooked roads and no one who follows 00:24:18.884 --> 00:24:20.624 them knows a moment's peace. 00:24:21.644 --> 00:24:26.114 So there is no justice among us and we know nothing about right living. 00:24:26.894 --> 00:24:29.924 We look for light, but find only darkness. 00:24:30.404 --> 00:24:33.554 We look for bright skies, but walk in gloom. 00:24:34.304 --> 00:24:39.434 We grope like the blind along a wall feeling our way, like people without eyes. 00:24:40.244 --> 00:24:43.804 Even at brightest noontime, we stumble as though it were dark. 00:24:44.939 --> 00:24:47.549 Among the living, we are like the dead. 00:24:48.419 --> 00:24:50.429 We growl like hungry bears. 00:24:50.699 --> 00:24:53.009 We moan like mournful, doves. 00:24:53.609 --> 00:24:56.339 We look for justice, but it never comes. 00:24:56.999 --> 00:25:03.059 We look for rescue, but it is far away from us for our sins are piled 00:25:03.059 --> 00:25:06.179 up before God and testify against us. 00:25:06.869 --> 00:25:09.719 Yes, we know what sinners we are. 00:25:10.469 --> 00:25:13.229 We know we have rebelled and have denied the Lord. 00:25:13.919 --> 00:25:15.809 We have turned our backs on our God. 00:25:16.469 --> 00:25:19.259 We know how unfair and oppressive we have been. 00:25:19.589 --> 00:25:22.169 Carefully planning our deceitful lies. 00:25:22.859 --> 00:25:27.659 Our courts oppose the righteous and justice is nowhere to be found. 00:25:28.169 --> 00:25:31.709 Truth stumbles in the streets and honesty has been outlawed. 00:25:32.309 --> 00:25:37.409 Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who renounces evil is attacked. 00:25:38.459 --> 00:25:41.249 The Lord looked and was displeased to find. 00:25:41.249 --> 00:25:42.569 There was no justice. 00:25:43.199 --> 00:25:48.389 He was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed, so he 00:25:48.389 --> 00:25:54.059 himself stepped in to save them with his strong arm and his justice sustained them. 00:25:54.719 --> 00:25:58.469 He put on righteousness as his body armor and placed the 00:25:58.469 --> 00:26:00.569 helmet of salvation on his head. 00:26:01.349 --> 00:26:05.669 He clothed himself with a robe of vengeance and wrapped himself 00:26:05.669 --> 00:26:07.769 in a cloak of divine passion. 00:26:08.609 --> 00:26:11.399 He will repay his enemies for their evil deeds. 00:26:11.879 --> 00:26:14.339 His fury will fall on his foes. 00:26:15.029 --> 00:26:17.879 He will pay them back even to the ends of the earth. 00:26:18.479 --> 00:26:21.749 In the West, people will respect the name of the Lord. 00:26:22.349 --> 00:26:28.949 In the east, they will glorify him for he will come like a raging flood tide driven 00:26:28.949 --> 00:26:34.499 by the breath of the Lord, the redeemer will come to Jerusalem to buy back. 00:26:34.499 --> 00:26:38.819 Those in Israel who have turned from their sins says the Lord. 00:26:40.199 --> 00:26:43.259 This is my covenant with them, says the Lord. 00:26:44.009 --> 00:26:48.869 My spirit will not leave them and neither will these words I have given you. 00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:53.399 They will be on your lips and on the lips of your children and 00:26:53.399 --> 00:26:55.739 your children's children forever. 00:26:56.579 --> 00:26:58.409 I, the Lord have spoken. 00:27:00.389 --> 00:27:03.239 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:27:03.389 --> 00:27:04.589 Thank you for 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