WEBVTT 00:00:01.000 --> 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 --> 00:00:09.039 in a year. Today's reading is from the book of 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.699 Ezekiel, chapters 25 through 28, as well as chapter 00:00:12.699 --> 00:00:17.579 32. Chapter 25 The word of the Lord came to me, 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:20.579 saying, Son of man, set your face against the 00:00:20.579 --> 00:00:23.420 Ammonites, and prophesy against them. Say to 00:00:23.420 --> 00:00:25.600 the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God, 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:28.800 thus says the Lord God. Because you said, Aha! 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:32.159 against my sanctuary when it was profaned and 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.100 against the land of Israel when it was desolate 00:00:34.100 --> 00:00:36.600 and against the house of Judah when they went 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:39.460 into captivity indeed therefore I will deliver 00:00:39.460 --> 00:00:42.880 you as a possession to the men of the east and 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:45.799 they shall set their encampments among you and 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:47.920 make their dwellings among you they shall eat 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.039 your fruit and they shall drink your milk and 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:54.280 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and Ammon 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:57.500 a resting place for flocks then you shall know 00:00:58.969 --> 00:01:23.930 For thus says the Lord God, Thus says the Lord 00:01:23.930 --> 00:01:27.450 God, Because Moab and Seir say, Look, the house 00:01:27.450 --> 00:01:29.670 of Judah is like all the nations. Therefore, 00:01:29.790 --> 00:01:32.709 behold, I will clear the territory of Moab of 00:01:32.709 --> 00:01:35.849 cities, of the cities on its frontier, the glory 00:01:35.849 --> 00:01:42.750 of the country. To the men of the east I will 00:01:42.750 --> 00:01:45.420 give it as a possession. together with the Ammonites, 00:01:45.500 --> 00:01:47.819 that the Ammonites may not be remembered among 00:01:47.819 --> 00:01:50.319 the nations. And I will execute judgments upon 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:52.879 Moab, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:56.180 Thus says the Lord God, because of what Edom 00:01:56.180 --> 00:01:58.540 did against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:01.780 and has greatly offended by avenging itself on 00:02:01.780 --> 00:02:04.480 them. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, I will 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:07.359 also stretch out my hand against Edom, cut off 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:09.939 man and beast from it, and make it desolation 00:02:09.939 --> 00:02:13.979 from Timan. Dedan shall fall by the sword. I 00:02:13.979 --> 00:02:16.280 will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:19.400 my people Israel, that they may do in Edom according 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:22.439 to my anger and according to my fury, and they 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:34.619 shall know my vengeance, says the Lord God. Thus 00:02:34.619 --> 00:02:55.340 says the Lord God, And it came to pass in the 00:02:55.340 --> 00:02:57.300 eleventh year, on the first day of the month, 00:02:57.439 --> 00:02:59.400 that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 00:02:59.819 --> 00:03:03.020 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:06.800 Aha, she is broken, who was the gateway of the 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.939 peoples. Now she is turned over to me, I shall 00:03:09.939 --> 00:03:13.120 be filled, she is laid waste. Therefore thus 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:15.879 says the Lord God, Behold, I am against you, 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:18.759 O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:21.759 against you, as the sea causes its waves to come 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:24.469 up. and they shall destroy the walls of tyre 00:03:24.469 --> 00:03:27.330 and break down her towers i will also scrape 00:03:27.330 --> 00:03:30.270 her dust from her and make her like the top of 00:03:30.270 --> 00:03:33.150 a rock it shall be a place for spreading nets 00:03:33.150 --> 00:03:36.129 in the midst of the sea for i have spoken says 00:03:36.129 --> 00:03:38.909 the lord god it shall become plunder for the 00:03:38.909 --> 00:03:41.990 nations also her daughter villages which are 00:03:41.990 --> 00:03:44.789 in the fields shall be slain by the sword then 00:03:44.789 --> 00:03:47.550 they shall know that i am the lord For thus says 00:03:47.550 --> 00:03:50.430 the Lord God, Behold, I will bring against Tyre 00:03:50.430 --> 00:03:53.210 from the north Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, 00:03:53.469 --> 00:03:56.810 king of kings, with horses, with chariots, and 00:03:56.810 --> 00:03:59.270 with horsemen, and an army with many people. 00:03:59.430 --> 00:04:01.909 He will slay with the sword your daughter villages 00:04:01.909 --> 00:04:04.689 in the fields. He will heap up a siege mound 00:04:04.689 --> 00:04:07.509 against you, build a wall against you, and raise 00:04:07.509 --> 00:04:10.669 a defense against you. He will direct his battering 00:04:10.669 --> 00:04:13.569 rams against your walls, and with his axes he 00:04:13.569 --> 00:04:16.790 will break down your towers. Because of the abundance 00:04:16.790 --> 00:04:19.709 of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your 00:04:19.709 --> 00:04:22.310 walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, 00:04:22.370 --> 00:04:25.449 the wagons, and the chariots when he enters your 00:04:25.449 --> 00:04:28.689 gates, as men enter a city that has been breached. 00:04:28.889 --> 00:04:31.449 With the hooves of his horses he will trample 00:04:31.449 --> 00:04:33.889 all your streets, he will slay your people by 00:04:33.889 --> 00:04:36.430 the sword, and your strong pillars will fall 00:04:36.430 --> 00:04:38.889 to the ground. They will plunder your riches 00:04:38.889 --> 00:04:41.350 and pillage your merchandise. They will break 00:04:41.350 --> 00:04:43.389 down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. 00:04:43.899 --> 00:04:46.540 They will lay your stones, your timber, and your 00:04:46.540 --> 00:04:49.300 soil in the midst of the water. I will put an 00:04:49.300 --> 00:04:51.860 end to the sound of your songs, and the sound 00:04:51.860 --> 00:04:54.579 of your harps shall be heard no more. I will 00:04:54.579 --> 00:04:57.259 make you like the top of a rock. You shall be 00:04:57.259 --> 00:05:00.279 a place for spreading nets, and you shall never 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.579 be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken, says 00:05:03.579 --> 00:05:06.939 the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God to Tyre, 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:09.959 Will the coastlands not shake at the sound of 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:12.600 your fall, when the wounded cry, when slaughter 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.860 is made in the midst of you? Then all the princes 00:05:15.860 --> 00:05:18.259 of the sea will come down from their thrones, 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:21.600 lay aside their robes, and take off their embroidered 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.100 garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.339 They will sit on the ground, tremble every moment, 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:30.160 and be astonished at you. And they will take 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.959 up a lamentation for you, and say to you, How 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:36.220 you have perished, O one inhabited by seafaring 00:05:36.220 --> 00:05:39.310 men! or renowned city who was strong at sea. 00:05:39.509 --> 00:05:42.670 She and her inhabitants, who caused their terror 00:05:42.670 --> 00:05:45.970 to be on all her inhabitants, now the coastlands 00:05:45.970 --> 00:05:49.370 tremble on the day of your fall. Yes, the coastlands 00:05:49.370 --> 00:05:53.050 by the sea are troubled at your departure. For 00:05:53.050 --> 00:05:55.649 thus says the Lord God, When I make you a desolate 00:05:55.649 --> 00:05:58.670 city, like cities that are not inhabited, when 00:05:58.670 --> 00:06:01.449 I bring the deep upon you, and great waters cover 00:06:01.449 --> 00:06:04.310 you, Then I will bring you down with those who 00:06:04.310 --> 00:06:07.430 descend into the pit to the people of old, and 00:06:07.430 --> 00:06:09.750 I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the 00:06:09.750 --> 00:06:13.129 earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with 00:06:13.129 --> 00:06:15.649 those who go down to the pit, so that you may 00:06:15.649 --> 00:06:18.829 never be inhabited. And I shall establish glory 00:06:18.829 --> 00:06:21.509 in the land of the living. I will make you a 00:06:21.509 --> 00:06:24.189 terror, and you shall be no more. Though you 00:06:24.189 --> 00:06:26.689 are sought for, you will never be found again, 00:06:26.930 --> 00:06:33.300 says the Lord God. The word of the Lord came 00:06:33.300 --> 00:06:36.579 again to me, saying, Now, son of man, take up 00:06:36.579 --> 00:06:39.560 a lamentation for Tyre, and say to Tyre, You 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:42.120 who are situated at the entrance of the sea, 00:06:42.339 --> 00:06:45.680 merchant of the peoples on many coastlands, thus 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:49.319 says the Lord God. O Tyre, you have said, I am 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:52.060 perfect in beauty. Your borders are in the midst 00:06:52.060 --> 00:06:54.879 of the seas. Your builders have perfected your 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.160 beauty. They made all your planks of fir trees 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.639 from sinear. They took a cedar from Lebanon to 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.139 make you a mast. Of oaks from Bashan they made 00:07:05.139 --> 00:07:08.759 your oars. The company of Assyrites have inlaid 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:12.100 your planks with ivory from the coasts of Cyprus. 00:07:12.779 --> 00:07:16.019 Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was what you 00:07:16.019 --> 00:07:19.339 spread for your sale. Blue and purple from the 00:07:19.339 --> 00:07:23.319 coasts of Elisha was what covered you. Inhabitants 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:26.980 of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your wise 00:07:26.980 --> 00:07:30.509 men, Otair, were in you. They became your pilots. 00:07:31.029 --> 00:07:34.269 Elders of Gebel and its wise men were in you 00:07:34.269 --> 00:07:37.189 to caulk your seams. All the ships of the sea 00:07:37.189 --> 00:07:40.410 and their oarsmen were in you to market your 00:07:40.410 --> 00:07:43.629 merchandise. Those from Persia, Lydia, and Libya 00:07:43.629 --> 00:07:46.930 were in your army as men of war. They hung their 00:07:46.930 --> 00:07:49.589 shield and helmet in you. They gave splendor 00:07:49.589 --> 00:07:53.050 to you. Men of Arvad, with your army, were on 00:07:53.050 --> 00:07:55.569 your walls all around, and the men of Gamad. 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:58.100 were in your towers. They hung their shields 00:07:58.100 --> 00:08:01.000 on your walls all around. They made your beauty 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:04.680 perfect. Tarshish was your merchant because of 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:07.379 your many luxury goods. They gave you silver, 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:11.699 iron, tin, and lead for your goods. Javan, Tubal, 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:15.139 and Meshach were your traders. They bartered 00:08:15.139 --> 00:08:17.839 human lives and vessels of bronze for your merchandise. 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:21.319 Those from the house of Togarmah traded for your 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:24.839 wares with horses, steeds, and mules. The men 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.699 of Dedan were your traders. Many isles were the 00:08:28.699 --> 00:08:32.100 market of your hand. They brought you ivory tusks 00:08:32.100 --> 00:08:35.340 and ebony as payment. Syria was your merchant 00:08:35.340 --> 00:08:38.440 because of the abundance of goods you made. They 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:41.639 gave you for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidery, 00:08:42.100 --> 00:08:45.830 fine linen, corals, and rubies. Judah and the 00:08:45.830 --> 00:08:48.789 land of Israel were your traders. They traded 00:08:48.789 --> 00:08:52.110 for your merchandise wheat of Minit, millet, 00:08:52.309 --> 00:08:56.169 honey, oil, and balm. Damascus was your merchant 00:08:56.169 --> 00:08:59.190 because of the abundance of goods you made, because 00:08:59.190 --> 00:09:02.509 of your many luxury items, with the wine of Helbon 00:09:02.509 --> 00:09:06.389 and with white wool. Dan and Javan paid for your 00:09:06.389 --> 00:09:09.669 wares, traversing back and forth, wrought iron, 00:09:10.779 --> 00:09:14.139 and Cain were among your merchandise. Dedan was 00:09:14.139 --> 00:09:17.740 your merchant in saddlecloth for riding. Arabia 00:09:17.740 --> 00:09:20.299 and all the princes of Kedar were your regular 00:09:20.299 --> 00:09:23.580 merchants. They traded with you in lambs, rams, 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:27.360 and goats. The merchants of Sheba and Ramah were 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:29.980 your merchants. They traded for your wares, the 00:09:29.980 --> 00:09:32.759 choices, spices, all kinds of precious stones, 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:37.799 and gold. Haran, Cani, Eden, the merchants of 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.279 Sheba, Assyria, And Chilmad were your merchants. 00:09:41.500 --> 00:09:44.799 These were your merchants in choice items, in 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.820 purple cloth, in embroidered garments, in chests 00:09:47.820 --> 00:09:51.259 of multicolored apparel, in sturdy woven cords 00:09:51.259 --> 00:09:54.470 which were in your marketplace. the ships of 00:09:54.470 --> 00:09:57.309 tarshish were carriers of your merchandise you 00:09:57.309 --> 00:09:59.549 were filled and very glorious in the midst of 00:09:59.549 --> 00:10:02.850 the seas your oarsmen brought you into many waters 00:10:02.850 --> 00:10:05.529 but the east wind broke you in the midst of the 00:10:05.529 --> 00:10:09.509 seas your riches wares and merchandise your mariners 00:10:09.509 --> 00:10:12.909 and pilots your caulkers and merchandisers all 00:10:12.909 --> 00:10:15.649 your men of war who are in you and the entire 00:10:15.649 --> 00:10:18.629 company which is in your midst will fall into 00:10:18.629 --> 00:10:21.009 the midst of the seas on the day of your ruin 00:10:21.470 --> 00:10:24.350 The common land will shake at the sound of the 00:10:24.350 --> 00:10:27.529 cry of your pilots. All who handle the oar, the 00:10:27.529 --> 00:10:30.590 mariners, all the pilots of the sea, will come 00:10:30.590 --> 00:10:32.769 down from their ships and stand on the shore. 00:10:33.009 --> 00:10:35.309 They will make their voice heard because of you. 00:10:35.370 --> 00:10:38.230 They will cry bitterly and cast dust on their 00:10:38.230 --> 00:10:41.149 heads. They will roll about in ashes. They will 00:10:41.149 --> 00:10:43.909 shave themselves completely bald because of you, 00:10:44.070 --> 00:10:46.889 gird themselves with sackcloth and weep for you 00:10:46.889 --> 00:10:49.370 with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 00:10:50.190 --> 00:10:52.610 In their wailing for you, they will take up a 00:10:52.610 --> 00:10:55.649 lamentation and lament for you. What city is 00:10:55.649 --> 00:10:58.029 like Tyre, destroyed in the midst of the sea? 00:10:58.429 --> 00:11:01.350 When your wares went out by sea, you satisfied 00:11:01.350 --> 00:11:04.590 many people. You enriched the kings of the earth 00:11:04.590 --> 00:11:07.350 with your many luxury goods and your merchandise. 00:11:07.669 --> 00:11:10.149 But you are broken by the seas in the depth of 00:11:10.149 --> 00:11:13.149 the waters. Your merchandise and the entire company 00:11:13.149 --> 00:11:15.929 will fall in your midst. All the inhabitants 00:11:15.929 --> 00:11:19.090 of the isles will be astonished at you. Their 00:11:19.090 --> 00:11:21.850 kings will be greatly afraid, and their countenance 00:11:21.850 --> 00:11:24.490 will be troubled. The merchants among the peoples 00:11:24.490 --> 00:11:27.470 will hiss at you. You will become a horror and 00:11:27.470 --> 00:11:33.289 be no more forever. Chapter 28 The word of the 00:11:33.289 --> 00:11:36.190 Lord came to me again, saying, Son of man, say 00:11:36.190 --> 00:11:38.730 to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God, 00:11:39.049 --> 00:11:41.730 Because your heart is lifted up, and you say, 00:11:41.830 --> 00:11:45.389 I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods. in the 00:11:45.389 --> 00:11:48.049 midst of the seas. Yet you are a man and not 00:11:48.049 --> 00:11:50.750 a god, though you set your heart as the heart 00:11:50.750 --> 00:11:54.110 of a god. Behold, you are wiser than Daniel. 00:11:54.250 --> 00:11:57.269 There is no secret that can be hidden from you. 00:11:57.509 --> 00:12:00.169 With your wisdom and your understanding, you 00:12:00.169 --> 00:12:02.570 have gained riches for yourself and gathered 00:12:02.570 --> 00:12:05.590 gold and silver into your treasuries. By your 00:12:05.590 --> 00:12:07.929 great wisdom in trade, you have increased your 00:12:07.929 --> 00:12:10.750 riches, and your heart is lifted up because of 00:12:10.750 --> 00:12:13.549 your riches. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, 00:12:14.239 --> 00:12:16.320 Because you have set your heart as the heart 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.240 of a god, behold, therefore, I will bring strangers 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:21.919 against you, the most terrible of the nations, 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.559 and they shall draw their swords against the 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:27.340 beauty of your wisdom, and defile your splendor. 00:12:27.419 --> 00:12:30.320 They shall throw you down into the pit, and you 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.000 shall die the death of the slain in the midst 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:36.340 of the seas. Will you still say before him who 00:12:36.340 --> 00:12:39.580 slays you, I am a god? But you shall be a man 00:12:39.580 --> 00:12:42.580 and not a god, in the hand of him who slays you. 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:45.279 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:48.639 by the hand of aliens. For I have spoken, says 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.980 the Lord God. Moreover, the word of the Lord 00:12:51.980 --> 00:12:55.379 came to me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation 00:12:55.379 --> 00:12:58.220 for the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says 00:12:58.220 --> 00:13:01.139 the Lord God, You were the seal of perfection, 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.639 full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.840 in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.720 was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and diamond. 00:13:12.340 --> 00:13:16.059 beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:19.419 and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your 00:13:19.419 --> 00:13:22.379 timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the 00:13:22.379 --> 00:13:25.860 day you were created. You were the anointed cherub 00:13:25.860 --> 00:13:29.379 who covers I established you. You were on the 00:13:29.379 --> 00:13:32.360 holy mountain of God. You walked back and forth 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:35.240 in the midst of fiery stones. You were perfect 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:38.259 in your ways from the day you were created till 00:13:38.259 --> 00:13:41.519 iniquity was found in you. by the abundance of 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:44.039 your trading you became filled with violence 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:48.080 within and you sinned therefore i cast you as 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:50.980 a profane thing out of the mountain of god and 00:13:50.980 --> 00:13:54.240 i destroyed you o covering cherub from the midst 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:57.480 of the fiery stones your heart was lifted up 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:00.320 because of your beauty you corrupted your wisdom 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:03.080 for the sake of your splendour i cast you to 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:06.000 the ground i laid you before kings that they 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:09.100 might gaze at you You defiled your sanctuaries 00:14:09.100 --> 00:14:12.220 by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity 00:14:12.220 --> 00:14:15.100 of your trading. Therefore I brought fire from 00:14:15.100 --> 00:14:18.139 your midst, it devoured you, and I turned you 00:14:18.139 --> 00:14:21.240 to ashes upon earth. In the sight of all who 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.500 saw you, all who knew you among the peoples are 00:14:24.500 --> 00:14:27.740 astonished at you. You have become a horror and 00:14:27.740 --> 00:14:31.299 shall be no more forever. Then the word of the 00:14:31.299 --> 00:14:33.879 Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, set your 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:36.879 face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her, 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:40.639 and say, Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:43.659 against you, O Sidon. I will be glorified in 00:14:43.659 --> 00:14:46.159 your midst, and they shall know that I am the 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.000 Lord, when I execute judgments in her, and I 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:51.960 am hallowed in her. For I will send pestilence 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:55.120 upon her, and blood in her streets. The wounded 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:58.220 shall be judged in her midst, by the sword against 00:14:58.220 --> 00:15:01.039 her on every side. Then they shall know that 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:04.379 I am the Lord. And there shall no longer be a 00:15:04.379 --> 00:15:07.200 pricking briar or a painful thorn for the house 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:10.200 of Israel from among all who are around them, 00:15:10.299 --> 00:15:13.259 who despise them. Then they shall know that I 00:15:13.259 --> 00:15:16.899 am the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God, When 00:15:16.899 --> 00:15:19.039 I have gathered the house of Israel from the 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.799 peoples among whom they are scattered, and am 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:24.159 hallowed in them in the sight of the Gentiles, 00:15:24.509 --> 00:15:27.070 Then they will dwell in their own land, which 00:15:27.070 --> 00:15:30.210 I gave to my servant Jacob. And they will dwell 00:15:30.210 --> 00:15:33.429 safely there, build houses and plant vineyards. 00:15:33.649 --> 00:15:36.570 Yes, they will dwell securely, when I execute 00:15:36.570 --> 00:15:39.730 judgments on all those around them who despise 00:15:39.730 --> 00:15:42.350 them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord 00:15:42.350 --> 00:15:48.549 their God. And it came to pass in the twelfth 00:15:48.549 --> 00:15:51.389 year, in the twelfth month, on the first day 00:15:51.389 --> 00:15:53.690 of the month, that the word of the Lord came 00:15:53.690 --> 00:15:57.029 to me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation 00:15:57.029 --> 00:15:59.830 for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You 00:15:59.830 --> 00:16:02.429 are like a young lion among the nations, and 00:16:02.429 --> 00:16:05.169 you are like a monster in the seas, bursting 00:16:05.169 --> 00:16:08.330 forth in your rivers, troubling the waters with 00:16:08.330 --> 00:16:11.610 your feet, and fouling the rivers. Thus says 00:16:11.610 --> 00:16:14.289 the Lord God, I will therefore spread my net 00:16:14.289 --> 00:16:17.289 over you with a company of many people, and they 00:16:17.289 --> 00:16:20.309 will draw you up in my net. Then I will leave 00:16:20.309 --> 00:16:23.169 you on the land, I will cast you out on the open 00:16:23.169 --> 00:16:26.149 fields, and cause to settle on you all the birds 00:16:26.149 --> 00:16:28.769 of the heavens. And with you I will fill the 00:16:28.769 --> 00:16:31.690 beasts of the whole earth. I will lay your flesh 00:16:31.690 --> 00:16:34.490 on the mountains and fill the valleys with your 00:16:34.490 --> 00:16:37.549 carcass. I will also water the land with the 00:16:37.549 --> 00:16:40.230 flow of your blood. even to the mountains, and 00:16:40.230 --> 00:16:42.990 the riverbeds will be full of you. When I put 00:16:42.990 --> 00:16:45.990 out your light, I will cover the heavens and 00:16:45.990 --> 00:16:49.549 make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with 00:16:49.549 --> 00:16:51.889 a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. 00:16:52.210 --> 00:16:54.950 All the bright lights of the heavens I will make 00:16:54.950 --> 00:16:57.990 dark over you, and bring darkness upon your land, 00:16:58.169 --> 00:17:01.789 says the Lord God. I will also trouble the hearts 00:17:01.789 --> 00:17:04.089 of many peoples, when I bring your destruction 00:17:04.089 --> 00:17:06.869 among the nations, in the countries which you 00:17:06.869 --> 00:17:09.329 have not known. Yes, I will make many peoples 00:17:09.329 --> 00:17:12.549 astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly 00:17:12.549 --> 00:17:15.329 afraid of you when I brandish my sword before 00:17:15.329 --> 00:17:18.650 them, and they shall tremble every moment, every 00:17:18.650 --> 00:17:21.609 man for his own life in the day of your fall. 00:17:22.309 --> 00:17:24.930 For thus says the Lord God, The sword of the 00:17:24.930 --> 00:17:28.210 king of Babylon shall come upon you, by the swords 00:17:28.210 --> 00:17:30.829 of the mighty warriors, all of them the most 00:17:30.829 --> 00:17:33.410 terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude 00:17:33.410 --> 00:17:36.809 to fall. they shall plunder the pomp of egypt 00:17:36.809 --> 00:17:40.289 and all its multitude shall be destroyed also 00:17:40.289 --> 00:17:43.690 i will destroy all its animals from beside its 00:17:43.690 --> 00:17:46.569 great waters the foot of man shall muddy them 00:17:46.569 --> 00:17:50.289 no more nor shall the hoofs of animals muddy 00:17:50.289 --> 00:17:53.569 them then i will make their waters clear and 00:17:53.569 --> 00:17:56.349 make their rivers run like oil says the lord 00:17:56.349 --> 00:17:59.869 god when i make the land of egypt desolate and 00:17:59.869 --> 00:18:02.450 the country is destitute of all that once filled 00:18:02.450 --> 00:18:06.230 it when i strike all who dwell in it then they 00:18:06.230 --> 00:18:10.529 shall know that i am the lord this is the lamentation 00:18:10.529 --> 00:18:14.089 with which they shall lament her the daughters 00:18:14.089 --> 00:18:16.869 of the nations shall lament her they shall lament 00:18:16.869 --> 00:18:20.410 for her for egypt and for all her multitude says 00:18:20.410 --> 00:18:24.000 the lord god it came to pass also in the twelfth 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:26.920 year on the fifteenth day of the month that the 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:29.599 word of the lord came to me saying son of man 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:32.839 wail over the multitude of egypt and cast them 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:35.720 down to the depth of the earth her and the daughters 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:38.539 of the famous nations with those who go down 00:18:38.539 --> 00:18:42.460 to the pit whom do you surpass in beauty go down 00:18:42.460 --> 00:18:45.819 be placed with the uncircumcised they shall fall 00:18:45.819 --> 00:18:48.460 in the midst of those slain by the sword she 00:18:48.460 --> 00:18:51.740 is delivered to the sword drawing her and all 00:18:51.740 --> 00:18:54.299 her multitudes, the strong among the mighty, 00:18:54.420 --> 00:18:57.700 shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with 00:18:57.700 --> 00:19:00.599 those who help him. They have gone down, they 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.339 lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 00:19:04.299 --> 00:19:07.279 Assyria is there, and all her company, with their 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.539 graves all around her, all of them slain, fallen 00:19:10.539 --> 00:19:13.940 by the sword. Her graves are set in the recesses 00:19:13.940 --> 00:19:16.980 of the pit, and her company is all around her 00:19:16.980 --> 00:19:20.299 grave, all of them slain. fallen by the sword, 00:19:20.460 --> 00:19:22.960 who caused terror in the land of the living. 00:19:23.539 --> 00:19:26.940 There is Elam and all her multitude, all around 00:19:26.940 --> 00:19:30.220 her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.480 who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:36.140 parts of the earth, who caused their terror in 00:19:36.140 --> 00:19:38.740 the land of the living. Now they bear their shame 00:19:38.740 --> 00:19:41.619 with those who go down to the pit. They have 00:19:41.619 --> 00:19:44.079 set her bed in the midst of the slain with all 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:46.900 her multitude, with her graves all around it. 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:50.200 all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 00:19:50.500 --> 00:19:53.119 Though their terror was caused in the land of 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:55.859 the living, yet they bear their shame with those 00:19:55.859 --> 00:19:58.779 who go down to the pit. It was put in the midst 00:19:58.779 --> 00:20:02.319 of the slain. There are Meshach and Tubal and 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:04.779 all their multitudes, with all their graves around 00:20:04.779 --> 00:20:08.299 it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:10.859 though they caused their terror in the land of 00:20:10.859 --> 00:20:13.079 the living. They do not lie with the mighty. 00:20:13.500 --> 00:20:16.359 who are fallen of the uncircumcised who have 00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:19.559 gone down to hell with their weapons of war they 00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:22.460 have laid their swords under their heads but 00:20:22.460 --> 00:20:25.400 their iniquities will be on their bones because 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:28.079 of the terror of the mighty in the land of the 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:31.500 living yes you shall be broken in the midst of 00:20:31.500 --> 00:20:34.500 the uncircumcised and lie with those slain by 00:20:34.500 --> 00:20:37.599 the sword there is edom her kings and all her 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:40.940 princes who despite their might are laid beside 00:20:40.940 --> 00:20:43.690 those slain by the sword They shall lie with 00:20:43.690 --> 00:20:46.269 the uncircumcised, and with those who go down 00:20:46.269 --> 00:20:49.089 to the pit. There are the princes of the north, 00:20:49.269 --> 00:20:52.369 all of them, and all Sidonians, who have gone 00:20:52.369 --> 00:20:56.269 down with the slain, in shame at the terror which 00:20:56.269 --> 00:20:59.609 they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised 00:20:59.609 --> 00:21:02.450 with those slain by the sword, and bear their 00:21:02.450 --> 00:21:05.970 shame with those who go down to the pit. Pharaoh 00:21:05.970 --> 00:21:08.549 will see them, and be comforted over all his 00:21:08.549 --> 00:21:11.539 multitude. Pharaoh and all his army, slain by 00:21:11.539 --> 00:21:14.640 the sword, says the Lord God. For I have caused 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:17.099 my terror in the land of the living, and he shall 00:21:17.099 --> 00:21:19.799 be placed in the midst of the uncircumcised with 00:21:19.799 --> 00:21:22.500 those slain by the sword. Pharaoh and all his 00:21:22.500 --> 00:21:30.700 multitude, says the Lord God. I hope you enjoyed 00:21:30.700 --> 00:21:33.019 today's reading as much as I did, and I look 00:21:33.019 --> 00:21:34.980 forward to seeing you again tomorrow to continue 00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:37.180 on our journey. God bless you and have a great 00:21:37.180 --> 00:21:37.440 day.