WEBVTT 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:09.060 in a year. Today's reading is from the book of 00:00:09.060 --> 00:00:12.140 Jeremiah, chapters 7 and 8, as well as 11 and 00:00:12.140 --> 00:00:16.039 12. Chapter 7. The word that came to Jeremiah 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:18.920 from the Lord, saying, Stand in the gate of the 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:21.879 Lord's house and proclaim there this word, and 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:24.719 say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah, 00:00:24.820 --> 00:00:27.920 who enter in at these gates to worship the Lord. 00:00:28.250 --> 00:00:30.730 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, 00:00:30.910 --> 00:00:33.649 amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause 00:00:33.649 --> 00:00:36.549 you to dwell in this place. Do not trust in these 00:00:36.549 --> 00:00:39.450 lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, 00:00:39.649 --> 00:00:41.810 the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord 00:00:41.810 --> 00:00:45.030 are these. For if you thoroughly amend your ways 00:00:45.030 --> 00:00:47.729 and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment 00:00:47.729 --> 00:00:50.509 between a man and his neighbor, if you do not 00:00:50.509 --> 00:00:52.969 oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the 00:00:52.969 --> 00:00:55.560 widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:59.079 place or walk after other gods to your hurt then 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:01.780 i will cause you to dwell in this place in the 00:01:01.780 --> 00:01:04.099 land that i gave to your fathers forever and 00:01:04.099 --> 00:01:07.400 ever behold you trust in lying words that cannot 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.620 profit will you steal murder commit adultery 00:01:10.620 --> 00:01:14.120 swear falsely burn incense to bail and walk after 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:17.090 other gods whom you do not know And then come 00:01:17.090 --> 00:01:19.629 and stand before me in this house, which is called 00:01:19.629 --> 00:01:22.469 by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all 00:01:22.469 --> 00:01:25.469 these abominations. Has this house, which is 00:01:25.469 --> 00:01:27.890 called by my name, become a den of thieves in 00:01:27.890 --> 00:01:31.689 your eyes? Behold I, even I, have seen it, says 00:01:31.689 --> 00:01:35.209 the Lord. But go now to my place, which was in 00:01:35.209 --> 00:01:38.150 Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and 00:01:38.150 --> 00:01:41.030 see what I did to it because of the wickedness 00:01:41.030 --> 00:01:43.640 of my people Israel. And now, because you have 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:46.400 done all these works, says the Lord, and I spoke 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:49.379 to you, rising up early and speaking, but you 00:01:49.379 --> 00:01:51.920 did not hear, and I called you, but you did not 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:54.920 answer. Therefore I will do to the house which 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.959 is called by my name, in which you trust, and 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.459 to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:03.900 as I have done to Shiloh. And I will cast you 00:02:03.900 --> 00:02:06.579 out of my sight, as I have cast out all your 00:02:06.579 --> 00:02:10.120 brethren, the whole posterity of Ephraim. Therefore 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:12.740 do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry 00:02:12.740 --> 00:02:15.620 or prayer for them, nor make intercession to 00:02:15.620 --> 00:02:19.000 me, for I will not hear you. Do you not see what 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.539 they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets 00:02:21.539 --> 00:02:24.819 of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, the fathers 00:02:24.819 --> 00:02:27.539 kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to 00:02:27.539 --> 00:02:29.819 make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they 00:02:29.819 --> 00:02:32.479 pour out drink offerings to other gods, that 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:35.439 they may provoke me to anger. Do they provoke 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:38.050 me to anger? says the Lord. do they not provoke 00:02:38.050 --> 00:02:41.669 themselves to the shame of their own faces therefore 00:02:41.669 --> 00:02:45.069 thus says the lord god behold my anger and my 00:02:45.069 --> 00:02:48.289 fury will be poured out on this place on man 00:02:48.289 --> 00:02:51.449 and on beast on the trees of the field and on 00:02:51.449 --> 00:02:54.090 the fruit of the ground and it will burn and 00:02:54.090 --> 00:02:57.229 not be quenched thus says the lord of hosts the 00:02:57.229 --> 00:03:00.039 god of israel Add your burnt offerings to your 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:02.819 sacrifices and eat meat. For I did not speak 00:03:02.819 --> 00:03:05.240 to your fathers or command them in the day that 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:07.560 I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:11.080 burnt offerings or sacrifices. But this is what 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:14.219 I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice, and 00:03:14.219 --> 00:03:16.560 I will be your God, and you shall be my people, 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:19.139 and walk in all the ways that I have commanded 00:03:19.139 --> 00:03:23.090 you, that it may be well with you. Yet they did 00:03:23.090 --> 00:03:25.750 not obey or incline their ear, but followed the 00:03:25.750 --> 00:03:28.210 counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, 00:03:28.349 --> 00:03:31.409 and went backward and not forward. Since the 00:03:31.409 --> 00:03:33.669 day that your fathers came out of the land of 00:03:33.669 --> 00:03:36.870 Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you 00:03:36.870 --> 00:03:40.009 all my servants, the prophets, daily rising up 00:03:40.009 --> 00:03:42.909 early and sending them. Yet they did not obey 00:03:42.909 --> 00:03:45.949 me or incline their ear, but stiffened their 00:03:45.949 --> 00:03:49.270 neck. They did worse than their fathers. Therefore 00:03:49.270 --> 00:03:52.449 you shall speak all these words to them. but 00:03:52.449 --> 00:03:54.969 they will not obey you. You shall also call to 00:03:54.969 --> 00:03:57.569 them, but they will not answer you. So you shall 00:03:57.569 --> 00:04:00.030 say to them, This is a nation that does not obey 00:04:00.030 --> 00:04:02.110 the voice of the Lord their God, nor receive 00:04:02.110 --> 00:04:05.330 correction. Truth has perished and has been cut 00:04:05.330 --> 00:04:08.789 off from their mouth. Cut off your hair and cast 00:04:08.789 --> 00:04:12.069 it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate 00:04:12.069 --> 00:04:14.830 heights. For the Lord has rejected and forsaken 00:04:14.830 --> 00:04:17.759 the generation of his wrath. For the children 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.439 of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:23.160 Lord. They have set their abominations in the 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.079 house which is called by my name to pollute it. 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:29.360 And they have built the high places of Topheth, 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.079 which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, 00:04:32.220 --> 00:04:34.639 to burn their sons and their daughters in the 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:37.600 fire, which I did not command, nor did it come 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:41.040 into my heart. Therefore, behold, the days are 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:43.740 coming, says the Lord, when it will no more be 00:04:43.740 --> 00:04:46.500 called Topheth or the valley of the son of Hinnom, 00:05:01.290 --> 00:05:17.689 Chapter 8 At that time, says the Lord, they shall 00:05:17.689 --> 00:05:20.329 bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and 00:05:20.329 --> 00:05:22.769 the bones of its princes and the bones of the 00:05:22.769 --> 00:05:25.149 priests and the bones of the prophets and the 00:05:25.149 --> 00:05:27.490 bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem out of 00:05:27.490 --> 00:05:29.870 their graves. They shall spread them before the 00:05:29.870 --> 00:05:32.370 sun and the moon and all the hosts of heaven, 00:05:32.490 --> 00:05:35.069 which they have loved and which they have served 00:05:35.069 --> 00:05:37.750 and after which they have walked, which they 00:05:37.750 --> 00:05:40.790 have sought and which they have worshipped. They 00:05:40.790 --> 00:05:43.129 shall not be gathered nor buried. They shall 00:05:43.129 --> 00:05:46.290 be like refuge on the face of the earth. Then 00:05:46.290 --> 00:05:48.889 death shall be chosen rather than life by all 00:05:48.889 --> 00:05:51.689 the residue of those who remain of this evil 00:05:51.689 --> 00:05:54.529 family, who remain in all the places where I 00:05:54.529 --> 00:05:57.529 have driven them, says the Lord of hosts. Moreover, 00:05:57.930 --> 00:06:00.910 you shall say to them, thus says the Lord, Will 00:06:00.910 --> 00:06:03.750 they fall and not rise? Will one turn away and 00:06:03.750 --> 00:06:06.910 not return? Why has this people slidden back, 00:06:07.129 --> 00:06:10.970 Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding? They hold 00:06:10.970 --> 00:06:14.689 fast to deceit. They refuse to return. I listened 00:06:14.689 --> 00:06:18.129 and heard, but they did not speak aright. No 00:06:18.129 --> 00:06:20.610 man repented of his wickedness, saying, What 00:06:20.610 --> 00:06:23.310 have I done? Everyone turned to his own course, 00:06:23.410 --> 00:06:26.610 as the horse rushes into the battle. Even the 00:06:26.610 --> 00:06:29.110 stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, 00:06:29.250 --> 00:06:31.949 and the turtle dove, the swift, and the swallow 00:06:31.949 --> 00:06:35.129 observe the time of their coming. But my people 00:06:35.129 --> 00:06:37.500 do not know the judgment of the Lord. How can 00:06:37.500 --> 00:06:39.819 you say we are wise and the law of the Lord is 00:06:39.819 --> 00:06:43.579 with us? Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly 00:06:43.579 --> 00:06:47.399 works falsehood. The wise men are ashamed, they 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.079 are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:52.740 the word of the Lord, so what wisdom do they 00:06:52.740 --> 00:06:55.620 have? Therefore I will give their wives to others, 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:58.220 and their fields to those who will inherit them. 00:06:58.379 --> 00:07:00.879 Because from the least even to the greatest, 00:07:01.139 --> 00:07:04.720 everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:08.339 even to the priest, everyone deals falsely, for 00:07:08.339 --> 00:07:10.620 they have healed the hurt of the daughter of 00:07:10.620 --> 00:07:13.779 my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when 00:07:13.779 --> 00:07:16.379 there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they 00:07:16.379 --> 00:07:19.180 had committed abomination? No, they were not 00:07:19.180 --> 00:07:22.439 at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.600 Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:28.120 In the time of their punishment they shall be 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:31.259 cast down, says the Lord. I will surely consume 00:07:31.259 --> 00:07:34.170 them, says the Lord. No grapes shall be on the 00:07:34.170 --> 00:07:37.189 vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf 00:07:37.189 --> 00:07:39.850 shall fade, and the things I have given them 00:07:39.850 --> 00:07:42.790 shall pass away from them. Why do we sit still? 00:07:43.250 --> 00:07:45.829 Assemble yourselves, and let us enter the fortified 00:07:45.829 --> 00:07:49.050 cities, and let us be silent there, for the Lord 00:07:49.050 --> 00:07:52.149 our God has put us to silence, and given us water 00:07:52.149 --> 00:07:55.209 of gall to drink, because we have sinned against 00:07:55.209 --> 00:07:58.350 the Lord. We looked for peace, but no good came, 00:07:58.529 --> 00:08:01.569 and for a time of health, and there was trouble. 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:04.959 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan. 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:07.939 The whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing 00:08:07.939 --> 00:08:10.560 of his strong ones, for they have come and devoured 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.279 the land and all that is in it, the city and 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.100 those who dwell in it. For behold, I will send 00:08:16.100 --> 00:08:19.180 serpents among you, vipers which cannot be charmed, 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.480 and they shall bite you, says the Lord. I would 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:25.620 comfort myself in sorrow, my heart is faint in 00:08:25.620 --> 00:08:29.100 me. Listen, the voice, the cry of the daughter 00:08:29.100 --> 00:08:32.539 of my people, from a far country. Is not the 00:08:32.539 --> 00:08:35.919 Lord in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:38.779 they provoked me to anger with their carved images 00:08:38.779 --> 00:08:42.539 with foreign idols? The harvest is past, the 00:08:42.539 --> 00:08:45.700 summer is ended, and we are not saved. For the 00:08:45.700 --> 00:08:47.759 hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt, 00:08:47.980 --> 00:08:51.059 I am mourning. Astonishment has taken hold of 00:08:51.059 --> 00:08:54.059 me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician 00:08:54.059 --> 00:08:57.480 there? Why then is there no recovery for the 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:01.559 health of the daughter of my people? Chapter 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:04.480 11 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:07.120 saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.299 speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants 00:09:09.299 --> 00:09:12.139 of Jerusalem, and say to them, Thus says the 00:09:12.139 --> 00:09:15.039 Lord God of Israel, Cursed is the man who does 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.840 not obey the words of this covenant, which I 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:20.299 commanded your fathers in the day I brought them 00:09:20.299 --> 00:09:22.840 out of the land of Egypt from the iron furnace, 00:09:23.059 --> 00:09:26.059 saying, Obey my voice and do according to all 00:09:26.059 --> 00:09:28.639 that I command you. So shall you be my people, 00:09:28.700 --> 00:09:31.429 and I will be your God. that I may establish 00:09:31.429 --> 00:09:33.570 the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, 00:09:33.730 --> 00:09:36.210 to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, 00:09:36.289 --> 00:09:39.909 as it is this day. And I answered and said, So 00:09:39.909 --> 00:09:42.850 be it, Lord. Then the Lord said to me, Proclaim 00:09:42.850 --> 00:09:45.649 all these words in the cities of Judah and in 00:09:45.649 --> 00:09:48.350 the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words 00:09:48.350 --> 00:09:51.049 of this covenant and do them. For I earnestly 00:09:51.049 --> 00:09:53.710 exhorted your fathers in the day I brought them 00:09:53.710 --> 00:09:56.730 up out of the land of Egypt, until this day. 00:09:57.070 --> 00:10:00.450 rising early and exhorting, saying, Obey my voice. 00:10:00.690 --> 00:10:04.250 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but 00:10:04.250 --> 00:10:06.710 everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart. 00:10:07.129 --> 00:10:09.690 Therefore I will bring upon them all the words 00:10:09.690 --> 00:10:12.129 of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, 00:10:12.250 --> 00:10:14.929 but which they have not done. And the Lord said 00:10:14.929 --> 00:10:17.690 to me, A conspiracy has been found among the 00:10:17.690 --> 00:10:20.289 men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.000 Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:49.169 of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods 00:10:49.169 --> 00:10:51.730 to whom they offer incense, but they will not 00:10:51.730 --> 00:10:54.289 save them at all in the time of their trouble. 00:10:54.450 --> 00:10:57.250 For according to the number of your cities were 00:10:57.250 --> 00:10:59.889 your gods, O Judah, and according to the number 00:10:59.889 --> 00:11:02.889 of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars 00:11:02.889 --> 00:11:06.230 to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense 00:11:06.230 --> 00:11:09.559 to Baal. So do not pray for these people, or 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:12.679 lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I will 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:15.480 not hear them in the time that they cry out to 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.720 me because of their trouble. What has my beloved 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.320 to do in my house, having done lewd deeds with 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:25.460 many? And the Holy Flesh has passed from you. 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:28.860 When you do evil, then you rejoice. The Lord 00:11:28.860 --> 00:11:32.200 called your name, Green Olive Tree, lovely and 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:35.009 of good fruit. with the noise of a great tumult 00:11:35.009 --> 00:11:38.470 he has kindled fire on it and its branches are 00:11:38.470 --> 00:11:41.549 broken for the lord of hosts who planted you 00:11:41.549 --> 00:11:44.529 has pronounced doom against you for the evil 00:11:44.529 --> 00:11:46.990 of the house of israel and of the house of judah 00:11:46.990 --> 00:11:49.789 which they have done against themselves to provoke 00:11:49.789 --> 00:11:53.610 me to anger in offering incense to baal now the 00:11:53.610 --> 00:11:56.169 lord gave me knowledge of it and i know it for 00:11:56.169 --> 00:11:59.269 you showed me their doings but i was like a docile 00:11:59.269 --> 00:12:02.200 lamb brought to the slaughter. And I did not 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:04.899 know that they had devised schemes against me, 00:12:04.940 --> 00:12:07.740 saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, 00:12:07.899 --> 00:12:10.820 and let us cut him off from the land of the living, 00:12:10.980 --> 00:12:14.059 that his name may be remembered no more. But, 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:17.700 O Lord of hosts, you who judge righteously, testing 00:12:17.700 --> 00:12:20.179 the mind and the heart, let me see your vengeance 00:12:20.179 --> 00:12:22.960 on them, for to you I have revealed my cause. 00:12:23.419 --> 00:12:26.080 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:29.379 of Anatoth, who seek your life, saying, Do not 00:12:29.379 --> 00:12:32.000 prophesy in the name of the Lord, lest you die 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.019 by our hand. Therefore, thus says the Lord of 00:12:35.019 --> 00:12:37.600 hosts, Behold, I will punish them. The young 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.399 men shall die by the sword, their sons and their 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:43.100 daughters shall die by famine, and there shall 00:12:43.100 --> 00:12:45.980 be no remnant of them, for I will bring catastrophe 00:12:45.980 --> 00:12:49.059 on the men of Anatoth even the year of their 00:12:49.059 --> 00:12:54.120 punishment. Chapter 12 Righteous are you, O Lord, 00:12:54.259 --> 00:12:57.259 when I plead with you. Yet let me talk with you 00:12:57.259 --> 00:12:59.799 about your judgments. Why does the way of the 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:02.399 wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:04.960 so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, 00:13:05.139 --> 00:13:08.240 they have taken root. They grow, yes, they bear 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:11.720 fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:15.039 their mind. But you, O Lord, know me. You have 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:17.259 seen me, and you have tested my heart toward 00:13:17.259 --> 00:13:20.259 you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.259 and prepare them for the day of slaughter. How 00:13:23.259 --> 00:13:26.039 long will the land mourn, and the herbs of every 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:29.529 field wither? The beasts and birds are consumed 00:13:29.529 --> 00:13:32.070 for the wickedness of those who dwell there, 00:13:32.190 --> 00:13:35.330 because they said, He will not see our final 00:13:35.330 --> 00:13:38.710 end. If you have run with the footmen and they 00:13:38.710 --> 00:13:41.429 have wearied you, then how can you contend with 00:13:41.429 --> 00:13:44.350 horses? And if in the land of peace in which 00:13:44.350 --> 00:13:46.909 you trusted they wearied you, then how will you 00:13:46.909 --> 00:13:50.090 do in the flood plain of the Jordan? For even 00:13:50.090 --> 00:13:52.649 your brothers, the house of your father, even 00:13:52.649 --> 00:13:55.009 they have dealt treacherously with you. Yes, 00:13:55.070 --> 00:13:57.480 they have called a multitude after you. Do not 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:00.220 believe them, even though they speak smooth words 00:14:00.220 --> 00:14:03.340 to you. I have forsaken my house, I have left 00:14:03.340 --> 00:14:05.940 my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved 00:14:05.940 --> 00:14:09.419 of my soul into the hand of her enemies. My heritage 00:14:09.419 --> 00:14:12.340 is to me like a lion in the forest. It cries 00:14:12.340 --> 00:14:15.659 out against me, therefore I have hated it. My 00:14:15.659 --> 00:14:19.179 heritage is to me like a speckled vulture. The 00:14:19.179 --> 00:14:22.620 vultures all around are against her. Come, assemble 00:14:22.620 --> 00:14:25.580 all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour. 00:14:25.980 --> 00:14:28.620 Many rulers have destroyed my vineyard. They 00:14:28.620 --> 00:14:31.399 have trodden my portion underfoot. They have 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.659 made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:38.019 They have made it desolate. Desolate it mourns 00:14:38.019 --> 00:14:41.179 to me. The whole land is made desolate. Because 00:14:41.179 --> 00:14:44.200 no one takes it to heart, the plunderers have 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:46.759 come on all the desolate heights in the wilderness. 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:49.879 For the sword of the Lord shall devour from one 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:52.120 end of the land to the other end of the land. 00:14:52.340 --> 00:14:55.440 No flesh shall have peace. They have sown wheat. 00:14:55.870 --> 00:14:59.009 but reaped thorns. They have put themselves to 00:14:59.009 --> 00:15:02.889 pain, but do not profit. But be ashamed of your 00:15:02.889 --> 00:15:05.610 harvest because of the fierce anger of the Lord. 00:15:06.009 --> 00:15:08.909 Thus says the Lord against all my evil neighbors 00:15:08.909 --> 00:15:11.309 who touch the inheritance, which I have caused 00:15:11.309 --> 00:15:14.149 my people Israel to inherit. Behold, I will pluck 00:15:14.149 --> 00:15:16.529 them out of their land and pluck out the house 00:15:16.529 --> 00:15:19.870 of Judah from among them. Then it shall be, after 00:15:19.870 --> 00:15:22.429 I have plucked them out, that I will return and 00:15:22.429 --> 00:15:24.529 have compassion on them and bring them back, 00:15:24.710 --> 00:15:26.710 everyone to his heritage and everyone to his 00:15:26.710 --> 00:15:30.029 land. And it shall be, if they will learn carefully 00:15:30.029 --> 00:15:33.309 the ways of my people, to swear by my name, as 00:15:33.309 --> 00:15:35.870 the Lord lives, as they taught my people to swear 00:15:35.870 --> 00:15:38.889 by Baal, then they shall be established in the 00:15:38.889 --> 00:15:41.509 midst of my people. But if they do not obey, 00:15:41.809 --> 00:15:44.990 I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, 00:15:45.129 --> 00:15:53.029 says the Lord. I hope you enjoyed today's reading 00:15:53.029 --> 00:15:55.350 as much as I did and I look forward to seeing 00:15:55.350 --> 00:15:57.409 you again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 00:15:57.529 --> 00:15:59.210 God bless you and have a great day.