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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 25 through 27. Chapter 25 O

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Lord, you are my God, I will exalt you, I will

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praise your name, for you have done wonderful

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things. Your counsels of old are faithfulness

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and truth, for you have made a city a ruin, a

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fortified city a ruin. A palace of foreigners

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to be a city no more. It will never be rebuilt.

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Therefore the strong people will glorify you.

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The city of the terrible nations will fear you.

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For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength

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to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the

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storm, a shade from the heat. For the blast of

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the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

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He will reduce the noise of aliens as heat in

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a dry place, as heat in the shadow of a cloud.

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The song of the terrible ones will be diminished.

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And in this mountain the Lord of hosts will make

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for all people a feast of choice pieces, a feast

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of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow,

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of well -refined wines on the lees. And he will

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destroy on this mountain the surface of the covering

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cast over all people. and the veil that is spread

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over all nations he will swallow up death forever

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and the lord god will wipe away tears from all

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faces the rebuke of his people he will take away

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from all the earth for the lord has spoken and

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it will be said in that day behold this is our

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god we have waited for him and he will save us

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this is the lord we have waited for him we will

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be glad and rejoice in his salvation for on this

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mountain the hand of the lord will rest And Moab

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shall be trampled down under him, as straw is

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trampled down for the refuse heap. And he will

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spread out his hands in their midst as a swimmer

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reaches out to swim. And he will bring down their

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pride, together with the trickery of their hands,

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the fortress of the high fort of your walls.

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He will bring down, lay low, and bring to the

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ground, down to the dust. Chapter 26 In that

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day this song will be sung in the land of Judah.

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We have a strong city. God will appoint salvation

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for walls and bulwarks. Open the gates, that

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the righteous nation which keeps the truth may

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enter in. You will keep him in perfect peace,

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whose mind is stayed on you. Because he trusts

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in you, trust in the Lord forever. For in Yah

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the Lord is everlasting strength. For he brings

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down those who dwell on high. The lofty city,

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he lays it low. He lays it low to the ground.

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He brings it down to the dust. The foot shall

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tread it down, the feet of the poor and the steps

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of the needy. The way of the just is uprightness.

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O most upright, you weigh the path of the just.

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Yes, in the way of your judgment. O Lord, we

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have waited for you. The desire of our soul is

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for your name and for the remembrance of you.

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With my soul I have desired you in the night.

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Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek you early.

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For when your judgments are in the earth, the

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inhabitants of the world will learn. righteousness.

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Let grace be shown to the wicked, yet he will

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not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness

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he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the

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majesty of the Lord. Lord, when your hand is

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lifted up, they will not see, but they will see

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and be ashamed for their envy of people. Yes,

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the fire of your enemies shall devour them. Lord,

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you will establish peace for us, for you have

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also done all our works in us. O Lord our God,

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masters besides you have had dominion over us,

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but by you only we make mention of your name.

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They are dead, they will not live. They are deceased,

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they will not rise. Therefore you have punished

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and destroyed them, and made all their memory

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to perish. You have increased the nation, O Lord,

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you have increased the nation. You are glorified,

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you have expanded all the borders of the land.

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Lord, in trouble they have visited you. They

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poured out a prayer, when your chastening was

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upon them. As a woman with child is in pain and

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cries out in her pangs, when she draws near the

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time of her delivery, so have we been in your

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sight, O Lord. We have been with child, we have

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been in pain. We have, as it were, brought forth

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wind. We have not accomplished any deliverance

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in the earth, nor have the inhabitants of the

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world fallen. your dead shall live together with

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my dead body they shall arise awake and sing

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you who dwell in dust for your dew is like the

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dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the

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dead come my people enter your chambers and shut

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your doors behind you hide yourself as it were

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for a little moment until the indignation is

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past for behold the lord comes out of his place

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to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their

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iniquity the earth will also disclose her blood

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and will no more cover her slain chapter twenty

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seven in that day the lord with his severe sword

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great and strong will punish leviathan the fleeing

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serpent leviathan the twisted serpent and he

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will slay the reptile that is in the sea in that

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day sing to her a vineyard of red wine I, the

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Lord, keep it. I water it every moment, lest

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any hurt it. I keep it night and day. Fury is

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not in me. Who would set briars and thorns against

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me in battle? I would go through them, I would

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burn them together. Or let him take hold of my

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strength, that he may make peace with me, and

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he shall make peace with me. Those who come,

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he shall cause to take root in Jacob. Israel

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shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the

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world with fruit. Has he struck Israel as he

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struck those who struck him? Or has he been slain

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according to the slaughter of those who were

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slain by him? In measure, by sending it away,

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you contended with it. He removes it by his rough

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wind, in the day of the east wind. Therefore

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by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered.

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And this is all the fruit of taking away his

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sin. When he makes all the stones of the altar

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like chalk stones that are beaten to dust, wooden

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images and incense altars shall not stand. Yet

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the fortified city will be desolate, the habitation

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forsaken and left like a wilderness. There the

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calf will feed, and there it will lie down and

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consume its branches. When its bows are withered,

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they will be broken off. The women come and set

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them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding.

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Therefore he who made them will not have mercy

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on them, and he who formed them will show them

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no favor. And it shall come to pass in that day

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that the Lord will thresh from the channel of

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the river to the brook of Egypt, and you will

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be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.

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So it shall be in that day the great trumpet

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will be blown. They will come who are about to

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perish in the land of Assyria. and they who are

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outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship

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the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem. I hope

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

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and I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow

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to continue on our journey. God bless you and

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have a great day.