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 --> 00:00:04.260 Day 200 and 51 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:10.299 isaiah's son of Amos received this message concerning the destruction of Babylon. 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:15.159 Raise a signal flag on a bear hilltop. 00:00:15.819 --> 00:00:17.919 Call up an army against Babylon. 00:00:18.579 --> 00:00:22.929 Wave your hand to encourage them as they march into the policies of the 00:00:22.929 --> 00:00:28.899 high and mighty I, the Lord have dedicated these soldiers for this task. 00:00:29.394 --> 00:00:34.254 Yes, I have called Mighty warriors to express my anger and they 00:00:34.259 --> 00:00:36.294 will rejoice when I am exalted. 00:00:37.404 --> 00:00:39.324 Hear the noise on the mountains. 00:00:39.894 --> 00:00:46.524 Listen, as the Vast Army's march, it is the noise and shouting of many nations. 00:00:46.824 --> 00:00:50.304 The Lord of heaven's armies has called this army together. 00:00:51.114 --> 00:00:55.734 They come from distant countries from beyond the farthest horizons. 00:00:56.469 --> 00:01:00.489 They are the Lord's weapons to carry out his anger with them. 00:01:00.489 --> 00:01:02.409 He will destroy the whole land. 00:01:03.609 --> 00:01:07.599 Scream in terror for the day of the Lord has arrived. 00:01:07.869 --> 00:01:10.449 The time for the almighty to destroy. 00:01:11.109 --> 00:01:13.629 Every arm is paralyzed with fear. 00:01:14.199 --> 00:01:17.709 Every heart melts and people are terrified. 00:01:18.309 --> 00:01:22.179 Pangs of anguish grip them like those of a woman in labor. 00:01:23.124 --> 00:01:25.254 They look helplessly at one another. 00:01:25.314 --> 00:01:27.354 Their faces a flame with fear. 00:01:28.104 --> 00:01:34.614 Foresee the day of the Lord is coming, the terrible day of his fury and fierce anger. 00:01:35.334 --> 00:01:39.414 The land will be made desolate and all the sinners destroyed with it, 00:01:39.984 --> 00:01:41.934 the heavens will be black above them. 00:01:42.294 --> 00:01:44.004 The stars will give no light. 00:01:44.694 --> 00:01:49.194 The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will provide no light. 00:01:50.784 --> 00:01:56.304 I, the Lord will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their sin. 00:01:57.174 --> 00:02:01.674 I will crush the arrogance of the proud and humble, the pride of the mighty. 00:02:02.544 --> 00:02:05.184 I will make people scarcer than gold. 00:02:05.754 --> 00:02:10.824 More rare than the fine gold of Ur, for I will shake the heavens. 00:02:11.484 --> 00:02:16.104 The earth will move from its place when the Lord of heaven's armies displays his 00:02:16.104 --> 00:02:18.084 wrath in the day of his fierce anger. 00:02:19.494 --> 00:02:23.184 Everyone in Babylon will run about like a hunted gazelle, 00:02:23.544 --> 00:02:25.164 like sheep without a shepherd. 00:02:25.974 --> 00:02:29.694 They will try to find their own people and flee to their own land. 00:02:30.444 --> 00:02:34.644 Anyone who is captured will be cut down, run through with a sword. 00:02:35.454 --> 00:02:38.904 Their little children will be dashed to death before their eyes. 00:02:39.384 --> 00:02:42.654 Their homes will be sacked and their wives will be raped. 00:02:43.809 --> 00:02:47.199 Look, I will stir up the meads against Babylon. 00:02:47.739 --> 00:02:51.129 They cannot be tempted by silver or bribed with gold. 00:02:51.669 --> 00:02:55.149 The attacking armies will shoot down the young men with arrows. 00:02:55.749 --> 00:03:01.179 They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for children. 00:03:02.349 --> 00:03:05.229 Babylon the most glorious of kingdoms. 00:03:05.529 --> 00:03:09.969 The flower of Chaldean pride will be devastated like Sodom and 00:03:09.969 --> 00:03:11.979 Gomorrah when God destroyed them. 00:03:12.579 --> 00:03:14.919 Babylon will never be inhabited again. 00:03:15.579 --> 00:03:19.059 It will remain empty for generation after generation. 00:03:19.869 --> 00:03:25.209 Nomads will refuse to camp there, and shepherds will not bed down their sheep. 00:03:26.079 --> 00:03:30.069 Desert animals will move into the ruined city, and the houses will 00:03:30.069 --> 00:03:32.289 be haunted by howling creatures. 00:03:32.979 --> 00:03:37.869 Owls will live among the ruins and wild goats will go there to dance. 00:03:38.469 --> 00:03:42.369 Hyenas will howl in its fortresses and jackals will make 00:03:42.369 --> 00:03:44.529 dens in its luxurious palaces. 00:03:45.519 --> 00:03:47.529 Babylon's days are numbered. 00:03:48.189 --> 00:03:53.289 It's time of destruction will soon arrive, but the Lord will have 00:03:53.289 --> 00:03:55.509 mercy on the descendants of Jacob. 00:03:56.079 --> 00:03:58.599 He will choose Israel as his special people. 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:03.319 Once again, he will bring them back to settle once again in their own land. 00:04:04.569 --> 00:04:08.979 People from many different nations will come and join them there and 00:04:08.979 --> 00:04:10.989 unite with the people of Israel. 00:04:11.799 --> 00:04:15.699 The nations of the world will help the people of Israel to return, 00:04:16.089 --> 00:04:19.479 and those who come to live in the Lord's land will serve them. 00:04:19.709 --> 00:04:24.729 Those who captured Israel will themselves be captured and Israel 00:04:24.729 --> 00:04:26.409 will rule over its enemies. 00:04:27.234 --> 00:04:31.464 In that wonderful day, when the Lord gives his people rest from sorrow 00:04:31.464 --> 00:04:37.104 and fear from slavery and chains, you will taunt the king of Babylon. 00:04:38.034 --> 00:04:42.714 You will say the mighty man has been destroyed. 00:04:43.104 --> 00:04:48.504 Yes, your insolence is ended for the Lord has crushed your wicked 00:04:48.504 --> 00:04:51.024 power and broken your evil rule. 00:04:51.654 --> 00:04:56.754 You struck the people with endless blows of rage and held the nations in your 00:04:56.754 --> 00:04:59.544 angry grip with unrelenting tyranny. 00:05:00.444 --> 00:05:03.474 But finally, the earth is at rest and quiet. 00:05:04.134 --> 00:05:05.784 Now it can sing again. 00:05:06.564 --> 00:05:11.094 Even the trees of the forest, the Cyprus trees, and the cedars of 00:05:11.094 --> 00:05:13.884 Lebanon, sing out this joyous song. 00:05:14.634 --> 00:05:19.464 Since you have been cut down, no one will come now to cut us down. 00:05:20.634 --> 00:05:23.844 In the place of the dead, there is excitement over your arrival. 00:05:24.294 --> 00:05:28.314 The spirits of world leaders and mighty kings long dead stand 00:05:28.314 --> 00:05:30.744 up to see you with one voice. 00:05:30.749 --> 00:05:31.854 They all cry out. 00:05:32.244 --> 00:05:34.584 Now you are as weak as we are. 00:05:35.124 --> 00:05:37.824 Your might and power were buried with you. 00:05:38.304 --> 00:05:41.964 The sound of the harp in your palace has ceased Now. 00:05:41.964 --> 00:05:45.324 Maggots are your sheet and worms your blanket. 00:05:46.464 --> 00:05:49.914 How you are fallen from heaven, o shining star. 00:05:50.124 --> 00:05:55.164 Son of the morning, you have been thrown down to the earth, you who 00:05:55.164 --> 00:05:57.264 destroyed the nations of the world. 00:05:57.954 --> 00:06:01.704 For you said to yourself, I will ascend to heaven and set 00:06:01.704 --> 00:06:04.074 my throne above God's stars. 00:06:04.584 --> 00:06:08.754 I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north. 00:06:09.594 --> 00:06:14.964 I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the most high instead. 00:06:15.654 --> 00:06:20.574 You will be brought down to the place of the debt down to its lowest depths. 00:06:21.294 --> 00:06:25.944 Everyone there will stare at you and ask, can this be the one 00:06:25.949 --> 00:06:29.454 who shook the earth and made the kingdoms of the world tremble? 00:06:30.294 --> 00:06:34.674 Is this the one who destroyed the world and made it into a wasteland? 00:06:35.154 --> 00:06:39.834 Is this the king who demolished the world's greatest cities and 00:06:39.834 --> 00:06:41.994 had no mercy on his prisoners? 00:06:43.209 --> 00:06:48.219 The kings of the nation's lion stately glory each in his own tomb. 00:06:48.789 --> 00:06:52.749 But you will be thrown out of your grave like a worthless branch, 00:06:53.349 --> 00:06:55.239 like a corpse trampled underfoot. 00:06:55.539 --> 00:06:57.519 You will be dumped into a mass grave. 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:01.659 With those killed in battle, you will descend to the pit. 00:07:02.349 --> 00:07:07.059 You will not be given a proper burial for you have destroyed your 00:07:07.059 --> 00:07:09.129 nation and slaughtered your people. 00:07:09.999 --> 00:07:14.079 The descendants of such an evil person will never again receive honor, 00:07:14.739 --> 00:07:19.419 kill this man's children, let them die because of their father's sins. 00:07:19.749 --> 00:07:24.039 They must not rise and conquer the earth, filling the world with their cities. 00:07:25.209 --> 00:07:27.939 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies says. 00:07:28.689 --> 00:07:32.259 I myself have risen against Babylon. 00:07:32.739 --> 00:07:37.269 I will destroy its children and its children's children, says the Lord. 00:07:37.794 --> 00:07:43.254 I will make Babylon a desolate place of owls filled with swamps and marshes. 00:07:43.914 --> 00:07:46.884 I will sweep the land with the broom of destruction. 00:07:47.784 --> 00:07:51.144 I the Lord of heaven's armies have spoken. 00:07:52.764 --> 00:07:56.094 The Lord of heaven's armies has sworn this oath. 00:07:57.144 --> 00:07:59.694 It will all happen as I have planned. 00:08:00.294 --> 00:08:02.244 It will be as I have decided. 00:08:02.904 --> 00:08:05.784 I will break the Assyrians when they are in Israel. 00:08:06.234 --> 00:08:08.514 I will trample them on my mountains. 00:08:09.174 --> 00:08:14.604 My people will no longer be their slaves nor bow down under their heavy loads. 00:08:15.504 --> 00:08:20.454 I have a plan for the whole earth, a hand of judgment upon all the nations. 00:08:21.174 --> 00:08:23.454 The Lord of heaven's armies has spoken. 00:08:23.784 --> 00:08:27.834 Who can change his plans when his hand is raised? 00:08:28.014 --> 00:08:29.394 Who can stop him? 00:08:30.999 --> 00:08:34.449 This message came to me the year King Ahaz died. 00:08:35.499 --> 00:08:41.829 Do not rejoice EU Philistines that the rod that struck you is broken, that the 00:08:41.834 --> 00:08:47.769 king who attacked you is dead for from that snake, a more poisonous snake will 00:08:47.769 --> 00:08:51.189 be born, a fiery serpent to destroy you. 00:08:51.999 --> 00:08:54.219 I will feed the poor in my pasture. 00:08:54.579 --> 00:08:56.739 The needy will lie down in peace. 00:08:57.309 --> 00:09:01.719 But as for you, I will wipe you out with famine and destroy the 00:09:01.719 --> 00:09:05.019 few who remain whale at the gates. 00:09:05.439 --> 00:09:08.589 Weep in the cities melt with fear. 00:09:08.589 --> 00:09:10.029 EU Philistines. 00:09:10.809 --> 00:09:14.019 A powerful army comes like smoke from the north. 00:09:14.319 --> 00:09:17.289 Each soldier rushes forward, eager to fight. 00:09:18.369 --> 00:09:20.889 What should we tell the Philistine messengers? 00:09:21.489 --> 00:09:24.969 Tell them the Lord has built Jerusalem. 00:09:25.659 --> 00:09:28.869 Its walls will give refuge to his oppressed people. 00:09:30.489 --> 00:09:32.889 This message came to me concerning Moab. 00:09:33.999 --> 00:09:38.019 In one night, the town of R will be leveled and the city 00:09:38.019 --> 00:09:39.519 of Kir will be destroyed. 00:09:40.269 --> 00:09:43.719 Your people will go to their temple in Daon to mourn. 00:09:44.349 --> 00:09:47.049 They will go to their sacred shrines to weep. 00:09:47.889 --> 00:09:52.809 They will wail for the fate of nibo and MEbA, shaving their heads in 00:09:52.809 --> 00:09:54.819 sorrow and cutting off their beards. 00:09:55.494 --> 00:10:00.714 They will wear burlap as they wander The streets from every home and public 00:10:00.714 --> 00:10:02.904 square will come, the sound of whaling. 00:10:03.504 --> 00:10:06.894 The people of Heshbon and Alala will cry out. 00:10:07.344 --> 00:10:10.674 Their voices will be heard as far away as JHAs. 00:10:11.244 --> 00:10:15.294 The bravest warriors of Moab will cry out in utter terror. 00:10:15.654 --> 00:10:17.394 They will be helpless with fear. 00:10:18.624 --> 00:10:20.754 My heart weeps for Moab. 00:10:21.414 --> 00:10:26.364 Its people flee to Zoar and Agla, CIA weeping. 00:10:26.724 --> 00:10:28.224 They climb the road to lu. 00:10:29.274 --> 00:10:33.384 Their cries of distress can be heard all along the road to em. 00:10:34.314 --> 00:10:36.624 Even the waters of Nim rim are dried up. 00:10:37.434 --> 00:10:39.234 The grassy banks are scorched. 00:10:39.654 --> 00:10:41.304 The tender plants are gone. 00:10:41.664 --> 00:10:43.434 Nothing green remains. 00:10:44.424 --> 00:10:48.804 The people grab their possessions and carry them across the ravine of willows. 00:10:49.794 --> 00:10:53.784 A cry of distress echoes through the land of Moab, from one end 00:10:53.784 --> 00:10:57.024 to the other, from Egle to beer. 00:10:57.024 --> 00:11:02.364 Elam, the stream near Dban runs red with blood, but I am 00:11:02.369 --> 00:11:04.284 still not finished with Dban. 00:11:04.824 --> 00:11:09.984 Lions will hunt down the survivors, both those who try to escape and those 00:11:09.984 --> 00:11:16.284 who remain behind send lambs from Sila as tribute to the ruler of the land. 00:11:16.839 --> 00:11:20.229 Send them through the desert to the mountain of beautiful Zion. 00:11:20.739 --> 00:11:24.729 The women of Moab are left like homeless birds at the shallow 00:11:24.729 --> 00:11:26.529 crossings of the Arnon River. 00:11:27.129 --> 00:11:28.839 Help us, they cry. 00:11:29.289 --> 00:11:31.149 Defend us against our enemies. 00:11:31.599 --> 00:11:34.089 Protect us from their relentless attack. 00:11:34.419 --> 00:11:36.879 Do not betray us now that we have escaped. 00:11:37.419 --> 00:11:41.619 Let our refugees stay among you, hide them from our enemies 00:11:41.619 --> 00:11:42.849 until the terror is passed. 00:11:44.394 --> 00:11:48.384 When oppression and destruction have ended and enemy Raiders have 00:11:48.384 --> 00:11:53.634 disappeared, then God will establish one of David's descendants as king. 00:11:54.294 --> 00:11:56.754 He will rule with mercy and truth. 00:11:57.204 --> 00:12:01.554 He will always do what is just and be eager to do what is right. 00:12:02.784 --> 00:12:08.844 We have heard about proud Moab about its pride and arrogance and rage, but 00:12:08.844 --> 00:12:10.884 all that boasting has disappeared. 00:12:11.829 --> 00:12:13.944 The entire land of Moab Weeps. 00:12:14.184 --> 00:12:19.674 Yes, everyone in Moab mourns for the cakes of raisins from Kir. 00:12:20.334 --> 00:12:21.774 They are all gone now. 00:12:22.524 --> 00:12:24.864 The farms of Heshbon are abandoned. 00:12:25.524 --> 00:12:27.834 The vineyards at Sigma are destroyed. 00:12:28.524 --> 00:12:30.954 The rulers of the nations have broken down. 00:12:30.954 --> 00:12:33.444 Moab, that beautiful grapevine. 00:12:34.224 --> 00:12:38.634 Its tendrils spread north as far as the town of Jaser and trailed 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:40.404 eastward into the wilderness. 00:12:40.854 --> 00:12:45.024 Its chutes reached so far west that they crossed over the dead sea. 00:12:46.194 --> 00:12:49.854 So now I weep for jaser and the vineyards of Sigma. 00:12:50.394 --> 00:12:55.164 My tears will flow for hessan and ela, there are no more 00:12:55.169 --> 00:12:57.264 shouts of joy over your summer. 00:12:57.269 --> 00:12:59.724 Fruits and harvest gone. 00:12:59.724 --> 00:13:03.444 Now is the gladness gone, the joy of harvest. 00:13:04.074 --> 00:13:06.144 There will be no singing in the vineyards. 00:13:06.429 --> 00:13:10.839 No more happy shouts, no treading of grapes in the wine presses. 00:13:11.619 --> 00:13:14.259 I have ended all their harvest joys. 00:13:14.979 --> 00:13:18.519 My heart's cry for Moab is like a lament on a harp. 00:13:19.299 --> 00:13:22.089 I am filled with anguish for Kir Herseth. 00:13:22.659 --> 00:13:26.349 The people of Moab will worship at their pagan shrines, but 00:13:26.349 --> 00:13:27.759 it will do them no good. 00:13:28.389 --> 00:13:31.779 They will cry to the gods in their temples, but no one 00:13:31.779 --> 00:13:33.339 will be able to save them. 00:13:34.599 --> 00:13:39.489 The Lord has already said these things about Moab in the past, but now the 00:13:39.489 --> 00:13:45.549 Lord says, within three years counting, each day, the glory of Moab will 00:13:45.549 --> 00:13:51.939 be ended from its great population, only a feeble few will be left alive. 00:13:53.469 --> 00:13:56.529 This message came to me concerning Damascus. 00:13:57.579 --> 00:14:01.119 Look, the city of Damascus will disappear. 00:14:02.274 --> 00:14:04.254 It will become a heap of ruins. 00:14:05.004 --> 00:14:07.284 The towns of Aurora will be deserted. 00:14:08.364 --> 00:14:12.414 Flocks will graze in the streets and lie down undisturbed with 00:14:12.414 --> 00:14:13.944 no one to chase them away. 00:14:14.754 --> 00:14:20.514 The fortified towns of Israel will also be destroyed and the royal power of Damascus 00:14:20.514 --> 00:14:26.814 will end all that Remains of Syria will share the fate of Israel's departed glory 00:14:27.174 --> 00:14:29.274 declares the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:14:30.624 --> 00:14:32.934 That day, Israel's glory will grow. 00:14:32.964 --> 00:14:36.174 Dimm, its robust body will waste away. 00:14:36.924 --> 00:14:39.414 The whole land will look like a grain field. 00:14:39.414 --> 00:14:44.664 After the harvesters have gathered the grain, it will be desolate like 00:14:44.664 --> 00:14:46.794 the fields in the valley of em. 00:14:46.794 --> 00:14:51.234 After the harvest, only a few of its people will be left like 00:14:51.234 --> 00:14:53.004 stray olives left on a tree. 00:14:53.004 --> 00:14:57.564 After the harvest, only two or three remain in the highest branches. 00:14:57.954 --> 00:15:01.884 Four or five scattered here and there on the limbs, declares 00:15:01.884 --> 00:15:03.954 the Lord, the God of Israel. 00:15:05.154 --> 00:15:08.844 Then at last, the people will look to their creator and turn their 00:15:08.844 --> 00:15:10.824 eyes to the holy one of Israel. 00:15:11.844 --> 00:15:15.474 They will no longer look to their idols for help or worship 00:15:15.474 --> 00:15:17.154 what their own hands have made. 00:15:17.604 --> 00:15:22.164 They will never again bow down to their Asher poles or worship at 00:15:22.164 --> 00:15:23.874 the pagan shrines they have built. 00:15:24.924 --> 00:15:28.344 Their largest cities will be like a deserted forest. 00:15:28.794 --> 00:15:32.094 Like the land, the highes and Amorites abandoned. 00:15:32.364 --> 00:15:37.584 When the Israelites came here so long ago, it will be utterly desolate. 00:15:38.304 --> 00:15:38.844 Why? 00:15:39.594 --> 00:15:42.624 Because you have turned from the God who can save you. 00:15:43.464 --> 00:15:45.144 You have forgotten the rock. 00:15:45.144 --> 00:15:46.254 Who can hide you? 00:15:47.244 --> 00:15:52.734 You may plant the finest grapevines and import the most expensive seedlings They 00:15:52.734 --> 00:15:54.804 may sprout on the day you set them out. 00:15:55.014 --> 00:15:59.844 Yes, they may blossom on the very morning, you plant them, but you 00:15:59.849 --> 00:16:02.064 will never pick any grapes from them. 00:16:02.844 --> 00:16:06.954 Your only harvest will be a load of grief and unrelieved pain. 00:16:08.214 --> 00:16:13.554 Listen, the armies of many nations roar like the roaring of the sea. 00:16:14.439 --> 00:16:19.539 Hear the thunder of the mighty forces as they rush forward, like thundering waves. 00:16:20.349 --> 00:16:23.889 But though they thunder like breakers on a beach, God will 00:16:23.894 --> 00:16:26.619 silence them and they will run away. 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:30.639 They will flee like chaff, scattered by the wind, like a 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.069 tumbleweed whirling before a storm. 00:16:34.059 --> 00:16:39.579 In the evening, Israel waits in terror, but by dawn its enemies are dead. 00:16:40.194 --> 00:16:43.764 This is the just reward of those who plunder us, a fitting 00:16:43.764 --> 00:16:45.864 end for those who destroy us. 00:16:47.454 --> 00:16:52.584 Listen, Ethiopia land of fluttering sails, that lies at the headwaters 00:16:52.589 --> 00:16:57.024 of the Nile that sends ambassadors in swift boats down the river. 00:16:57.984 --> 00:16:59.694 Go swift messengers. 00:16:59.964 --> 00:17:04.674 Take a message to a tall, smooth skinned people who are feared far and wide 00:17:04.914 --> 00:17:09.834 for their conquests and destruction, and whose land is divided by rivers. 00:17:10.974 --> 00:17:14.694 All you people of the world, everyone who lives on the earth. 00:17:15.354 --> 00:17:20.094 When I raise my battle flag on the mountain, look, when I 00:17:20.094 --> 00:17:25.524 blow the Ram's horn, listen, for the Lord has told me this. 00:17:26.754 --> 00:17:32.364 I will watch quietly from my dwelling place as quietly as the heat rises 00:17:32.364 --> 00:17:36.804 on a summer day or as the morning dew forms during the harvest, 00:17:37.434 --> 00:17:39.714 even before you begin your attack. 00:17:39.924 --> 00:17:44.964 While your plans are ripening like grapes, the Lord will cut off your new growth. 00:17:44.964 --> 00:17:50.304 With pruning shears, he will snip off and discard your spreading branches. 00:17:51.234 --> 00:17:55.314 Your mighty army will be left dead in the fields for the mountain 00:17:55.314 --> 00:17:57.204 vultures and wild animals. 00:17:58.164 --> 00:18:01.074 The vultures will tear at the corpses all summer. 00:18:01.824 --> 00:18:05.214 The wild animals will gnaw at the bones all winter. 00:18:06.564 --> 00:18:11.154 At that time, the Lord of heaven's armies will receive gifts from this land 00:18:11.154 --> 00:18:17.154 divided by rivers from this tall, smooth skinned people who are feared far and 00:18:17.154 --> 00:18:19.674 wide for their conquests and destruction. 00:18:20.439 --> 00:18:25.689 They will bring the gifts to Jerusalem where the Lord of heaven's armies dwells. 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:30.189 This message came to me concerning Egypt. 00:18:31.299 --> 00:18:35.109 Look, the Lord is advancing against Egypt. 00:18:35.379 --> 00:18:37.089 Riding on a swift cloud. 00:18:37.749 --> 00:18:43.149 The idols of Egypt tremble the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear. 00:18:44.349 --> 00:18:49.479 I will make Egyptian fight against Egyptian brother, against brother, 00:18:49.779 --> 00:18:55.869 neighbor against neighbor, city, against city, province, against province. 00:18:56.529 --> 00:19:00.399 The Egyptians will lose heart and I will confuse their plans. 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:06.519 They will plead with their idols for wisdom and call on spirits, mediums, and 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:08.679 those who consult the spirits of the dead. 00:19:09.699 --> 00:19:13.209 I will hand Egypt over to a hard, cruel master. 00:19:13.899 --> 00:19:18.939 A fierce king will rule them, says the Lord, the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:19:20.049 --> 00:19:23.769 The waters of the Nile will fail to rise and flood the fields. 00:19:24.429 --> 00:19:26.799 The riverbed will be parched and dry. 00:19:27.339 --> 00:19:32.679 The canals of the Nile will dry up and the streams of Egypt will stink with rotting 00:19:32.679 --> 00:19:38.139 reeds and rushes all the greenery along the river bank, and all the crops along 00:19:38.139 --> 00:19:40.479 the river will dry up and blow away. 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:43.719 The fishermen will lament for lack of work. 00:19:44.379 --> 00:19:47.919 Those who cast hooks into the Nile will groan, and those 00:19:47.919 --> 00:19:49.629 who use nets will lose heart. 00:19:50.469 --> 00:19:54.819 There will be no flax for the harvesters, no thread for the weavers. 00:19:55.509 --> 00:19:59.949 They will be in despair and all the workers will be sick at heart. 00:20:01.059 --> 00:20:05.889 What fools are the officials ofan their best counsel to the king 00:20:05.889 --> 00:20:07.959 of Egypt is stupid and wrong. 00:20:08.544 --> 00:20:11.304 Will they still boast to Pharaoh of their wisdom? 00:20:11.814 --> 00:20:15.234 Will they dare brag about all their wise ancestors? 00:20:15.984 --> 00:20:17.964 Where are your wise counselors? 00:20:17.969 --> 00:20:18.534 Pharaoh? 00:20:19.254 --> 00:20:23.244 Let them tell you what God plans, what the Lord of heaven's 00:20:23.244 --> 00:20:25.554 armies is going to do to Egypt. 00:20:26.364 --> 00:20:31.164 The officials of zoon are fools, and the officials of Memphis are deluded. 00:20:32.004 --> 00:20:34.824 The leaders of the people have led Egypt astray. 00:20:35.589 --> 00:20:39.459 The Lord has sent a spirit of foolishness on them, so all 00:20:39.459 --> 00:20:41.109 their suggestions are wrong. 00:20:41.829 --> 00:20:45.639 They cause Egypt to stagger like a drunk in his vomit. 00:20:46.329 --> 00:20:48.159 There is nothing Egypt can do. 00:20:48.489 --> 00:20:49.569 All are helpless. 00:20:50.019 --> 00:20:54.789 The head and the tail, the noble palm branch and the lowly reed. 00:20:55.959 --> 00:20:59.259 In that day, the Egyptians will be as weak as women. 00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:02.799 They will cower in fear beneath the Upraised fist of 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:04.359 the Lord of Heaven's armies. 00:21:05.244 --> 00:21:08.334 Just to speak the name of Israel will terrorize them. 00:21:08.664 --> 00:21:12.414 For the Lord of Heaven's armies has laid out his plans against them. 00:21:13.614 --> 00:21:17.964 In that day five of Egypt cities will follow the Lord of Heaven's armies. 00:21:18.444 --> 00:21:20.484 They will even begin to speak Hebrew. 00:21:20.754 --> 00:21:23.994 The language of Canaan, one of these cities will be 00:21:23.994 --> 00:21:26.634 Heliopolis, the city of the Sun. 00:21:27.624 --> 00:21:32.664 In that day, there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and there will 00:21:32.664 --> 00:21:35.004 be a monument to the Lord at its border. 00:21:35.634 --> 00:21:39.414 It will be a sign and a witness that the Lord of heaven's armies 00:21:39.419 --> 00:21:41.424 is worshiped in the land of Egypt. 00:21:42.114 --> 00:21:46.764 When the people cry to the Lord for help against those who oppress them, he will 00:21:46.764 --> 00:21:49.194 send them a savior who will rescue them. 00:21:50.034 --> 00:21:52.854 The Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians. 00:21:53.454 --> 00:21:53.964 Yes. 00:21:54.339 --> 00:21:58.839 They will know the Lord and will give their sacrifices and offerings to him. 00:21:59.829 --> 00:22:02.529 They will make a vow to the Lord and will keep it. 00:22:03.309 --> 00:22:08.859 The Lord will strike Egypt and then he will bring healing for the Egyptians 00:22:08.864 --> 00:22:13.869 will turn to the Lord and he will listen to their pleas and heal them. 00:22:15.009 --> 00:22:18.789 In that day, Egypt and assy will be connected by a highway. 00:22:19.779 --> 00:22:24.159 The Egyptians and Assyrians will move freely between their lands and they 00:22:24.159 --> 00:22:27.129 will both worship God In that day. 00:22:27.134 --> 00:22:30.819 Israel will be the third along with Egypt and Assyria. 00:22:31.449 --> 00:22:33.489 A blessing in the midst of the earth. 00:22:34.239 --> 00:22:38.769 For the Lord of Heaven's, armies will say, blessed be Egypt. 00:22:38.859 --> 00:22:39.729 My people. 00:22:40.479 --> 00:22:42.189 Blessed be Assyria. 00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:43.839 The land I have made. 00:22:44.529 --> 00:22:47.949 Blessed be Israel my special possession. 00:22:49.659 --> 00:22:54.129 In the year when King Saigon of Assyria sent his commander in chief 00:22:54.129 --> 00:22:59.349 to capture the Philistine city of Ashdod, the Lord told Isaiah, son of 00:22:59.349 --> 00:23:04.569 Amos, take off the burlap you have been wearing and remove your sandals. 00:23:05.289 --> 00:23:08.949 Isaiah did as he was told, and walked around naked and barefoot. 00:23:10.149 --> 00:23:15.579 Then the Lord said, my servant Isaiah has been walking around naked and 00:23:15.584 --> 00:23:17.559 barefoot for the last three years. 00:23:18.129 --> 00:23:22.269 This is a sign, a symbol of the terrible troubles I will bring 00:23:22.269 --> 00:23:27.219 upon Egypt and Ethiopia for the King of Assyria will take away the 00:23:27.219 --> 00:23:29.829 Egyptians and Ethiopians as prisoners. 00:23:30.459 --> 00:23:35.319 He will make them walk naked and barefoot, both young and old. 00:23:35.739 --> 00:23:38.739 Their buttocks beared to the shame of Egypt. 00:23:39.399 --> 00:23:43.089 Then the Philistines will be thrown into panic for they counted 00:23:43.089 --> 00:23:47.019 on the power of Ethiopia and boasted of their allies in Egypt. 00:23:47.484 --> 00:23:52.584 They will say, if this can happen to Egypt, what chance do we have? 00:23:53.184 --> 00:23:57.024 We were counting on Egypt to protect us from the King of Assyria. 00:23:59.244 --> 00:24:02.094 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:24:02.244 --> 00:24:03.444 Thank you for joining us. 00:24:03.444 --> 00:24:03.504 I.