WEBVTT 00:00:00.999 --> 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 --> 00:00:08.900 in a year. Today's reading is from the book of 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:14.080 Ezekiel, chapters 29 through 31. Chapter 29 In 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.440 the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:18.660 day of the month, the word of the Lord came to 00:00:18.660 --> 00:00:21.739 me, saying, Son of man, set your face against 00:00:21.739 --> 00:00:24.100 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and prophesy against 00:00:24.100 --> 00:00:27.699 him and against all Egypt. Speak and say, Thus 00:00:27.699 --> 00:00:30.940 says the Lord God. behold i am against you o 00:00:30.940 --> 00:00:34.140 pharaoh king of egypt o great monster who lies 00:00:34.140 --> 00:00:37.200 in the midst of his rivers who has said my river 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:40.659 is my own i have made it for myself but i will 00:00:40.659 --> 00:00:43.200 put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:46.060 your rivers to stick to your scales i will bring 00:00:46.060 --> 00:00:48.460 you up out of the midst of your rivers and all 00:00:48.460 --> 00:00:50.960 the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:53.619 i will leave you in the wilderness you and all 00:00:53.619 --> 00:00:56.119 the fish of your rivers you shall fall on the 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:58.939 open field You shall not be picked up or gathered. 00:00:59.179 --> 00:01:02.020 I have given you as food to the beasts of the 00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:05.120 field and to the birds of the heavens. Then all 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:07.959 the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:10.579 the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed 00:01:10.579 --> 00:01:13.239 to the house of Israel. When they took hold of 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:16.079 you with the hand, you broke and tore all their 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:18.819 shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke 00:01:18.819 --> 00:01:22.200 and made all their backs quiver. Therefore thus 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:24.879 says the Lord God, Surely I will bring a sword 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:27.959 upon you, and cut off from you man and beast, 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.780 and the land of Egypt shall become desolate and 00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:33.439 waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord, 00:01:33.540 --> 00:01:36.239 because he said, The river is mine, and I have 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.379 made it. Indeed, therefore, I am against you 00:01:39.379 --> 00:01:41.819 and against your rivers, and I will make the 00:01:41.819 --> 00:01:44.780 land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from 00:01:44.780 --> 00:01:48.000 Migdal to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia. 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.439 Neither foot of man shall pass through it, nor 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:54.340 foot of beast pass through it, and it shall be 00:01:54.340 --> 00:01:57.560 uninhabited forty years. I will make the land 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:59.659 of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries 00:01:59.659 --> 00:02:02.120 that are desolate, and among the cities that 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.659 are laid waste, her cities shall be desolate 00:02:04.659 --> 00:02:07.120 forty years. And I will scatter the Egyptians 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:09.800 among the nations, and disperse them throughout 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:13.139 the countries. Yet, thus says the Lord God, at 00:02:13.139 --> 00:02:15.599 the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:18.620 from the peoples among whom They were scattered. 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:21.840 I will bring back the captives of Egypt and cause 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.560 them to return to the land of Pathros, to the 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:27.280 land of their origin, and there they shall be 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.080 a lowly kingdom. It shall be the lowliest of 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:32.879 kingdoms. It shall never again exalt itself above 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:35.319 the nations, for I will diminish them so that 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.539 they will not rule over the nations anymore. 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:40.659 No longer shall it be the confidence of the house 00:02:40.659 --> 00:02:43.719 of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:46.370 when they turned to follow them. Then they shall 00:02:46.370 --> 00:02:50.330 know that I am the Lord God. And it came to pass 00:02:50.330 --> 00:02:52.689 in the twenty -seventh year, in the first month, 00:02:52.770 --> 00:02:54.830 on the first day of the month, that the word 00:02:54.830 --> 00:02:58.389 of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar 00:02:58.389 --> 00:03:01.789 king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously 00:03:01.789 --> 00:03:04.990 against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every 00:03:04.990 --> 00:03:08.590 shoulder rubbed raw. Yet neither he nor his army 00:03:08.590 --> 00:03:11.210 received wages from Tyre for the labor which 00:03:11.210 --> 00:03:14.090 they expended on it. Therefore thus says the 00:03:14.090 --> 00:03:16.490 Lord God, Surely I will give the land of Egypt 00:03:16.490 --> 00:03:19.349 to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He shall take 00:03:19.349 --> 00:03:22.150 away her wealth, carry off her spoil, and remove 00:03:22.150 --> 00:03:25.189 her pillage, and that will be the wages for his 00:03:25.189 --> 00:03:27.830 army. I have given him the land of Egypt for 00:03:27.830 --> 00:03:30.789 his labor, because they worked for me, says the 00:03:30.789 --> 00:03:33.949 Lord God. in that day i will cause the horn of 00:03:33.949 --> 00:03:36.590 the house of israel to spring forth and i will 00:03:36.590 --> 00:03:39.530 open your mouth to speak in their midst then 00:03:39.530 --> 00:03:44.430 they shall know that i am the lord chapter thirty 00:03:44.430 --> 00:03:47.030 the word of the lord came to me again saying 00:03:47.030 --> 00:03:50.310 son of man prophesy and say thus says the lord 00:03:50.310 --> 00:03:54.789 god wail woe to the day for the day is near even 00:03:54.789 --> 00:03:57.509 the day of the lord is near It will be a day 00:03:57.509 --> 00:04:00.469 of clouds, the time of the Gentiles. The sword 00:04:00.469 --> 00:04:02.969 shall come upon Egypt, and great anguish shall 00:04:02.969 --> 00:04:06.009 be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt, 00:04:06.150 --> 00:04:08.729 and they take away her wealth, and her foundations 00:04:08.729 --> 00:04:13.330 are broken down. Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all 00:04:13.330 --> 00:04:16.029 the mingled people, Chubb, and the men of the 00:04:16.029 --> 00:04:18.949 lands who are allied, shall fall with them by 00:04:18.949 --> 00:04:21.930 the sword. Thus says the Lord, Those who uphold 00:04:21.930 --> 00:04:25.029 Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her power 00:04:25.029 --> 00:04:29.019 shall come down. from migdal to syene those within 00:04:29.019 --> 00:04:31.920 her shall fall by the sword says the lord god 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:35.160 they shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:37.399 countries and her cities shall be in the midst 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.420 of the cities that are laid waste then they will 00:04:40.420 --> 00:04:43.220 know that i am the lord when i have set a fire 00:04:43.220 --> 00:04:46.379 in egypt and all her helpers are destroyed On 00:04:46.379 --> 00:04:49.379 that day messengers shall go forth from me in 00:04:49.379 --> 00:04:52.040 ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, 00:04:52.139 --> 00:04:55.240 and great anguish shall come upon them as on 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:58.720 the day of Egypt, for indeed it is coming. Thus 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:01.439 says the Lord God, I will also make a multitude 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:04.600 of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:07.079 king of Babylon. He and his people with him, 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:09.839 the most terrible of nations, shall be brought 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:12.319 to destroy the land. They shall draw their swords 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.660 against Egypt and fill the land with the slain. 00:05:15.019 --> 00:05:17.480 I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:20.100 into the hand of the wicked. I will make the 00:05:20.100 --> 00:05:23.120 land waste, and all that is in it by the hand 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:26.459 of aliens, I the Lord have spoken. Thus says 00:05:26.459 --> 00:05:29.079 the Lord God, I will also destroy the idols, 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:32.560 and cause the images to cease from Nof. There 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:34.899 shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt. 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:37.680 I will put fear in the land of Egypt. I will 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:41.420 make Pathros desolate, set fire to Zon, and execute 00:05:41.420 --> 00:05:44.750 judgments in Noh. I will pour my fury on Sin, 00:05:44.889 --> 00:05:47.430 the strength of Egypt. I will cut off the multitude 00:05:47.430 --> 00:05:51.269 of Noh, and set a fire in Egypt. Sin shall have 00:05:51.269 --> 00:05:54.870 great pain. Noh shall be split open, and Nof 00:05:54.870 --> 00:05:58.310 shall be in distress daily. The young men of 00:05:58.310 --> 00:06:01.949 Avin and Pi -Beset shall fall by the sword, and 00:06:01.949 --> 00:06:04.910 these cities shall go into captivity. At Taqpanis 00:06:04.910 --> 00:06:07.930 the day shall also be darkened, when I break 00:06:07.930 --> 00:06:10.930 the yokes of Egypt there, and her arrogant strength 00:06:10.930 --> 00:06:13.930 shall cease in her. As for her, a cloud shall 00:06:13.930 --> 00:06:16.509 cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 00:06:17.170 --> 00:06:20.149 Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt, then 00:06:20.149 --> 00:06:23.230 they shall know that I am the Lord. And it came 00:06:23.230 --> 00:06:25.829 to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, 00:06:25.910 --> 00:06:27.949 on the seventh day of the month, that the word 00:06:27.949 --> 00:06:30.889 of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, I 00:06:30.889 --> 00:06:33.149 have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, 00:06:33.290 --> 00:06:36.310 and see, it has not been bandaged for healing, 00:06:36.529 --> 00:06:40.050 nor a splint put on it to bind it, to make it 00:06:40.050 --> 00:06:42.740 strong enough to hold a sword. Therefore thus 00:06:42.740 --> 00:06:45.480 says the Lord God, Surely I am against Pharaoh, 00:06:45.660 --> 00:06:48.560 king of Egypt, and will break his arms, both 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:51.680 the strong one and the one that was broken, and 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:54.540 I will make the sword fall out of his hand. I 00:06:54.540 --> 00:06:56.439 will scatter the Egyptians among the nations 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:59.220 and disperse them throughout the countries. I 00:06:59.220 --> 00:07:01.459 will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon 00:07:01.459 --> 00:07:04.860 and put my sword in his hand. But I will break 00:07:04.860 --> 00:07:07.699 Pharaoh's arms, and he will groan before him 00:07:07.699 --> 00:07:10.279 with the groanings of a mortally wounded man. 00:07:10.730 --> 00:07:13.230 Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of 00:07:13.230 --> 00:07:16.089 Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down. 00:07:16.430 --> 00:07:19.209 They shall know that I am the Lord. When I put 00:07:19.209 --> 00:07:21.490 my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, 00:07:21.629 --> 00:07:24.350 and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt, 00:07:24.509 --> 00:07:26.829 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations 00:07:26.829 --> 00:07:29.430 and disperse them throughout the countries. Then 00:07:29.430 --> 00:07:34.410 they shall know that I am the Lord. Chapter 31 00:07:34.410 --> 00:07:37.449 Now it came to pass in the eleventh year, in 00:07:37.449 --> 00:07:39.350 the third month on the first day of the month, 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:41.759 that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.019 Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and 00:07:45.019 --> 00:07:48.120 to his multitude, Whom are you like in your greatness? 00:07:48.459 --> 00:07:51.819 Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with fine 00:07:51.819 --> 00:07:54.180 branches that shaded the forest, and of high 00:07:54.180 --> 00:07:57.319 stature. And its top was among the thick boughs. 00:07:57.459 --> 00:08:00.839 The waters made it grow, underground waters gave 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.360 it height, with their rivers running around the 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.860 place where it was planted, and sent out rivulets 00:08:06.860 --> 00:08:10.069 to all the trees of the field. therefore its 00:08:10.069 --> 00:08:12.069 height was exalted above all the trees of the 00:08:12.069 --> 00:08:15.170 field its boughs were multiplied and its branches 00:08:15.170 --> 00:08:17.790 became long because of the abundance of water 00:08:17.790 --> 00:08:21.230 as it sent them out all the birds of the heavens 00:08:21.230 --> 00:08:24.610 made their nests in its boughs under its branches 00:08:24.610 --> 00:08:27.509 all the beasts of the field brought forth their 00:08:27.509 --> 00:08:30.949 young and in its shadow all great nations made 00:08:30.949 --> 00:08:33.470 their home thus it was beautiful in greatness 00:08:33.470 --> 00:08:36.190 and in the length of its branches because its 00:08:36.190 --> 00:08:39.490 roots reached to abundant waters. The cedars 00:08:39.490 --> 00:08:42.309 in the garden of God could not hide it. The fir 00:08:42.309 --> 00:08:45.370 trees were not like its boughs, and the chestnut 00:08:45.370 --> 00:08:48.389 trees were not like its branches. No tree in 00:08:48.389 --> 00:08:51.350 the garden of God was like it in beauty. I made 00:08:51.350 --> 00:08:53.929 it beautiful with a multitude of branches, so 00:08:53.929 --> 00:08:56.470 that all the trees of Eden envied it that were 00:08:56.470 --> 00:08:59.289 in the garden of God. Therefore thus says the 00:08:59.289 --> 00:09:01.870 Lord God, Because you have increased in height, 00:09:02.029 --> 00:09:05.580 and it set its top among the thick boughs, and 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:08.100 its heart was lifted up in its height therefore 00:09:08.100 --> 00:09:10.399 i will deliver it into the hand of the mighty 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:13.080 one of the nations and he shall surely deal with 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:16.120 it i have driven it out for its wickedness and 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.799 aliens the most terrible of the nations have 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:21.659 cut it down and left it its branches have fallen 00:09:21.659 --> 00:09:24.600 on the mountains and in all the valleys its boughs 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:27.279 lie broken by all the rivers of the land and 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:29.860 all the peoples of the earth have gone from under 00:09:29.860 --> 00:09:33.210 its shadow and left it On its ruin will remain 00:09:33.210 --> 00:09:35.570 all the birds of the heavens, and all the beasts 00:09:35.570 --> 00:09:38.370 of the field will come to its branches, so that 00:09:38.370 --> 00:09:41.970 no trees by the waters may ever again exalt themselves 00:09:41.970 --> 00:09:44.970 for their height, nor set their tops among the 00:09:44.970 --> 00:09:47.909 thick boughs, that no tree which drinks water 00:09:47.909 --> 00:09:50.750 may ever be high enough to reach up to them. 00:09:50.929 --> 00:09:53.750 For they have all been delivered to death, to 00:09:53.750 --> 00:09:56.070 the depth of the earth, among the children of 00:09:56.070 --> 00:09:59.379 men who go down to the pit. Thus says the Lord 00:09:59.379 --> 00:10:30.190 God, All that drink water were comforted in the 00:10:30.190 --> 00:10:33.210 depth of the earth. They also went down to hell 00:10:33.210 --> 00:10:36.269 with it, with those slain by the sword, and those 00:10:36.269 --> 00:10:39.370 who were its strong arm dwelt in its shadows 00:10:39.370 --> 00:10:42.610 among the nations. To which of the trees of Eden 00:10:42.610 --> 00:10:45.330 will you then be likened in glory and greatness? 00:10:45.769 --> 00:10:48.230 Yet you shall be brought down with the trees 00:10:48.230 --> 00:10:51.090 of Eden to the depth of the earth. You shall 00:10:51.090 --> 00:10:53.990 lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those 00:10:53.990 --> 00:10:57.059 slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh. and all 00:10:57.059 --> 00:11:05.460 his multitude, says the Lord God. I hope you 00:11:05.460 --> 00:11:07.820 enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and 00:11:07.820 --> 00:11:09.679 I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow to 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:11.940 continue on our journey. God bless you and have 00:11:11.940 --> 00:11:12.480 a great day.