WEBVTT 00:00:00.960 --> 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 --> 00:00:08.820 in a year. Today's reading is from the book of 00:00:08.820 --> 00:00:12.099 Ezekiel chapter 20 and the book of Jeremiah chapters 00:00:12.099 --> 00:00:19.199 21 and 34. The book of Ezekiel chapter 20. It 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:21.219 came to pass in the seventh year in the fifth 00:00:21.219 --> 00:00:23.940 month on the tenth day of the month that certain 00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:26.420 of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the 00:00:26.420 --> 00:00:28.640 Lord and said before me. Then the word of the 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:31.600 Lord came to me saying, Son of man, speak to 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.299 the elders of Israel and say to them, Thus says 00:00:34.299 --> 00:00:37.079 the Lord God, Have you come to inquire of me? 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:40.780 As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired 00:00:40.780 --> 00:00:44.000 of by you. Will you judge them, son of man? Will 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.619 you judge them? Then make known to them the abominations 00:00:47.619 --> 00:00:50.240 of their fathers. Say to them, Thus says the 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:53.509 Lord God, On the day when I chose Israel and 00:00:53.509 --> 00:00:55.890 raised my hand in an oath to the descendants 00:00:55.890 --> 00:00:58.810 of the house of Jacob and made myself known to 00:00:58.810 --> 00:01:01.810 them in the land of Egypt, I raised my hand in 00:01:01.810 --> 00:01:05.129 an oath to them, saying, I am the Lord your God. 00:01:05.450 --> 00:01:08.549 On that day I raised my hand in an oath to them 00:01:08.549 --> 00:01:10.890 to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a 00:01:10.890 --> 00:01:13.829 land that I had searched out for them, flowing 00:01:13.829 --> 00:01:16.329 with milk and honey, the glory of all lands. 00:01:16.569 --> 00:01:19.379 Then I said to them, Each of you, Throw away 00:01:19.379 --> 00:01:22.140 the abominations which are before his eyes, and 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:24.680 do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. 00:01:24.859 --> 00:01:28.180 I am the Lord your God. But they rebelled against 00:01:28.180 --> 00:01:31.459 me and would not obey me. They did not all cast 00:01:31.459 --> 00:01:33.620 away the abominations which were before their 00:01:33.620 --> 00:01:36.319 eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. 00:01:36.540 --> 00:01:39.620 Then I said, I will pour out my fury on them 00:01:39.620 --> 00:01:42.359 and fulfill my anger against them in the midst 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:45.150 of the land of Egypt. But I acted for my name's 00:01:45.150 --> 00:01:48.069 sake, that it should not be profaned before the 00:01:48.069 --> 00:01:51.409 Gentiles, among whom they were, in whose sight 00:01:51.409 --> 00:01:54.010 I had made myself known to them, to bring them 00:01:54.010 --> 00:01:57.129 out of the land of Egypt. Therefore I made them 00:01:57.129 --> 00:01:59.209 go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them 00:01:59.209 --> 00:02:01.890 into the wilderness. And I gave them my statutes, 00:02:01.950 --> 00:02:04.530 and showed them my judgments, which if a man 00:02:04.530 --> 00:02:08.030 does, he shall live by them. Moreover I also 00:02:08.030 --> 00:02:10.990 gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between them 00:02:10.990 --> 00:02:14.159 and me. that they might know that I am the Lord 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.759 who sanctifies them. Yet the house of Israel 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:19.400 rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:22.539 not walk in my statutes. They despised my judgments, 00:02:22.780 --> 00:02:26.219 which if a man does, he shall live by them. And 00:02:26.219 --> 00:02:29.340 they greatly defiled my sabbaths. Then I said 00:02:29.340 --> 00:02:32.060 I would pour out my fury on them in the wilderness 00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:35.219 to consume them. But I acted for my name's sake, 00:02:35.419 --> 00:02:38.639 that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles, 00:02:38.659 --> 00:02:41.939 in whose sight I had brought them out. So I also 00:02:41.939 --> 00:02:44.560 raised my hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:47.719 that I would not bring them into the land which 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:49.979 I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:53.020 the glory of all lands, because they despised 00:02:53.020 --> 00:02:55.620 my judgments, and did not walk in my statutes. 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:58.699 but profaned my Sabbaths, for their heart went 00:02:58.699 --> 00:03:02.280 after their idols. Nevertheless, my eye spared 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:05.080 them from destruction. I did not make an end 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:08.000 of them in the wilderness. But I said to their 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:10.460 children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the 00:03:10.460 --> 00:03:13.319 statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, 00:03:13.580 --> 00:03:16.740 nor defile yourselves with their idols. I am 00:03:16.740 --> 00:03:19.780 the Lord your God. Walk in my statutes, keep 00:03:19.780 --> 00:03:22.599 my judgments, and do them. hallow my sabbaths 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.620 and they will be a sign between me and you that 00:03:25.620 --> 00:03:29.319 you may know that i am the lord your god notwithstanding 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:32.159 the children rebelled against me they did not 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:35.020 walk in my statutes and were not careful to observe 00:03:35.020 --> 00:03:38.199 my judgments which if a man does he shall live 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:42.000 by them but they profane my sabbaths then i said 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.379 i would pour out my fury on them and fulfill 00:03:44.379 --> 00:03:47.379 my anger against them in the wilderness nevertheless 00:03:47.379 --> 00:03:50.879 i withdrew my hand and acted for my name's sake 00:03:51.340 --> 00:03:53.719 that it should not be profaned in the sight of 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:56.340 the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them 00:03:56.340 --> 00:04:00.280 out. Also I raised my hand in an oath to those 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:02.560 in the wilderness, that I would scatter them 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.360 among the Gentiles and disperse them throughout 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:07.879 the countries, because they had not executed 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:10.919 my judgments, but had despised my statutes, profaned 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:13.240 my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:16.720 fathers' idols. Therefore I also gave them up 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.300 to statutes that were not good, and judgments 00:04:19.300 --> 00:04:21.819 by which they could not live. And I pronounced 00:04:21.819 --> 00:04:25.480 them unclean because of their ritual gifts, in 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.740 that they caused all their firstborn to pass 00:04:27.740 --> 00:04:30.600 through the fire, that I might make them desolate, 00:04:30.740 --> 00:04:33.480 and that they might know that I am the Lord. 00:04:33.939 --> 00:04:35.959 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:38.600 Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord God, 00:04:38.899 --> 00:04:41.699 In this too your fathers have blasphemed me, 00:04:41.779 --> 00:04:44.360 by being unfaithful to me, when I brought them 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:46.759 into the land concerning which I had raised my 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:49.850 hand in an oath to give them. And they saw all 00:04:49.850 --> 00:04:52.629 the high hills and all the thick trees. There 00:04:52.629 --> 00:04:54.910 they offered their sacrifices and provoked me 00:04:54.910 --> 00:04:57.410 with their offerings. There they also sent up 00:04:57.410 --> 00:04:59.629 their sweet aroma and poured out their drink 00:04:59.629 --> 00:05:02.189 offerings. Then I said to them, What is this 00:05:02.189 --> 00:05:05.290 high place to which you go? So its name is called 00:05:05.290 --> 00:05:08.209 Bama to this day. Therefore say to the house 00:05:08.209 --> 00:05:11.449 of Israel, Thus says the Lord God, Are you defiling 00:05:11.449 --> 00:05:13.329 yourselves in the manner of your fathers and 00:05:13.329 --> 00:05:15.889 committing harlotry according to their abominations? 00:05:16.509 --> 00:05:18.750 For when you offer your gifts and make your sons 00:05:18.750 --> 00:05:21.370 pass through the fire, you defile yourselves 00:05:21.370 --> 00:05:25.009 with all your idols, even to this day. So shall 00:05:25.009 --> 00:05:28.470 I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As 00:05:28.470 --> 00:05:31.470 I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired 00:05:31.470 --> 00:05:34.790 of by you. What you have in your mind shall never 00:05:34.790 --> 00:05:37.689 be when you say, We will be like the Gentiles, 00:05:37.769 --> 00:05:40.269 like the families in other countries, serving 00:05:40.269 --> 00:05:44.079 wood and stone. As I live, says the Lord God, 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:46.959 surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:50.379 arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over 00:05:50.379 --> 00:05:52.879 you. I will bring you out from the peoples and 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.040 gather you out of the countries where you are 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:57.899 scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched 00:05:57.899 --> 00:06:01.439 arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:04.000 you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.759 I will plead my case with you face to face. Just 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:10.139 as I pleaded my case with your fathers in the 00:06:10.139 --> 00:06:12.720 wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:16.120 my case with you, says the Lord God. I will make 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:18.540 you pass under the rod, and I will bring you 00:06:18.540 --> 00:06:21.819 into the bond of the covenant. I will purge the 00:06:21.819 --> 00:06:24.360 rebels from among you and those who transgress 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:27.019 against me. I will bring them out of the country 00:06:27.019 --> 00:06:29.560 where they dwell, but they shall not enter the 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:32.540 land of Israel. Then you will know that I am 00:06:32.540 --> 00:06:35.689 the Lord. As for you, O house of Israel, Thus 00:06:35.689 --> 00:06:38.889 says the Lord God, Go serve every one of you, 00:06:38.970 --> 00:06:41.730 his idols, and hereafter, if you will not obey 00:06:41.730 --> 00:06:44.529 me. But profane my holy name no more with your 00:06:44.529 --> 00:06:47.509 gifts and your idols. For on my holy mountain, 00:06:47.689 --> 00:06:50.370 on the mountain height of Israel, says the Lord 00:06:50.370 --> 00:06:53.910 God, there all the house of Israel, all of them 00:06:53.910 --> 00:06:56.850 in the land, shall serve me. There I will accept 00:06:56.850 --> 00:06:59.370 them, and there I will require your offerings 00:06:59.370 --> 00:07:02.250 and the firstfruits of your sacrifices. together 00:07:02.250 --> 00:07:05.250 with all your holy things. I will accept you 00:07:05.250 --> 00:07:07.810 as a sweet aroma when I bring you out of the 00:07:07.810 --> 00:07:10.509 peoples and gather you out of the countries where 00:07:10.509 --> 00:07:13.009 you have been scattered, and I will be hallowed 00:07:13.009 --> 00:07:16.069 in you before the Gentiles. Then you shall know 00:07:16.069 --> 00:07:19.209 that I am the Lord when I bring you into the 00:07:19.209 --> 00:07:21.750 land of Israel, into the country for which I 00:07:21.750 --> 00:07:24.470 raised my hand in an oath to give to your fathers. 00:07:24.649 --> 00:07:27.310 And there you shall remember your ways and all 00:07:27.310 --> 00:07:30.149 your doings with which you were defiled. and 00:07:30.149 --> 00:07:32.529 you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight 00:07:32.529 --> 00:07:34.930 because of all the evils that you have committed. 00:07:35.250 --> 00:07:38.170 Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when 00:07:38.170 --> 00:07:40.730 I have dealt with you for my name's sake, not 00:07:40.730 --> 00:07:43.209 according to your wicked ways, nor according 00:07:43.209 --> 00:07:45.930 to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says 00:07:45.930 --> 00:07:49.050 the Lord God. Furthermore, the word of the Lord 00:07:49.050 --> 00:07:52.209 came to me, saying, Son of man, set your face 00:07:52.209 --> 00:07:55.389 toward the south, preach against the south, and 00:07:55.389 --> 00:07:58.600 prophesy against the forest land, the south and 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.220 say to the forest of the south hear the word 00:08:01.220 --> 00:08:04.600 of the lord thus says the lord god behold i will 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:07.259 kindle a fire in you and it shall devour every 00:08:07.259 --> 00:08:10.519 green tree and every dry tree in you the blazing 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:13.800 flame shall not be quenched and all faces from 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.839 the south to the north shall be scorched by it 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.560 all flesh shall see that i the lord have kindled 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.199 it it shall not be quenched then i said ah lord 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:27.899 god they say of me Does he not speak parables? 00:08:29.339 --> 00:08:32.860 The Book of Jeremiah Chapter 21 The word which 00:08:32.860 --> 00:08:35.559 came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.399 sent to him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:42.440 the son of Masiah the priest, saying, Please 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:45.039 inquire of the Lord for us, for Nebuchadnezzar 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:47.820 king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps 00:08:47.820 --> 00:08:50.340 the Lord will deal with us according to all his 00:08:50.340 --> 00:08:53.139 wonderful works, that the king may go away from 00:08:53.139 --> 00:08:56.480 us. Then Jeremiah said to them, Thus you shall 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:59.799 say to Zedekiah, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, 00:09:00.100 --> 00:09:02.919 Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:05.700 are in your hands, with which you fight against 00:09:05.700 --> 00:09:08.539 the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege 00:09:08.539 --> 00:09:10.899 you outside the walls, and I will assemble them 00:09:10.899 --> 00:09:13.840 in the midst of this city. I myself will fight 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.980 against you with an outstretched hand and with 00:09:16.980 --> 00:09:20.120 a strong arm, even in anger and fury and great 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.639 wrath. I will strike the inhabitants of this 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:25.440 city, both man and beast. They shall die of a 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:28.059 great pestilence. And afterward, says the Lord, 00:09:28.299 --> 00:09:31.399 I will deliver Zedekiah, king of Judah, his servants 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:34.539 and the people, and such as are left in this 00:09:34.539 --> 00:09:37.039 city from the pestilence and the sword and the 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.799 famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:42.600 of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.539 into the hand of those who seek their life. And 00:09:45.539 --> 00:09:47.700 he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. 00:09:47.820 --> 00:09:51.559 He shall not spare them or have pity. Now you 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:53.779 shall say to this people, Thus says the Lord, 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:56.659 Behold, I set before you the way of life and 00:09:56.659 --> 00:09:59.480 the way of death. He who remains in this city 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:02.980 shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:06.399 But he who goes out and defects to the Chaldeans 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:09.399 who besiege you, he shall live, and his life 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:12.039 shall be as a prize to him. For I have set my 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:15.159 face against this city for adversity and not 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:17.909 for good, says the Lord. It shall be given into 00:10:17.909 --> 00:10:20.309 the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall 00:10:20.309 --> 00:10:22.870 burn it with fire. And concerning the house of 00:10:22.870 --> 00:10:25.350 the king of Judah, say, Hear the word of the 00:10:25.350 --> 00:10:29.309 Lord, O house of David, thus says the Lord. Execute 00:10:29.309 --> 00:10:31.549 judgment in the morning, and deliver him who 00:10:31.549 --> 00:10:34.029 is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, 00:10:34.049 --> 00:10:37.429 lest my fury go forth like fire, and burn so 00:10:37.429 --> 00:10:40.129 that no one can quench it, because of the evil 00:10:40.129 --> 00:10:43.830 of your doings. Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant 00:10:43.830 --> 00:10:46.370 of the valley, and rock of the plain. says the 00:10:46.370 --> 00:10:50.309 lord who say who shall come down against us or 00:10:50.309 --> 00:10:53.190 who shall enter our dwellings but i will punish 00:10:53.190 --> 00:10:55.769 you according to the fruit of your doings says 00:10:55.769 --> 00:10:59.389 the lord i will kindle a fire in its forest and 00:10:59.389 --> 00:11:03.629 it shall devour all things around it chapter 00:11:03.629 --> 00:11:07.549 34 the word which came to jeremiah from the lord 00:11:07.549 --> 00:11:09.809 when nebuchadnezzar king of babylon and all his 00:11:09.809 --> 00:11:12.659 army all the kingdoms of the earth under his 00:11:12.659 --> 00:11:15.279 dominion, and all the people fought against Jerusalem 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.620 and all its cities, saying, Thus says the Lord, 00:11:18.779 --> 00:11:21.940 the God of Israel, Go and speak to Zedekiah king 00:11:21.940 --> 00:11:25.220 of Judah and tell him, Thus says the Lord, Behold, 00:11:25.220 --> 00:11:27.559 I will give this city into the hand of the king 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:30.580 of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire, and 00:11:30.580 --> 00:11:32.779 you shall not escape from his hand, but shall 00:11:32.779 --> 00:11:35.100 surely be taken and delivered into his hand. 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:37.860 Your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon. 00:11:38.299 --> 00:11:41.039 He shall speak with you face to face, and you 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.440 shall go to Babylon. Yet hear the word of the 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.440 Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah. Thus says the 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.799 Lord concerning you, You shall not die by the 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.720 sword. You shall die in peace, as in the ceremonies 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:54.700 of your fathers, the former kings who were before 00:11:54.700 --> 00:11:57.480 you. So they shall burn incense for you and lament 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:00.759 for you, saying, Alas, Lord, for I have pronounced 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:04.019 the word, says the Lord. Then Jeremiah the prophet 00:12:04.019 --> 00:12:07.200 spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah. 00:12:07.529 --> 00:12:10.149 in Jerusalem, when the king of Babylon's army 00:12:10.149 --> 00:12:12.669 fought against Jerusalem and all the cities of 00:12:12.669 --> 00:12:16.090 Judah that were left against Lashish and Azekah, 00:12:16.110 --> 00:12:19.009 for only these fortified cities remained of the 00:12:19.009 --> 00:12:21.789 cities of Judah. This is the word that came to 00:12:21.789 --> 00:12:24.870 Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had 00:12:24.870 --> 00:12:26.970 made a covenant with all the people who were 00:12:26.970 --> 00:12:30.190 at Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them that 00:12:30.190 --> 00:12:32.690 every man should set free his male and female 00:12:32.690 --> 00:12:36.159 slave, a Hebrew man or woman, that no one should 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:39.299 keep a Jewish brother in bondage. Now when all 00:12:39.299 --> 00:12:41.679 the princes and all the people who had entered 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:44.220 into the covenant heard that everyone should 00:12:44.220 --> 00:12:46.700 set free his male and female slaves, that no 00:12:46.700 --> 00:12:49.240 one should keep them in bondage anymore, they 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:52.539 obeyed and let them go. But afterward they changed 00:12:52.539 --> 00:12:54.879 their minds and made the male and female slaves 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.019 return, whom they had set free, and brought them 00:12:58.019 --> 00:13:01.179 into subjection as male and female slaves. Therefore 00:13:01.179 --> 00:13:03.600 the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:06.120 Lord, saying, Thus says the Lord, the God of 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:08.500 Israel, I made the covenant with your fathers 00:13:08.500 --> 00:13:11.059 in the day that I brought them out of the land 00:13:11.059 --> 00:13:13.639 of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:17.080 At the end of seven years, let every man set 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:19.360 free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:22.159 him, and when he has served you six years, you 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.860 shall let him go free from you. But your fathers 00:13:24.860 --> 00:13:27.700 did not obey me nor incline their ear. Then you 00:13:27.700 --> 00:13:30.440 recently turned and did what was right in my 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.460 sight, every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor. 00:13:33.950 --> 00:13:36.190 and you made a covenant before me in the house 00:13:36.190 --> 00:13:39.490 which is called by my name. Then you turned around 00:13:39.490 --> 00:13:42.809 and profaned my name, and every one of you brought 00:13:42.809 --> 00:13:45.570 back his male and female slaves, whom you had 00:13:45.570 --> 00:13:48.730 set at liberty, at their pleasure, and brought 00:13:48.730 --> 00:13:51.309 them back into subjection to be your male and 00:13:51.309 --> 00:13:54.389 female slaves. Therefore, thus says the Lord, 00:13:54.570 --> 00:13:56.669 you have not obeyed me in proclaiming liberty, 00:13:56.970 --> 00:13:59.710 every one to his brother, and every one to his 00:13:59.710 --> 00:14:02.799 neighbor. behold i proclaim liberty to you says 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:06.179 the lord to the sword to pestilence and to famine 00:14:06.179 --> 00:14:09.039 and i will deliver you to trouble among all the 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:11.620 kingdoms of the earth and i will give the men 00:14:11.620 --> 00:14:14.480 who have transgressed my covenant who have not 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:17.539 performed the words of the covenant which they 00:14:17.539 --> 00:14:20.399 made before me when they cut the calf into and 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.779 passed between the parts of it the princes of 00:14:22.779 --> 00:14:25.659 judah the princes of jerusalem the eunuchs, the 00:14:25.659 --> 00:14:28.100 priests, and all the people of the land who had 00:14:28.100 --> 00:14:30.559 passed between the parts of the calf. I will 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:32.799 give them into the hand of their enemies and 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:36.480 into the hand of those who seek their life. Their 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.179 dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of 00:14:39.179 --> 00:14:42.000 the heaven and the beasts of the earth. And I 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:44.500 will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes 00:14:44.500 --> 00:14:47.259 into the hand of their enemies, into the hand 00:14:47.259 --> 00:14:50.259 of those who seek their life, and into the hand 00:14:50.259 --> 00:14:52.860 of the king of Babylon's army, which has gone 00:14:52.860 --> 00:15:13.879 back from you. I hope you enjoyed today's reading 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:16.200 as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:18.220 you again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 00:15:18.379 --> 00:15:20.039 God bless you and have a great day.