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 --> 00:00:08.800 in a year. Today's reading is from the book of 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:13.519 Ezekiel, chapters 22 through 24. Chapter 22 Moreover, 00:00:13.900 --> 00:00:16.399 the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Now, 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:19.140 son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:22.359 bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations. 00:00:22.379 --> 00:00:25.760 Then say, Thus says the Lord God, The city sheds 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:28.739 blood in her own midst, that her time may come. 00:00:29.129 --> 00:00:31.690 and she makes idols within herself to defile 00:00:31.690 --> 00:00:34.810 herself. You have become guilty by the blood 00:00:34.810 --> 00:00:37.030 which you have shed and have defiled yourself 00:00:37.030 --> 00:00:39.390 with the idols which you have made. You have 00:00:39.390 --> 00:00:41.750 caused your days to draw near and have come to 00:00:41.750 --> 00:00:44.350 the end of your years. Therefore I have made 00:00:44.350 --> 00:00:47.229 you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to 00:00:47.229 --> 00:00:50.070 all countries. Those near and those far from 00:00:50.070 --> 00:00:53.350 you will mock you as infamous and full of tumult. 00:00:53.869 --> 00:00:56.789 Look, the princes of Israel, each one has used 00:00:56.789 --> 00:00:59.770 his power to shed blood in you. In you they have 00:00:59.770 --> 00:01:02.450 made light of father and mother. In your midst 00:01:02.450 --> 00:01:05.810 they have oppressed the stranger. In you they 00:01:05.810 --> 00:01:08.469 have mistreated the fatherless and the widow. 00:01:08.650 --> 00:01:11.069 You have despised my holy things and profaned 00:01:11.069 --> 00:01:14.489 my Sabbaths. In you are men who slander to cause 00:01:14.489 --> 00:01:17.349 bloodshed. In you are those who eat on the mountains. 00:01:17.549 --> 00:01:21.189 In your midst they commit lewdness. In you men 00:01:21.189 --> 00:01:23.590 uncover their father's nakedness. In you they 00:01:23.590 --> 00:01:26.310 violate women who are set apart during their 00:01:26.310 --> 00:01:29.640 impurity. One commits abomination with his neighbor's 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.500 wife, another lewdly defiles his daughter -in 00:01:32.500 --> 00:01:35.379 -law, and another in you violates his sister, 00:01:35.500 --> 00:01:38.200 his father's daughter. In you they take bribes 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:41.480 to shed blood, you take usury and increase. You 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.239 have made profit from your neighbors by extortion 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.879 and have forgotten me, says the Lord God. Behold, 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:50.780 therefore, I beat my fists at the dishonest profit 00:01:50.780 --> 00:01:53.680 which you have made and at the bloodshed. which 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.500 has been in your midst. Can your heart endure, 00:01:56.579 --> 00:01:59.060 or can your hands remain strong, in the days 00:01:59.060 --> 00:02:01.599 when I shall deal with you? I, the Lord, have 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.319 spoken and will do it. I will scatter you among 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:06.900 the nations, disperse you throughout the countries, 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:09.840 and remove your filthiness completely from you. 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:11.939 You shall defile yourself in the sight of the 00:02:11.939 --> 00:02:14.620 nations, then you shall know that I am the Lord. 00:02:14.979 --> 00:02:17.259 The word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son 00:02:17.259 --> 00:02:19.919 of man, the house of Israel has become dross 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:23.469 to me. They are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead 00:02:23.469 --> 00:02:26.370 in the midst of a furnace. They have become dross 00:02:26.370 --> 00:02:28.909 from silver. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, 00:02:29.189 --> 00:02:31.469 Because you have all become dross, therefore, 00:02:31.610 --> 00:02:34.669 behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem, 00:02:34.909 --> 00:02:38.289 as men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and 00:02:38.289 --> 00:02:41.189 tin into the midst of a furnace to blow fire 00:02:41.189 --> 00:02:44.030 on it to melt it. So I will gather you in my 00:02:44.030 --> 00:02:46.930 anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there 00:02:46.930 --> 00:02:49.620 and melt you. Yes, I will gather you and blow 00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:52.699 on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall 00:02:52.699 --> 00:02:56.099 be melted in its midst. As silver is melted in 00:02:56.099 --> 00:02:58.300 the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted 00:02:58.300 --> 00:03:01.199 in its midst. Then you shall know that I, the 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:04.699 Lord, have poured out my fury on you. And the 00:03:04.699 --> 00:03:07.080 word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, 00:03:07.219 --> 00:03:10.439 say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:13.580 or rained on in the day of indignation. The conspiracy 00:03:13.580 --> 00:03:16.659 of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring 00:03:16.659 --> 00:03:19.639 lion. tearing the prey they have devoured people 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:21.919 they have taken treasure and precious things 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:25.780 they have made many widows in her midst her priests 00:03:25.780 --> 00:03:28.620 have violated my law and profane my holy things 00:03:28.620 --> 00:03:31.099 they have not distinguished between the holy 00:03:31.099 --> 00:03:34.340 and unholy nor have they made known the difference 00:03:34.340 --> 00:03:36.840 between the unclean and the clean and they have 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.439 hidden their eyes from my sabbaths so that i 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:42.800 am profaned among them her princes in her midst 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:45.400 are like wolves tearing the prey to shed blood, 00:03:45.659 --> 00:03:48.259 to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain. 00:03:48.500 --> 00:03:51.599 Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, 00:03:51.860 --> 00:03:55.020 seeing false visions and divining lies for them, 00:03:55.060 --> 00:03:57.719 saying, Thus says the Lord God, when the Lord 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:01.099 has not spoken. The people of the land have used 00:04:01.099 --> 00:04:03.960 oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:06.300 the poor and needy, and they wrongfully oppress 00:04:06.300 --> 00:04:09.590 the stranger. So I sought for a man among them 00:04:09.590 --> 00:04:12.750 who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before 00:04:12.750 --> 00:04:15.629 me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy 00:04:15.629 --> 00:04:18.709 it, but I found no one. Therefore I have poured 00:04:18.709 --> 00:04:21.410 out my indignation on them, I have consumed them 00:04:21.410 --> 00:04:24.149 with the fire of my wrath, and I have recompensed 00:04:24.149 --> 00:04:26.790 their deeds on their own heads, says the Lord 00:04:26.790 --> 00:04:32.310 God. Chapter 23 The word of the Lord came again 00:04:32.310 --> 00:04:35.149 to me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, 00:04:35.310 --> 00:04:38.279 the daughters of one mother. They committed harlotry 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:40.920 in Egypt, they committed harlotry in their youth. 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:44.120 Their breasts were there embraced, their virgin 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.839 bosom was there pressed. Their names, Ohola the 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.879 elder and Oholiba her sister, they were mine. 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:53.759 And they bore sons and daughters. As for their 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:57.360 names, Samaria is Ohola and Jerusalem is Oholiba. 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:00.860 Ohola played the harlot even though she was mine, 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.199 and she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:06.629 Assyrians, who were clothed in purple. captains 00:05:06.629 --> 00:05:09.129 and rulers, all of them desirable young men, 00:05:09.290 --> 00:05:12.350 horsemen riding on horses. Thus she committed 00:05:12.350 --> 00:05:15.290 her harlotry with them, all of them choice men 00:05:15.290 --> 00:05:18.449 of Assyria, and with all for whom she lusted, 00:05:18.610 --> 00:05:21.910 with all their idols, she defiled herself. She 00:05:21.910 --> 00:05:24.569 has never given up her harlotry brought from 00:05:24.569 --> 00:05:27.589 Egypt, for in her youth they had lain with her, 00:05:27.709 --> 00:05:30.529 pressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their 00:05:30.529 --> 00:05:33.540 immorality upon her. Therefore I have delivered 00:05:33.540 --> 00:05:36.420 her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand 00:05:36.420 --> 00:05:39.680 of the Assyrians, for whom she lusted. They uncovered 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.259 her nakedness, took away her sons and daughters, 00:05:42.459 --> 00:05:45.199 and slew her with the sword. She became a byword 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:48.420 among women, for they had executed judgment on 00:05:48.420 --> 00:05:51.639 her. Now although her sister Oholiba saw this, 00:05:51.779 --> 00:05:54.740 she became more corrupt in her lust than she. 00:05:55.180 --> 00:05:58.379 and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister's 00:05:58.379 --> 00:06:01.220 harlotry. She lusted for the neighboring Assyrians, 00:06:01.420 --> 00:06:04.800 captains and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, 00:06:05.180 --> 00:06:07.939 horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable 00:06:07.939 --> 00:06:11.300 young men. Then I saw that she was defiled. Both 00:06:11.300 --> 00:06:14.420 took the same way, but she increased her harlotry. 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:17.519 She looked at men portrayed on the wall, images 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:20.860 of Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, girded with 00:06:20.860 --> 00:06:23.699 belts around their waists, flowing turbans on 00:06:23.699 --> 00:06:26.589 their heads. all of them looking like captains 00:06:26.589 --> 00:06:28.949 in the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, 00:06:29.089 --> 00:06:32.269 the land of their nativity. As soon as her eyes 00:06:32.269 --> 00:06:35.230 saw them, she lusted for them and sent messengers 00:06:35.230 --> 00:06:38.769 to them in Chaldea. Then the Babylonians came 00:06:38.769 --> 00:06:41.370 to her, into the bed of love, and they defiled 00:06:41.370 --> 00:06:44.310 her with their immorality. So she was defiled 00:06:44.310 --> 00:06:47.430 by them and alienated herself from them. she 00:06:47.430 --> 00:06:50.230 revealed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness 00:06:50.230 --> 00:06:54.110 then i alienated myself from her as i had alienated 00:06:54.110 --> 00:06:57.810 myself from her sister yet she multiplied her 00:06:57.810 --> 00:07:00.569 harlotry in calling to remembrance the days of 00:07:00.569 --> 00:07:02.910 her youth when she had played the harlot in the 00:07:02.910 --> 00:07:05.810 land of egypt for she lusted for her paramours 00:07:05.810 --> 00:07:09.189 whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and 00:07:09.189 --> 00:07:11.920 whose issue is like the issue of horses Thus 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:14.160 you call to remembrance the lewdness of your 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:16.980 youth when the Egyptians pressed your bosom because 00:07:16.980 --> 00:07:20.199 of your youthful breasts. Therefore, O Holiba, 00:07:20.379 --> 00:07:23.480 thus says the Lord God, Behold, I will stir up 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:26.420 your lovers against you, from whom you have alienated 00:07:26.420 --> 00:07:29.040 yourself, and I will bring them against you from 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:32.220 every side, the Babylonians, all the Chaldeans, 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:36.579 Pekod, Shoa, Koa, all the Assyrians with them, 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:40.339 all of them desirable young men, governors and 00:07:40.339 --> 00:07:43.529 rulers. captains and men of renown, all of them 00:07:43.529 --> 00:07:46.370 riding on horses. And they shall come against 00:07:46.370 --> 00:07:49.769 you with chariots, wagons, and warhorses, with 00:07:49.769 --> 00:07:52.170 a horde of people. They shall array against you 00:07:52.170 --> 00:07:55.670 buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will 00:07:55.670 --> 00:07:58.089 delegate judgment to them, and they shall judge 00:07:58.089 --> 00:08:00.529 you according to their judgments. I will set 00:08:00.529 --> 00:08:03.110 my jealousy against you, and they shall deal 00:08:03.110 --> 00:08:06.009 furiously with you. They shall remove your nose 00:08:06.009 --> 00:08:08.769 and your ears, and your remnant shall fall by 00:08:08.769 --> 00:08:11.060 the sword. They shall take your sons and your 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:13.480 daughters, and your remnant shall be devoured 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.180 by fire. They shall also strip you of your clothes 00:08:16.180 --> 00:08:19.439 and take away your beautiful jewelry. Thus I 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:21.819 will make you cease your lewdness and your harlotry 00:08:21.819 --> 00:08:24.360 brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.360 not lift your eyes to them nor remember Egypt 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:30.699 anymore. For thus says the Lord God, Surely I 00:08:30.699 --> 00:08:32.860 will deliver you into the hand of those you hate, 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.960 into the hand of those from whom you alienated 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:38.779 yourself. They will deal hatefully with you. 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:41.899 Take away all you have worked for and leave you 00:08:41.899 --> 00:08:44.720 naked and bare. The nakedness of your harlotry 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:47.539 shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your 00:08:47.539 --> 00:08:50.059 harlotry. I will do these things to you because 00:08:50.059 --> 00:08:53.139 you have gone as a harlot after the Gentiles, 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:55.840 because you have become defiled by their idols. 00:08:56.100 --> 00:08:59.039 You have walked in the way of your sister, therefore 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:02.419 I will put her cup in your hand. Thus says the 00:09:02.419 --> 00:09:05.159 Lord God, You shall drink of your sister's cup, 00:09:05.340 --> 00:09:08.360 the deep and wide one. You shall be laughed to 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:11.759 scorn, and held in derision. It contains much. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.480 You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. 00:09:14.700 --> 00:09:17.340 The cup of horror and desolation, the cup of 00:09:17.340 --> 00:09:20.139 your sister, Samaria. You shall drink and drain 00:09:20.139 --> 00:09:23.299 it. You shall break its shards, and tear at your 00:09:23.299 --> 00:09:25.659 own breasts, for I have spoken, says the Lord 00:09:25.659 --> 00:09:28.860 God. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, because 00:09:28.860 --> 00:09:31.159 you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:33.799 back, therefore you shall bear the penalty of 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:36.909 your lewdness and your harlotry. The Lord also 00:09:36.909 --> 00:09:39.870 said to me, Son of man, will you judge Ohola 00:09:39.870 --> 00:09:43.370 and Oholiba? Then declare to them their abominations, 00:09:43.470 --> 00:09:46.029 for they have committed adultery, and blood is 00:09:46.029 --> 00:09:48.490 on their hands. They have committed adultery 00:09:48.490 --> 00:09:51.190 with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons, 00:09:51.370 --> 00:09:53.870 whom they bore to me, passing them through the 00:09:53.870 --> 00:09:56.750 fire to devour them. Moreover they have done 00:09:56.750 --> 00:09:59.639 this to me. they have defiled my sanctuary on 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:02.919 the same day and profaned my sabbaths for after 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:05.299 they had slain their children for their idols 00:10:05.299 --> 00:10:08.220 on the same day they came into my sanctuary to 00:10:08.220 --> 00:10:11.279 profane it and indeed thus they have done in 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:14.480 the midst of my house furthermore you sent for 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:17.320 men to come from afar to whom a messenger was 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:20.580 sent and there they came and you washed yourself 00:10:20.580 --> 00:10:23.059 for them painted your eyes and adorned yourself 00:10:23.059 --> 00:10:26.309 with ornaments You sat on a stately couch, with 00:10:26.309 --> 00:10:28.690 a table prepared before it, on which you had 00:10:28.690 --> 00:10:32.210 set my incense and my oil. The sound of a carefree 00:10:32.210 --> 00:10:36.049 multitude was with her, and Sabians were brought 00:10:36.049 --> 00:10:38.629 from the wilderness with men of the common sort, 00:10:38.830 --> 00:10:41.269 who put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful 00:10:41.269 --> 00:10:44.269 crowns on their heads. Then I said concerning 00:10:44.269 --> 00:10:47.470 her who had grown old in adulteries, will they 00:10:47.470 --> 00:10:50.269 commit harlotry with her now, and she with them? 00:10:50.730 --> 00:10:53.870 yet they went into her as men go into a woman 00:10:53.870 --> 00:10:56.769 who plays the harlot thus they went into ohola 00:10:56.769 --> 00:10:59.690 and oholiba the lewd women but righteous men 00:10:59.690 --> 00:11:02.570 will judge them after the manner of adulteresses 00:11:02.570 --> 00:11:05.090 and after the manner of women who shed blood 00:11:05.090 --> 00:11:08.009 because they are adulteresses and blood is on 00:11:08.009 --> 00:11:10.990 their hands for thus says the lord god bring 00:11:10.990 --> 00:11:14.049 up an assembly against them give them up to trouble 00:11:14.049 --> 00:11:16.700 and plunder The assembly shall stone them with 00:11:16.700 --> 00:11:19.659 stones and execute them with their swords. They 00:11:19.659 --> 00:11:21.580 shall slay their sons and their daughters and 00:11:21.580 --> 00:11:24.259 burn their houses with fire. Thus I will cause 00:11:24.259 --> 00:11:27.580 lewdness to cease from the land, that all women 00:11:27.580 --> 00:11:30.080 may be taught not to practice your lewdness. 00:11:30.220 --> 00:11:32.820 They shall repay you for your lewdness, and you 00:11:32.820 --> 00:11:36.179 shall pay for your idolatrous sins. Then you 00:11:36.179 --> 00:11:43.070 shall know that I am the Lord God. Again, in 00:11:43.070 --> 00:11:45.049 the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth 00:11:45.049 --> 00:11:47.470 day of the month, the word of the Lord came to 00:11:47.470 --> 00:11:50.110 me, saying, Son of man, write down the name of 00:11:50.110 --> 00:11:53.250 the day, this very day. The king of Babylon started 00:11:53.250 --> 00:11:56.529 his siege against Jerusalem this very day. And 00:11:56.529 --> 00:11:59.210 utter a parable to the rebellious house, and 00:11:59.210 --> 00:12:02.330 say to them, Thus says the Lord God, Put on a 00:12:02.330 --> 00:12:05.970 pot, set it on, and also pour water into it. 00:12:06.049 --> 00:12:08.830 Gather pieces of meat in it, every good piece, 00:12:09.009 --> 00:12:11.779 the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with choice 00:12:11.779 --> 00:12:14.940 cuts. Take the choice of the flock. Also pile 00:12:14.940 --> 00:12:18.000 fuel bones under it. Make it boil well, and let 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.899 the cuts simmer in it. Therefore thus says the 00:12:20.899 --> 00:12:23.740 Lord God, Woe to the bloody city, to the pot 00:12:23.740 --> 00:12:26.980 whose scum is in it, and whose scum is not gone 00:12:26.980 --> 00:12:30.159 from it. Bring it out piece by piece, on which 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.700 no lot has fallen, for her blood is in her midst. 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.840 She set it on top of a rock, she did not pour 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:39.789 it on the ground. to cover it with dust, that 00:12:39.789 --> 00:12:42.669 it may raise up fury and take vengeance. I have 00:12:42.669 --> 00:12:45.429 set her blood on top of a rock, that it may not 00:12:45.429 --> 00:12:48.490 be covered. Therefore thus says the Lord God, 00:12:48.769 --> 00:12:51.809 Woe to the bloody city! I too will make the pyre 00:12:51.809 --> 00:12:55.230 great, heap on the wood, kindle the fire, cook 00:12:55.230 --> 00:12:58.250 the meat well, mix in the spices, and let the 00:12:58.250 --> 00:13:01.509 cuts be burned up. Then set the pot empty on 00:13:01.509 --> 00:13:04.470 the coals, that it may become hot, and its bronze 00:13:04.470 --> 00:13:08.299 may burn. that its filthiness may be melted in 00:13:08.299 --> 00:13:12.100 it, that its scum may be consumed. She has grown 00:13:12.100 --> 00:13:15.139 weary with lies, and her great scum has not gone 00:13:15.139 --> 00:13:18.440 from her. Let her scum be in the fire, and your 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:21.299 filthiness is lewdness, because I have cleansed 00:13:21.299 --> 00:13:23.720 you, and you are not cleansed. You will not be 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:26.159 cleansed of your filthiness any more, till I 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:29.580 have caused my fury to rest upon you. I, the 00:13:29.580 --> 00:13:32.100 Lord, have spoken it. It shall come to pass, 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:35.259 and I will do it. I will not hold back, nor will 00:13:35.259 --> 00:13:38.440 I spare, nor will I relent. According to your 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:41.100 ways and according to your deeds, they will judge 00:13:41.100 --> 00:13:44.399 you, says the Lord God. Also the word of the 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:47.100 Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, behold, 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:50.120 I take away from you the desire of your eyes 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:53.139 with one stroke. Yet you shall neither mourn 00:13:53.139 --> 00:13:56.940 nor weep, nor shall your tears run down. Sigh 00:13:56.940 --> 00:14:00.240 in silence, make no mourning for the dead. Bind 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:02.480 your turban on your head, and put your sandals 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:05.039 on your feet. Do not cover your lips, and do 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:08.220 not eat man's bread of sorrow. So I spoke to 00:14:08.220 --> 00:14:10.279 the people in the morning, and at evening my 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:13.379 wife died. And the next morning I did as I was 00:14:13.379 --> 00:14:15.679 commanded. And the people said to me, Will you 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.740 not tell us what these things signify to us that 00:14:18.740 --> 00:14:21.580 you behave so? Then I answered them, The word 00:14:21.580 --> 00:14:23.840 of the Lord came to me, saying, Speak to the 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.980 house of Israel. Thus says the Lord God, Behold, 00:14:26.980 --> 00:14:29.779 I will profane my sanctuary, your arrogant boast, 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.899 the desire of your eyes, the delight of your 00:14:32.899 --> 00:14:35.559 soul, and your sons and daughters, whom you left 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:38.440 behind, shall fall by the sword. And you shall 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:41.259 do as I have done. You shall not cover your lips, 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:44.639 nor eat man's bread of sorrow. Your turbans shall 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:46.759 be on your heads and your sandals on your feet. 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:49.759 You shall neither mourn nor weep, but you shall 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:52.740 pine away in your iniquities and mourn with one 00:14:52.740 --> 00:14:56.070 another. thus ezekiel is assigned to you according 00:14:56.070 --> 00:14:59.029 to all that he has done you shall do and when 00:14:59.029 --> 00:15:02.009 this comes you shall know that i am the lord 00:15:02.009 --> 00:15:06.450 god and you son of man will it not be in the 00:15:06.450 --> 00:15:09.509 day when i take from them their stronghold their 00:15:09.509 --> 00:15:12.330 joy and their glory the desire of their eyes, 00:15:12.490 --> 00:15:15.009 and that on which they set their minds, their 00:15:15.009 --> 00:15:17.769 sons and their daughters, that on that day one 00:15:17.769 --> 00:15:20.350 who escapes will come to you to let you hear 00:15:20.350 --> 00:15:23.470 it with your ears. On that day your mouth will 00:15:23.470 --> 00:15:26.090 be opened to him who has escaped. You shall speak 00:15:26.090 --> 00:15:29.690 and no longer be mute. Thus you will be assigned 00:15:29.690 --> 00:15:32.769 to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 00:15:37.970 --> 00:15:40.169 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as 00:15:40.169 --> 00:15:42.279 I did. and I look forward to seeing you again 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:44.700 tomorrow to continue on our journey. God bless 00:15:44.700 --> 00:15:45.779 you and have a great day.