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Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're

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taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year. Today's reading is from the book of

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Isaiah, chapters 23 and 24. Chapter 23 The Burden

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Against Tyre Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for

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it is laid waste, so that there is no house,

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no harbor. From the land of Cyprus it is revealed

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to them. Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland,

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you merchants of Sidon. whom those who cross

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the sea have filled, and on great waters the

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grain of Shehor. The harvest of the river is

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her revenue, and she is a marketplace of the

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nations. Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has

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spoken, the strength of the sea saying, I do

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not labor nor bring forth children, neither do

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I rear young men nor bring up virgins. When the

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report reaches Egypt, they also will be in agony

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at the report of Tyre. Cross over to Tarshish.

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Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland! Is this

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your joyous city, whose antiquity is from ancient

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days, whose feet carried her far off to dwell?

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Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the

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crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose

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traders are the honorable of the earth? The Lord

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of hosts has proposed it, to bring to dishonor

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the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt

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all the honorable of the earth. Overflow through

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your land like the river, O daughter of Tarshish.

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There is no more strength. He stretched out his

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hand over the sea. He shook the kingdoms. The

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Lord has given a commandment against Canaan,

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to destroy its strongholds. And he said, You

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will rejoice no more, O you oppressed virgin,

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daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus.

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There also you will have no rest. Behold the

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land of the Chaldeans. This people, which was

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not, Assyria founded it for wild beasts of the

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desert. They set up its towers, they raised up

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its palaces, and brought it to ruin. Wail, you

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ships of Tarshish, for your strength is laid

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waste. Now it shall come to pass in that day

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that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according

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to the days of one king. At the end of seventy

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years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of

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the harlot. Take a harp, go about the city, you

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forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many

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songs, that you may be remembered. And it shall

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be at the end of seventy years that the Lord

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will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire

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and commit fornication with all the kingdoms

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of the world on the face of the earth. Her gain

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and her pay will be set apart for the Lord. It

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will not be treasured nor laid up, for her gain

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will be for those who dwell before the Lord to

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eat sufficiently and for fine clothing. Chapter

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24 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and

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makes it waste. distorts its surface and scatters

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abroad its inhabitants. And it shall be, as with

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the people, so with the priest, as with the servant,

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so with his master, as with the maid, so with

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her mistress, as with the buyer, so with the

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seller, as with the lender, so with the borrower,

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as with the creditor, so with the debtor. The

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land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered,

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for the Lord has spoken this word. The earth

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mourns and fades away, the world languishes and

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fades away. The haughty people of the earth languish.

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The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,

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because they have transgressed the laws, changed

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the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

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Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and

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those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore

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the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and

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few men are left. The new wine fails, the vine

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languishes, all the merry -hearted sigh. The

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mirth of the tambourine ceases. The noise of

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the jubilant ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

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They shall not drink wine with a song. Strong

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drink is bitter to those who drink it. The city

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of confusion is broken down. Every house is shut

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up so that none may go in. There is a cry for

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wine in the streets. All joy is darkened. The

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mirth of the land is gone. In the city desolation

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is left. And the gate is stricken with destruction.

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When it shall be thus in the midst of the land

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among the people, it shall be like the shaking

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of an olive tree, like the gleaning of grapes

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when the vintage is done. They shall lift up

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their voice, they shall sing. For the majesty

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of the Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

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Therefore glorify the Lord in the dawning light,

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the name of the Lord God of Israel in the coastlands

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of the sea. From the ends of the earth we have

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heard songs. Glory to the righteous. But I said,

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I am ruined, ruined. Woe to me! The treacherous

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dealers have dealt treacherously. Indeed, the

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treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

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Fear and the pit and the snare are upon you,

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O inhabitant of the earth. And it shall be that

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he who flees from the noise of the fear shall

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fall into the pit, and he who comes up from the

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midst of the pit shall be caught in the snare.

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For the windows from on high are open, and the

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foundations of the earth are shaken. the earth

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is violently broken the earth is split open the

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earth is shaken exceedingly the earth shall reel

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to and fro like a drunkard and shall totter like

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a hut its transgression shall be heavy upon it

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and it will fall and not rise again it shall

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come to pass in that day that the lord will punish

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on high the host of exalted ones and on the earth

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the kings of the earth they will be gathered

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together as prisoners are gathered in the pit

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and will be shut up in the prison. After many

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days they will be punished. Then the moon will

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be disgraced and the sun ashamed. For the Lord

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of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem

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and before his elders gloriously. I hope you

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enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and

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I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow to

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continue on our journey. God bless you and have

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a great day.