WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.719 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:09.820 in a year. Today's reading is from Isaiah, chapters 00:00:09.820 --> 00:00:13.199 15 and 16, as well as chapters 18 through 20. 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:19.379 Chapter 15 The Burden Against Moab Because in 00:00:19.379 --> 00:00:22.219 the night, Ur of Moab is laid waste and destroyed. 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:25.839 Because in the night, Kir of Moab is laid waste 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:29.019 and destroyed. He has gone up to the temple and 00:00:29.019 --> 00:00:32.109 Dibon. to the high places to weep. Moab will 00:00:32.109 --> 00:00:35.329 wail over Nebo and over Medeba. On all their 00:00:35.329 --> 00:00:38.490 heads will be baldness, and every beard cut off. 00:00:38.810 --> 00:00:41.109 In their streets they will clothe themselves 00:00:41.109 --> 00:00:44.130 with sackcloth. On the tops of their houses and 00:00:44.130 --> 00:00:46.950 in their streets everyone will wail, weeping 00:00:46.950 --> 00:00:50.850 bitterly. Heshbon and Eliela will cry out. Their 00:00:50.850 --> 00:00:53.869 voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore 00:00:53.869 --> 00:00:56.609 the armed soldiers of Moab will cry out. His 00:00:56.609 --> 00:00:59.289 life will be burdensome to him. My heart will 00:00:59.289 --> 00:01:02.130 cry out for Moab, his fugitives shall flee to 00:01:02.130 --> 00:01:05.049 Zoar, like a three -year -old heifer, for by 00:01:05.049 --> 00:01:07.769 the ascent of Luhit they will go up with weeping, 00:01:07.930 --> 00:01:11.129 for in the way of Horonim they will raise up 00:01:11.129 --> 00:01:14.049 a cry of destruction, for the waters of Nimrim 00:01:14.049 --> 00:01:16.950 will be desolate, for the green grass has withered 00:01:16.950 --> 00:01:19.709 away. The grass fails, there is nothing green, 00:01:19.890 --> 00:01:22.930 therefore the abundance they have gained, and 00:01:22.930 --> 00:01:25.310 what they have laid up they will carry away to 00:01:25.310 --> 00:01:27.909 the brook of the willows. For the cry has gone 00:01:27.909 --> 00:01:31.030 all around the borders of Moab, its wailing to 00:01:31.030 --> 00:01:34.469 Eglim, and its wailing to Bir Elim. For the waters 00:01:34.469 --> 00:01:37.230 of Dimon will be full of blood, because I will 00:01:37.230 --> 00:01:40.489 bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him who escapes 00:01:40.489 --> 00:01:44.969 from Moab and on the remnant of the land. Chapter 00:01:44.969 --> 00:01:48.530 16 Send the Lamb to the ruler of the land, from 00:01:48.530 --> 00:01:51.049 Selah to the wilderness, to the mount of the 00:01:51.049 --> 00:01:53.879 daughter of Zion. For it shall be as a wandering 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:57.099 bird thrown out of the nest, so shall be the 00:01:57.099 --> 00:02:00.480 daughters of Moab at the fords of Arnon. Take 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.859 counsel, execute judgment, make your shadow like 00:02:03.859 --> 00:02:06.120 the night in the middle of the day. Hide the 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:09.259 outcasts, do not betray him who escapes. Let 00:02:09.259 --> 00:02:12.139 my outcasts dwell with you, O Moab, be a shelter 00:02:12.139 --> 00:02:14.860 to them from the face of the spoiler. For the 00:02:14.860 --> 00:02:18.060 extortioner is at an end, devastation ceases, 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:20.300 the oppressors are consumed out of the land. 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:23.120 In mercy the throne will be established, and 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.020 one will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle 00:02:26.020 --> 00:02:29.439 of David, judging and seeking justice and hastening 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:32.699 righteousness. We have heard of the pride of 00:02:32.699 --> 00:02:35.919 Moab. He is very proud of his haughtiness and 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:39.039 his pride and his wrath. But his lies shall not 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:42.659 be so. Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab. Everyone 00:02:42.659 --> 00:02:45.659 shall wail. For the foundations of Kir Haraseth 00:02:45.659 --> 00:02:48.930 you shall mourn. Surely they are stricken. For 00:02:48.930 --> 00:02:51.689 the fields of Hezbon languish, and the vine of 00:02:51.689 --> 00:02:54.310 Sibma. The lords of the nations have broken down 00:02:54.310 --> 00:02:57.110 its choice plants, which have reached to Jazer, 00:02:57.169 --> 00:02:59.830 and wandered through the wilderness. Her branches 00:02:59.830 --> 00:03:02.370 are stretched out, they are gone over the sea. 00:03:02.590 --> 00:03:05.870 Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibma. With 00:03:05.870 --> 00:03:08.250 the weeping of Jazer, I will drench you with 00:03:08.250 --> 00:03:11.569 my tears. O Hezbon and Eliela, for battle cries 00:03:11.569 --> 00:03:14.530 have fallen over your summer fruits and your 00:03:14.530 --> 00:03:17.819 harvest. Gladness is taken away. and joy from 00:03:17.819 --> 00:03:20.520 the plentiful field in the vineyards there will 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.780 be no singing nor will there be shouting no treaders 00:03:23.780 --> 00:03:26.500 will tread out wine in the presses i have made 00:03:26.500 --> 00:03:29.599 their shouting cease therefore my heart shall 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:32.659 resound like a harp for moab and my inner being 00:03:32.659 --> 00:03:36.319 for kir heres and it shall come to pass when 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:38.919 it is seen that moab is weary on the high place 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:41.860 that he will come to his sanctuary to pray but 00:03:41.860 --> 00:03:44.379 he will not prevail This is the word which the 00:03:44.379 --> 00:03:46.719 Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time. 00:03:46.900 --> 00:03:49.819 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, Within three 00:03:49.819 --> 00:03:52.740 years, as the years of a hired man, the glory 00:03:52.740 --> 00:03:55.759 of Moab will be despised with all the great multitude, 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:59.060 and the remnant will be very small and feeble. 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:04.699 Chapter 18 Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing 00:04:04.699 --> 00:04:07.139 wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:10.759 which sends ambassadors by sea even in vessels 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:14.300 of reed on the waters, saying, Go swift, messengers, 00:04:14.460 --> 00:04:17.339 to a nation tall and smooth of skin, to a people 00:04:17.339 --> 00:04:20.300 terrible from their beginning onward, a nation 00:04:20.300 --> 00:04:23.240 powerful and treading down, whose land the rivers 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:26.759 divide. All inhabitants of the world and dwellers 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.379 on the earth, when he lifts up a banner on the 00:04:29.379 --> 00:04:31.959 mountains, you see it, and when he blows a trumpet, 00:04:32.180 --> 00:04:34.819 you hear it. For so the Lord said to me, I will 00:04:34.819 --> 00:04:37.339 take my rest, and I will look from my dwelling 00:04:37.339 --> 00:04:40.620 place like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud 00:04:40.620 --> 00:04:43.620 of dew in the heat of harvest. For before the 00:04:43.620 --> 00:04:46.019 harvest, when the bud is perfect and the sour 00:04:46.019 --> 00:04:49.220 grape is ripening in the flower, he will both 00:04:49.220 --> 00:04:51.600 cut off the springs with pruning hooks and take 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:54.319 away and cut down the branches. They will be 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:56.379 left together for the mountain birds of prey 00:04:56.379 --> 00:04:59.220 and for the beasts of the earth. The birds of 00:04:59.220 --> 00:05:01.480 prey will summer on them, and all the beasts 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.379 of the earth will winter on them. In that time 00:05:04.379 --> 00:05:07.100 a present will be brought to the Lord of hosts, 00:05:07.300 --> 00:05:10.240 from a people tall and smooth of skin, and from 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:12.879 a people terrible from their beginning onward, 00:05:12.980 --> 00:05:15.860 a nation powerful and treading down, whose land 00:05:15.860 --> 00:05:18.660 the rivers divide, to the place of the name of 00:05:18.660 --> 00:05:23.279 the Lord of hosts, to Mount Zion. Chapter 19 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:27.699 The Burden Against Egypt Behold, the Lord rides 00:05:27.699 --> 00:05:30.879 on a swift cloud and will come into Egypt. The 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:33.720 idols of Egypt will totter at his presence, and 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.759 the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst. I 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:39.420 will set Egyptians against Egyptians. Everyone 00:05:39.420 --> 00:05:42.040 will fight against his brother and everyone against 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:45.180 his neighbor. City against city, kingdom against 00:05:45.180 --> 00:05:48.300 kingdom, the spirit of Egypt will fail in its 00:05:48.300 --> 00:05:51.019 midst. I will destroy their council, and they 00:05:51.019 --> 00:05:53.860 will consult the idols and the charmers, the 00:05:53.860 --> 00:05:56.129 mediums and the sorcerers. And the Egyptians 00:05:56.129 --> 00:05:58.449 I will give into the hand of a cruel master, 00:05:58.649 --> 00:06:01.449 and a fierce king will rule over them, says the 00:06:01.449 --> 00:06:04.370 Lord, the Lord of hosts. The waters will fail 00:06:04.370 --> 00:06:07.110 from the sea, and the river will be wasted and 00:06:07.110 --> 00:06:10.290 dried up. The rivers will turn foul, the brooks 00:06:10.290 --> 00:06:12.870 of defense will be emptied and dried up. The 00:06:12.870 --> 00:06:15.810 reeds and rushes will wither, the papyrus reeds 00:06:15.810 --> 00:06:18.610 by the river, by the mouth of the river. And 00:06:18.610 --> 00:06:21.050 everything sown by the river will wither, be 00:06:21.050 --> 00:06:24.290 driven away, and be no more. The fishermen also 00:06:24.290 --> 00:06:27.170 will mourn. All those will lament who cast hooks 00:06:27.170 --> 00:06:29.490 into the river, and they will languish who spread 00:06:29.490 --> 00:06:32.389 nets on the waters. Moreover, those who work 00:06:32.389 --> 00:06:35.089 in fine flax and those who weave fine fabric 00:06:35.089 --> 00:06:37.569 will be ashamed, and its foundations will be 00:06:37.569 --> 00:06:40.829 broken. All who make wages will be troubled of 00:06:40.829 --> 00:06:44.610 soul. Surely the princes of Zoan are fools. Pharaoh's 00:06:44.610 --> 00:06:47.610 wise counselors give foolish counsel. How do 00:06:47.610 --> 00:06:49.870 you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, 00:06:50.050 --> 00:06:53.149 the son of ancient kings? Where are they? Where 00:06:53.149 --> 00:06:55.860 are your wise men? let them tell you now and 00:06:55.860 --> 00:06:58.939 let them know what the lord of hosts has purposed 00:06:58.939 --> 00:07:02.160 against egypt the princes of zoan have become 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:05.579 fools the princes of nof are deceived they have 00:07:05.579 --> 00:07:09.120 also deluded egypt those who are the mainstay 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.339 of its tribes the lord has mingled a perverse 00:07:12.339 --> 00:07:15.160 spirit in her midst and they have caused egypt 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.560 to err in all her work as a drunken man staggers 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.279 in his vomit neither will there be any work for 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:25.199 egypt which the head or tail palm branch or borrush 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.720 may do. In that day Egypt will be like women, 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:31.800 and will be afraid and fear because of the waving 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:34.279 of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he waves 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:37.019 over it. And the land of Judah will be a terror 00:07:37.019 --> 00:07:39.860 to Egypt. Everyone who makes mention of it will 00:07:39.860 --> 00:07:42.279 be afraid in himself because of the counsel of 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:44.980 the Lord of hosts, which he has determined against 00:07:44.980 --> 00:07:48.399 it. In that day, five cities in the land of Egypt 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:50.459 will speak the language of Canaan, and swear 00:07:50.459 --> 00:07:53.259 by the Lord of hosts, one will be called the 00:07:53.259 --> 00:07:56.300 city of destruction. In that day there will be 00:07:56.300 --> 00:07:58.399 an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:01.399 of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border. 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.360 And it will be for a sign and for a witness to 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:06.920 the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:09.139 will cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, 00:08:09.180 --> 00:08:11.480 and he will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.800 and he will deliver them. Then the Lord will 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.120 be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:18.480 the Lord in that day, and will make sacrifice 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:21.319 and offering. Yes, they will make a vow to the 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:24.100 Lord and perform it. And the Lord will strike 00:08:24.100 --> 00:08:27.060 Egypt, He will strike and heal it. They will 00:08:27.060 --> 00:08:29.199 return to the Lord, and He will be entreated 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:31.920 by them and heal them. In that day there will 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.600 be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:37.139 will come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into 00:08:37.139 --> 00:08:40.080 Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:43.179 Assyrians. In that day Israel will be one of 00:08:43.179 --> 00:08:46.360 three with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:48.860 midst of the land, whom the Lord of hosts shall 00:08:48.860 --> 00:08:51.960 bless, saying, Blessed is Egypt my people, and 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:55.639 Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance. 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:01.200 Chapter 20 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:04.000 when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.480 he fought against Ashdod and took it, at the 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:09.159 same time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:11.899 Amoz, saying, Go and remove the sackcloth from 00:09:11.899 --> 00:09:14.419 your body and take your sandals off your feet. 00:09:14.580 --> 00:09:17.919 And he did so walking naked and barefoot. Then 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:20.639 the Lord said, Just as my servant Isaiah has 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:23.559 walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:26.980 and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia, so shall 00:09:26.980 --> 00:09:29.580 the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as 00:09:29.580 --> 00:09:32.600 prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives. young 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:35.799 and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:39.000 uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. Then they shall 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.960 be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia, their expectation, 00:09:42.379 --> 00:09:45.299 and Egypt, their glory. And the inhabitants of 00:09:45.299 --> 00:09:48.620 this territory will say in that day, Surely such 00:09:48.620 --> 00:09:51.480 is our expectation, wherever we flee for help, 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:54.159 to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And 00:09:54.159 --> 00:10:02.039 how shall we escape? I hope you enjoyed today's 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:04.360 reading as much as I did and I look forward to 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:06.299 seeing you again tomorrow to continue on our 00:10:06.299 --> 00:10:08.399 journey. God bless you and have a great day.