WEBVTT 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:03.740 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.740 --> 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 Jeremiah, 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:17.839 chapters 13, 18, 26, 46, and 47. Chapter 13 Thus 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:20.500 the Lord said to me, Go and get yourself a linen 00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:23.239 sash, and put it around your waist, but do not 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:26.739 put it in water. So I got a sash, according to 00:00:26.739 --> 00:00:28.760 the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist. 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:31.460 And the word of the Lord came to me the second 00:00:31.460 --> 00:00:34.000 time, saying, Take the sash that you have acquired, 00:00:34.219 --> 00:00:37.140 which is around your waist, and arise and go 00:00:37.140 --> 00:00:39.619 to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole 00:00:39.619 --> 00:00:42.320 in the rock. So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, 00:00:42.579 --> 00:00:45.200 as the Lord commanded me. Now it came to pass 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.100 after many days that the Lord said to me, Arise, 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:50.659 go to the Euphrates, and take from there the 00:00:50.659 --> 00:00:53.520 sash which I commanded you to hide there. Then 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:56.020 I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the 00:00:56.020 --> 00:00:59.200 sash from the place where I had hidden it, And 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:01.640 there was the sash ruined. It was profitable 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:04.359 for nothing. Then the word of the Lord came to 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:07.180 me, saying, Thus says the Lord, In this manner 00:01:07.180 --> 00:01:09.939 I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great 00:01:09.939 --> 00:01:13.060 pride of Jerusalem. This evil people, who refuse 00:01:13.060 --> 00:01:15.560 to hear my words, who follow the dictates of 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:18.140 their hearts and walk after other gods to serve 00:01:18.140 --> 00:01:20.680 them and worship them, shall be just like this 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:23.819 sash, which is profitable for nothing. For as 00:01:23.819 --> 00:01:26.659 the sash clings to the waist of a man, so I have 00:01:26.659 --> 00:01:28.659 caused the whole house of Israel and the whole 00:01:28.659 --> 00:01:31.599 house of Judah to cling to me, says the Lord, 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:35.500 that they may become my people for renown, for 00:01:35.500 --> 00:01:38.700 praise, and for glory, but they would not hear. 00:01:39.219 --> 00:01:41.579 Therefore you shall speak to them this word. 00:01:41.819 --> 00:01:44.719 Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Every bottle 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:47.359 shall be filled with wine. And they will say 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:50.439 to you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:52.799 will be filled with wine? Then you shall say 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:55.530 to them, Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will fill 00:01:55.530 --> 00:01:58.510 all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings 00:01:58.510 --> 00:02:02.189 who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, 00:02:02.370 --> 00:02:05.310 and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with drunkenness, 00:02:05.370 --> 00:02:08.610 and I will dash them one against another, even 00:02:08.610 --> 00:02:11.689 the fathers and the sons together. Says the Lord, 00:02:11.849 --> 00:02:15.069 I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but 00:02:15.069 --> 00:02:18.370 will destroy them. Hear and give ear, do not 00:02:18.370 --> 00:02:21.310 be proud, for the Lord has spoken. Give glory 00:02:21.310 --> 00:02:24.090 to the Lord your God. before he causes darkness 00:02:24.090 --> 00:02:27.550 and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains 00:02:27.550 --> 00:02:30.169 and while you are looking for light he turns 00:02:30.169 --> 00:02:32.810 it into the shadow of death and makes it dense 00:02:32.810 --> 00:02:36.250 darkness but if you will not hear it my soul 00:02:36.250 --> 00:02:39.289 will weep in secret for your pride my eyes will 00:02:39.289 --> 00:02:42.530 weep bitterly and run down with tears because 00:02:42.530 --> 00:02:46.310 the lord's flock has been taken captive say to 00:02:46.310 --> 00:02:48.750 the king and to the queen mother humble yourselves 00:02:48.750 --> 00:02:52.099 sit down For your rule shall collapse the crown 00:02:52.099 --> 00:02:54.539 of your glory. The cities of the south shall 00:02:54.539 --> 00:02:57.780 be shut up, and no one shall open them. Judah 00:02:57.780 --> 00:03:00.560 shall be carried away captive, all of it. It 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:03.639 will be wholly carried away captive. Lift up 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:06.120 your eyes and see, those who come from the north. 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.360 Where is the flock that was given to you, your 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:12.539 beautiful sheep? What will you say when he punishes 00:03:12.539 --> 00:03:15.080 you? For you have taught them to be chieftains 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:18.300 to behead over you. Will not Pangs seize you 00:03:18.300 --> 00:03:20.909 like a woman in labor? and if you say in your 00:03:20.909 --> 00:03:23.949 heart why have these things come upon me for 00:03:23.949 --> 00:03:26.530 the greatness of your iniquity your skirts have 00:03:26.530 --> 00:03:30.150 been uncovered your heels made bare can the ethiopian 00:03:30.150 --> 00:03:33.710 change his skin or the leopard its spots then 00:03:33.710 --> 00:03:36.990 may you also do good who are accustomed to do 00:03:36.990 --> 00:03:40.270 evil therefore i will scatter them like stubble 00:03:40.270 --> 00:03:42.729 that passes away by the wind of the wilderness 00:03:42.729 --> 00:04:11.770 this is your lot Chapter 18 The word which came 00:04:11.770 --> 00:04:14.180 to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Arise and 00:04:14.180 --> 00:04:16.680 go down to the potter's house, and there I will 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:19.480 cause you to hear my words. Then I went down 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:21.839 to the potter's house, and there he was, making 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.120 something at the wheel. And the vessel that he 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:27.139 made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter. 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:29.879 So he made it again into another vessel, as it 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:33.120 seemed good to the potter to make. Then the word 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.699 of the Lord came to me, saying, O house of Israel, 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:39.319 can I not do with you as this potter? says the 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.290 Lord. look as the clay is in the potter's hand 00:04:42.290 --> 00:04:45.949 so are you in my hand o house of israel the instant 00:04:45.949 --> 00:04:48.250 i speak concerning a nation and concerning a 00:04:48.250 --> 00:04:51.209 kingdom to pluck up to pull down and to destroy 00:04:51.209 --> 00:04:53.629 it if that nation against whom i have spoken 00:04:53.629 --> 00:04:56.959 turns from its evil I will relent of the disaster 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.660 that I thought to bring upon it. And the instant 00:04:59.660 --> 00:05:02.139 I speak concerning a nation and concerning a 00:05:02.139 --> 00:05:05.100 kingdom to build and to plant it, if it does 00:05:05.100 --> 00:05:08.060 evil in my sight, so that it does not obey my 00:05:08.060 --> 00:05:10.639 voice, then I will relent concerning the good 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.980 with which I said I would benefit it. Now therefore 00:05:13.980 --> 00:05:16.480 speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:19.439 of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the Lord, Behold, 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:22.240 I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:25.500 against you. return now everyone from his evil 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:29.040 way and make your ways and your doings good and 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:32.279 they said that is hopeless so we will walk according 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:35.139 to our own plans and we will everyone obey the 00:05:35.139 --> 00:05:38.379 dictates of his evil heart therefore thus says 00:05:38.379 --> 00:05:41.899 the lord ask now among the gentiles who has heard 00:05:41.899 --> 00:05:44.620 such things the virgin of israel has done a very 00:05:44.620 --> 00:05:47.379 horrible thing will a man leave the snow water 00:05:47.379 --> 00:05:50.180 of lebanon which comes from the rock of the field 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:53.000 Will the cold flowing waters be forsaken for 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.540 strange waters? Because my people have forgotten 00:05:55.540 --> 00:05:58.439 me, they have burned incense to worthless idols, 00:05:58.620 --> 00:06:01.019 and they have caused themselves to stumble in 00:06:01.019 --> 00:06:03.860 their ways from the ancient path, to walk in 00:06:03.860 --> 00:06:06.819 pathways and not on a highway, to make their 00:06:06.819 --> 00:06:09.579 land desolate and a perpetual hissing. Everyone 00:06:09.579 --> 00:06:12.000 who passes by it will be astonished and shake 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.759 his head. I will scatter them as with an east 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:17.879 wind before the enemy. I will show them the back 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.420 and not the face in the day of their calamity. 00:06:20.699 --> 00:06:23.639 Then he said, Come and let us devise plans against 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:26.160 Jeremiah. For the law shall not prevail from 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.720 the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.060 word from the prophet. Come and let us attack 00:06:31.060 --> 00:06:33.720 him with the tongue, and let us not give heed 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:37.079 to any of his words. Give heed to me, O Lord, 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:39.180 and listen to the voice of those who contend 00:06:39.180 --> 00:06:42.459 with me. Shall evil be repaid for good? For they 00:06:42.459 --> 00:06:45.279 have dug a pit for my life. Remember that I stood 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:47.959 before you to speak good for them, to turn away 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.759 your wrath from them. Therefore deliver up their 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:53.079 children to the famine, and pour out their blood 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:56.180 by the force of the sword. Let their wives become 00:06:56.180 --> 00:06:59.240 widows and bereaved of their children. Let their 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:01.600 men be put to death, their young men be slain 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.000 by the sword in battle. Let a cry be heard from 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:07.600 their houses when you bring a troop suddenly 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:10.399 upon them. For they have dug a pit to take me, 00:07:10.459 --> 00:07:13.480 and hidden snares for my feet. Yet, Lord, you 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:16.079 know all their counsel, which is against me to 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:18.980 slay me. Provide no atonement for their iniquity, 00:07:19.019 --> 00:07:21.879 nor blot out their sin from your sight. But let 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:24.540 them be overthrown before you. Deal thus with 00:07:24.540 --> 00:07:29.620 them in the time of your anger. Chapter 26 In 00:07:29.620 --> 00:07:32.199 the beginning of the reign of Jehuakim, the son 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:35.000 of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.800 the Lord, saying, Thus says the Lord, Stand in 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:39.899 the court of the Lord's house and speak to all 00:07:39.899 --> 00:07:42.449 the cities of Judah. which come to worship in 00:07:42.449 --> 00:07:44.910 the Lord's house, all the words that I command 00:07:44.910 --> 00:07:47.290 you to speak to them. Do not diminish a word. 00:07:47.509 --> 00:07:49.970 Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his 00:07:49.970 --> 00:07:52.990 evil way, that I may relent concerning the calamity 00:07:52.990 --> 00:07:55.449 which I purpose to bring on them because of the 00:07:55.449 --> 00:07:58.149 evil of their doings. And you shall say to them, 00:07:58.250 --> 00:08:00.589 Thus says the Lord, If you will not listen to 00:08:00.589 --> 00:08:02.870 me to walk in my law which I have said before 00:08:02.870 --> 00:08:18.399 you, So the priests and the prophets and all 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:20.480 the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:22.660 in the house of the Lord. Now it happened when 00:08:22.660 --> 00:08:25.000 Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:27.279 the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:29.720 people, that the priests and the prophets and 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:32.639 all the people seized him. saying you will surely 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:35.580 die why have you prophesied in the name of the 00:08:35.580 --> 00:08:38.740 lord saying this house shall be like shiloh and 00:08:38.740 --> 00:08:41.600 this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.000 and all the people were gathered against jeremiah 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.559 in the house of the lord when the princes of 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:49.059 judah heard these things they came up from the 00:08:49.059 --> 00:08:51.659 king's house to the house of the lord and sat 00:08:51.659 --> 00:08:54.100 down in the entry of the new gate of the lord's 00:08:54.100 --> 00:08:56.710 house And the priests and the prophets spoke 00:08:56.710 --> 00:08:59.230 to the princes and all the people, saying, This 00:08:59.230 --> 00:09:02.250 man deserves to die, for he has prophesied against 00:09:02.250 --> 00:09:04.990 this city, as you have heard with your ears. 00:09:05.350 --> 00:09:07.769 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all 00:09:07.769 --> 00:09:10.210 the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy 00:09:10.210 --> 00:09:13.009 against this house and against this city with 00:09:13.009 --> 00:09:15.590 all the words that you have heard. Now therefore 00:09:15.590 --> 00:09:18.009 amend your ways and your doings and obey the 00:09:18.009 --> 00:09:20.409 voice of the Lord your God. Then the Lord will 00:09:20.409 --> 00:09:22.970 relent concerning the doom that he has pronounced 00:09:22.970 --> 00:09:26.440 against you. As for me, here I am in your hand. 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:29.519 Do with me as seems good and proper to you. But 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:31.700 know for certain that if you put me to death, 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:34.360 you will surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:37.799 on this city, and on its inhabitants. For truly 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.759 the Lord has sent me to speak all these words 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:43.220 in your hearing. So the princes and all the people 00:09:43.220 --> 00:09:45.600 said to the priests and the prophets, This man 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.039 does not deserve to die, for he has spoken to 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:51.470 us in the name of the Lord our God. Then certain 00:09:51.470 --> 00:09:54.230 of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to 00:09:54.230 --> 00:09:56.710 all the assembly of the people, saying, Micah 00:09:56.710 --> 00:09:59.909 of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah 00:09:59.909 --> 00:10:02.450 king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of 00:10:02.450 --> 00:10:05.769 Judah, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts, Zion 00:10:05.769 --> 00:10:08.549 shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall 00:10:08.549 --> 00:10:10.950 become heaps of ruin, and the mountain of the 00:10:10.950 --> 00:10:13.909 temple like the bare hills of the forest. Did 00:10:13.909 --> 00:10:16.809 Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah ever put 00:10:16.809 --> 00:10:19.330 him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and seek 00:10:19.330 --> 00:10:21.809 the Lord's favor? and the Lord relented concerning 00:10:21.809 --> 00:10:24.110 the doom which he had pronounced against them. 00:10:24.210 --> 00:10:26.470 But we are doing great evil against ourselves. 00:10:26.950 --> 00:10:29.750 Now there was also a man who prophesied in the 00:10:29.750 --> 00:10:32.509 name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah 00:10:32.509 --> 00:10:35.690 of Kirjah's dream. who prophesied against this 00:10:35.690 --> 00:10:37.909 city and against this land according to all the 00:10:37.909 --> 00:10:40.690 words of Jeremiah. And when Jehoiakim the king, 00:10:40.889 --> 00:10:43.070 with all his mighty men and all the princes, 00:10:43.269 --> 00:10:45.950 heard his words, the king sought to put him to 00:10:45.950 --> 00:10:49.009 death. But when Urijah heard it, he was afraid 00:10:49.009 --> 00:10:51.769 and fled and went to Egypt. Then Jehoiakim the 00:10:51.769 --> 00:10:55.450 king sent men to Egypt, Ilnathan the son of Agbor, 00:10:55.590 --> 00:10:58.399 and other men who went with him to Egypt. And 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:00.919 they brought Urijah from Egypt and brought him 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.120 to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.580 sword and cast his dead body into the graves 00:11:05.580 --> 00:11:07.980 of the common people. Nevertheless the hand of 00:11:07.980 --> 00:11:10.639 Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, 00:11:10.940 --> 00:11:13.720 so that they should not give him into the hand 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:18.340 of the people to put him to death. Chapter 46 00:11:18.340 --> 00:11:21.100 The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the 00:11:21.100 --> 00:11:24.659 prophet against the nations, against Egypt. Concerning 00:11:24.659 --> 00:11:27.320 the army of Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, which 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:30.139 was by the river Euphrates in Carshemesh, and 00:11:30.139 --> 00:11:32.320 which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, defeated 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:34.899 in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:37.799 king of Judah. Order the buckler and shield, 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:40.539 and draw near to battle. Harness the horses, 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:43.259 and mount up, you horsemen. Stand forth with 00:11:43.259 --> 00:11:46.080 your helmets, polish the spears, put on the armor. 00:11:46.299 --> 00:11:49.000 Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? 00:11:49.340 --> 00:11:52.200 Their mighty ones are beaten down. They have 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:55.110 speedily fled, and did not look back. For fear 00:11:55.110 --> 00:11:57.889 was all around, says the Lord. Do not let the 00:11:57.889 --> 00:12:01.289 swift flee away, nor the mighty men escape. They 00:12:01.289 --> 00:12:03.690 will stumble and fall toward the north by the 00:12:03.690 --> 00:12:06.490 river Euphrates. Who is this coming up like a 00:12:06.490 --> 00:12:09.990 flood, whose waters move like the rivers? Egypt 00:12:09.990 --> 00:12:13.029 rises up like a flood, and its waters move like 00:12:13.029 --> 00:12:15.509 the rivers. And he says, I will go up and cover 00:12:15.509 --> 00:12:18.250 the earth. I will destroy the city and its inhabitants. 00:12:18.610 --> 00:12:21.529 Come up, O horses, and rage, O chariots, and 00:12:21.529 --> 00:12:23.809 let the mighty men come forth. the Ethiopians 00:12:23.809 --> 00:12:26.409 and the Libyans who handle the shield, and the 00:12:26.409 --> 00:12:29.330 Lydians who handle and bend the bow. For this 00:12:29.330 --> 00:12:31.929 is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of 00:12:31.929 --> 00:12:34.450 vengeance, that he may avenge himself on his 00:12:34.450 --> 00:12:37.269 adversaries. The sword shall devour. It shall 00:12:37.269 --> 00:12:39.990 be satiated and made drunk with their blood. 00:12:40.169 --> 00:12:43.529 For the Lord God of hosts has a sacrifice in 00:12:43.529 --> 00:12:46.350 the north country by the river Euphrates. Go 00:12:46.350 --> 00:12:49.259 up to Gilead and take balm. O virgin, the daughter 00:12:49.259 --> 00:12:51.919 of Egypt, in vain you will use many medicines. 00:12:52.179 --> 00:12:54.820 You shall not be cured. The nations have heard 00:12:54.820 --> 00:12:57.080 of your shame, and your cry has filled the land. 00:12:57.240 --> 00:12:59.600 For the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty. 00:12:59.700 --> 00:13:02.919 They have both fallen together. The word of the 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:05.539 Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar, 00:13:05.539 --> 00:13:07.539 king of Babylon, would come and strike the land 00:13:07.539 --> 00:13:11.220 of Egypt. Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdal. 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:14.639 Proclaim in Noph and in Tapanis. Say, Stand fast 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:17.100 and prepare yourselves. For the sword devours 00:13:17.100 --> 00:13:19.960 all around you. Why are your valiant men swept 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:22.779 away? They did not stand, because the Lord drove 00:13:22.779 --> 00:13:27.159 them away. He made many fall, yes, one fell upon 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:30.279 another. And they said, Arise, let us go back 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:33.220 to our own people, and to the land of our nativity. 00:13:33.419 --> 00:13:36.799 From the oppressing sword they cried there, Pharaoh, 00:13:36.899 --> 00:13:39.480 king of Egypt, is but a noise. He has passed 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:42.330 by the appointed time. As I live, says the king, 00:13:42.509 --> 00:13:45.429 whose name is the Lord of hosts, surely as Tabor 00:13:45.429 --> 00:13:47.789 is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the 00:13:47.789 --> 00:13:51.470 sea, so he shall come. O you, daughter dwelling 00:13:51.470 --> 00:13:54.250 in Egypt, prepare yourself to go into captivity, 00:13:54.549 --> 00:13:57.149 for north shall be waste and desolate without 00:13:57.149 --> 00:14:00.649 inhabitant. Egypt is a very pretty heifer, but 00:14:00.649 --> 00:14:03.649 destruction comes, it comes from the north. Also 00:14:03.649 --> 00:14:07.009 her mercenaries are in her midst like fat bulls, 00:14:07.029 --> 00:14:09.750 for they also are turned back, they have fled 00:14:09.750 --> 00:14:12.830 away together. they did not stand for the day 00:14:12.830 --> 00:14:15.289 of their calamity had come upon them the time 00:14:15.289 --> 00:14:18.090 of their punishment her noise shall go like a 00:14:18.090 --> 00:14:20.870 serpent for they shall march with an army and 00:14:20.870 --> 00:14:23.649 come against her with axes like those who chop 00:14:23.649 --> 00:14:26.169 wood they shall cut down her forest says the 00:14:26.169 --> 00:14:29.149 lord though it cannot be searched because they 00:14:29.149 --> 00:14:32.250 are innumerable and more numerous than grasshoppers 00:14:32.250 --> 00:14:35.409 the daughter of egypt shall be ashamed she shall 00:14:35.409 --> 00:14:37.409 be delivered into the hand of the people of the 00:14:37.409 --> 00:14:40.399 north The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says, 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:43.480 Behold, I will bring punishment on Ammon of Noh, 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.240 and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:49.200 kings, Pharaoh and those who trust in him. And 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:51.399 I will deliver them into the hand of those who 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:53.639 seek their lives, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:55.940 king of Babylon, and the hand of his servants. 00:14:56.500 --> 00:14:58.559 Afterward it shall be inhabited as in the days 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:01.820 of old, says the Lord. But do not fear, O my 00:15:01.820 --> 00:15:04.159 servant Jacob, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. 00:15:04.490 --> 00:15:07.169 For behold, I will save you from afar, and your 00:15:07.169 --> 00:15:10.169 offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob 00:15:10.169 --> 00:15:13.529 shall return, have rest, and be at ease. No one 00:15:13.529 --> 00:15:16.070 shall make him afraid. Do not fear, O Jacob, 00:15:16.210 --> 00:15:18.830 my servant, says the Lord. For I am with you, 00:15:18.909 --> 00:15:21.830 for I will make a complete end of all the nations 00:15:21.830 --> 00:15:24.629 to which I have driven you. But I will not make 00:15:24.629 --> 00:15:27.269 a complete end of you. I will rightly correct 00:15:27.269 --> 00:15:30.169 you, for I will not leave you wholly unpunished. 00:15:32.149 --> 00:15:35.340 Chapter 47 The word of the Lord that came to 00:15:35.340 --> 00:15:37.220 Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines 00:15:37.220 --> 00:15:40.240 before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. Thus says the Lord, 00:16:01.769 --> 00:16:04.129 The fathers will not look back for their children, 00:16:04.350 --> 00:16:07.169 lacking courage, because of the day that comes 00:16:07.169 --> 00:16:09.950 to plunder all the Philistines, to cut off from 00:16:09.950 --> 00:16:12.950 Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains. For 00:16:12.950 --> 00:16:15.330 the Lord shall plunder the Philistines, the remnant 00:16:15.330 --> 00:16:18.149 of the country of Kaphtor. Baldness has come 00:16:18.149 --> 00:16:21.389 upon Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off. With the remnant 00:16:21.389 --> 00:16:23.789 of their valley, how long will you cut yourself? 00:16:24.210 --> 00:16:27.970 O you sword of the Lord, how long until you are 00:16:27.970 --> 00:16:32.019 quiet? Put yourself up into your scabbard. Rest 00:16:32.019 --> 00:16:34.940 and be still. How can it be quiet, seeing the 00:16:34.940 --> 00:16:37.519 Lord has given it a charge, against Ashkelon 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:40.720 and against the seashore? There he has appointed 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:48.220 it. I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much 00:16:48.220 --> 00:16:50.460 as I did, and I look forward to seeing you again 00:16:50.460 --> 00:16:52.899 tomorrow to continue on our journey. God bless 00:16:52.899 --> 00:16:53.960 you and have a great day.