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- 0:00Speaker 1: Today the prophet Isaiah chapter one, the vision concerning Judah
- 0:06Speaker 1: and Jerusalem, that Isaiah, son of AMA's solderon reigns of Isiah,
- 0:12Speaker 1: Jotham a Has and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear me, you, heavens,
- 0:18Speaker 1: listen earth, for the Lord has spoken. I reared children
- 0:23Speaker 1: and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
- 0:26Speaker 1: The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner's manger.
- 0:31Speaker 1: But Israel does not know. My people do not understand.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Woe to the sinful nation of people whose guild is great,
- 0:41Speaker 1: a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption. They have
- 0:47Speaker 1: forsaken the Lord. They have spurned the Holy One of
- 0:50Speaker 1: Israel and turned their backs on him. Why should you
- 0:54Speaker 1: be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your
- 0:59Speaker 1: whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. From the
- 1:03Speaker 1: soul of your foot to the top of your head.
- 1:07Speaker 1: There's no soundness, only wounds and welts and open sores,
- 1:13Speaker 1: not cleanse or bandaged or soothed with olive oil. Your
- 1:17Speaker 1: country is desolate, Your city's burned with fire. Your fields
- 1:22Speaker 1: are being stripped by foreigners. Right before you laid waste
- 1:27Speaker 1: as when overthrown by strangers. Daughter Zion is left like
- 1:32Speaker 1: a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut, and a
- 1:35Speaker 1: cucumber field, like a city under siege. Unless the Lord
- 1:40Speaker 1: Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become
- 1:44Speaker 1: like Sodom. We would have been like Gamara. Hear the
- 1:49Speaker 1: word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom. Listen to
- 1:53Speaker 1: the instruction of our God, you people of Gamar. The
- 1:57Speaker 1: multitude of your sacrifices were they to me, says the Lord.
- 2:04Speaker 1: I have more than enough of burnt offerings of rams,
- 2:07Speaker 1: and the fat of fat and animals. I have no
- 2:10Speaker 1: pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
- 2:14Speaker 1: When you come to appear before me, who has asked
- 2:18Speaker 1: us of you this trampling of my courts. Stop bringing
- 2:22Speaker 1: meaningless offerings. Your incense is detestable to me. New moons, sabbaths,
- 2:29Speaker 1: and convocations. I cannot bear your worthless assemblies, your new
- 2:34Speaker 1: moon feasts, and your appointed festivals. I hate with all
- 2:38Speaker 1: my being. They become a burden to me. I am
- 2:42Speaker 1: weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands
- 2:45Speaker 1: in prayer, I hide my eyes from you, even when
- 2:49Speaker 1: you offer many prayers. I am not listening. Your hands
- 2:55Speaker 1: are full of blood. Whyle sho make yourselves clean, Take
- 2:59Speaker 1: your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing wrong,
- 3:03Speaker 1: learn to do right, seek justice, defend the oppressed, Take
- 3:09Speaker 1: up the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of
- 3:12Speaker 1: the widow. Come now, let us settle the matter, says
- 3:16Speaker 1: the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall
- 3:20Speaker 1: be as white as snow. Though they are red as crimson,
- 3:25Speaker 1: they shall be like well. If you are willing and obedient,
- 3:29Speaker 1: you will eat the good things of the land. But
- 3:32Speaker 1: if you resist and rebel, you'll be devoured by the sword.
- 3:36Speaker 1: For the mouth of the Lord is spoken. See how
- 3:39Speaker 1: the faithful city has become a prostitute. She once was
- 3:44Speaker 1: full of justice. Righteousness used to dwell in her, But
- 3:48Speaker 1: now murderers, your silver has become dross. Your choice wine
- 3:54Speaker 1: is diluted with water. Your rulers are rebels, partners with
- 3:59Speaker 1: thieves us. They all love bribes and chase after gifts.
- 4:05Speaker 1: They do not defend the cause of the fatherless. The
- 4:09Speaker 1: widow's case does not come before them. Therefore, the Lord,
- 4:14Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty, the Mighty, one of Israel, declares ah
- 4:20Speaker 1: I will vet my wrath on my foes, and avenge
- 4:23Speaker 1: myself on my enemies. I will turn my hand against you.
- 4:28Speaker 1: I will thoroughly purge away your draws and remove all
- 4:32Speaker 1: your impurities. I will restore your leaders as in days
- 4:37Speaker 1: of old, your rulers, as at the beginning. Afterward, you'll
- 4:42Speaker 1: be called the city of Righteousness, the faithful city. Zion
- 4:47Speaker 1: will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness.
- 4:53Speaker 1: But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those
- 4:56Speaker 1: who forsake the Lord will perish. You will be a
- 4:59Speaker 1: sha because of the sacred oaks in which you've delighted.
- 5:04Speaker 1: You will be disgraced because of the gardens that you
- 5:06Speaker 1: have chosen. You will be like an oak with fading leaves,
- 5:10Speaker 1: like a garden without water. The mighty man will become tender,
- 5:15Speaker 1: and his work a spark. Both will burn together with
- 5:19Speaker 1: no one to quench the fire. Isaiah too, This is
- 5:23Speaker 1: what Isaiah's son of Ammas saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
- 5:28Speaker 1: In the last days. The mountain of the Lord's Temple
- 5:32Speaker 1: will be established as the highest of the mountains. It
- 5:35Speaker 1: will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will
- 5:38Speaker 1: stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, come,
- 5:43Speaker 1: let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
- 5:46Speaker 1: to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will
- 5:48Speaker 1: teach us his ways, so that we may walk in
- 5:51Speaker 1: his paths. The law will go out from Zion, the
- 5:55Speaker 1: word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will judge between
- 5:59Speaker 1: the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They
- 6:03Speaker 1: will beat their sword into plowshares and their spears into
- 6:07Speaker 1: pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation,
- 6:12Speaker 1: nor will they train for war anymore. Come, descendants of Jacob,
- 6:17Speaker 1: let us walk in the light of the Lord. You Lord,
- 6:21Speaker 1: have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are
- 6:25Speaker 1: full of superstitions in the east. They practice divination like
- 6:30Speaker 1: the Philistians, and embrace pagan customs. Their land is full
- 6:34Speaker 1: of silver and gold. There is no end to their treasures.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Their land is full horses, There is no end to
- 6:42Speaker 1: their chariots. Their land is full of idols. They bowed
- 6:47Speaker 1: down to the work of their hands, to what their
- 6:50Speaker 1: fingers are made. So people will be brought low and
- 6:54Speaker 1: everyone humbled. Do not forgive them. Go into the rocks,
- 6:59Speaker 1: hide in the ground from the fearful presence of the
- 7:02Speaker 1: Lord and the splendor of his majesty. The eyes of
- 7:06Speaker 1: the arrogant will be humbled, and human pride brought low.
- 7:10Speaker 1: The Lord alone will be exalted in that day. The
- 7:13Speaker 1: Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the
- 7:16Speaker 1: proud and lofty, for all that is exalted, and they
- 7:20Speaker 1: will be humbled. For all the cedars of Lebanon, tall
- 7:25Speaker 1: and lofty, and all the oaks of bas For all
- 7:29Speaker 1: the towering mountains, and all the high hills, for every
- 7:33Speaker 1: lofty tower, in every fortified wall, for every trading ship
- 7:39Speaker 1: and every stately vessel. The arrogance of man will be
- 7:43Speaker 1: brought low, and human pride humbled. The Lord alone will
- 7:48Speaker 1: be exalted in that day, and the idols will totally disappear.
- 7:52Speaker 1: People will flee to caves and the rocks and the
- 7:55Speaker 1: holes in the ground from the fearful presence the Lord
- 8:00Speaker 1: and the splendor of his majesty. When he rises to
- 8:03Speaker 1: shake the earth in that day, people will throw away
- 8:07Speaker 1: to the moles and bats. They're idols of silver and
- 8:11Speaker 1: idols of gold, which they made to worship. They will
- 8:15Speaker 1: flee the caverns in the rocks, and to the overhanging crags,
- 8:20Speaker 1: from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor
- 8:23Speaker 1: of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Stop trusting in mere humans who have but a breath
- 8:31Speaker 1: in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem? Isaiah three.
- 8:36Speaker 1: See now the Lord Almighty is about to take from
- 8:42Speaker 1: Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support, all supplies of
- 8:47Speaker 1: food and all supplies of water. The hero and the warrior,
- 8:52Speaker 1: the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,
- 8:56Speaker 1: the captain of fifty and the man of rank, counselor
- 9:00Speaker 1: skilled craftsmen and clever enchanter. I will make mere use
- 9:05Speaker 1: their officials. Children will rule over them. People will oppress
- 9:10Speaker 1: each other, man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young
- 9:15Speaker 1: will rise up against the old, the nobody against the honored.
- 9:19Speaker 1: A man will seize one of his brothers in his
- 9:21Speaker 1: father's house and say, you have a cloak. You be
- 9:25Speaker 1: our leader, take charge of the sep of ruins. But
- 9:30Speaker 1: in that day he will cry out, I have no remedy,
- 9:34Speaker 1: I have no food or clothing in my house. Do
- 9:38Speaker 1: not make me the leader of the people. Jerusalem staggers.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Judah is falling. Their words and deeds are against the Lord,
- 9:47Speaker 1: defying his glorious presence. The look on their faces testifies
- 9:52Speaker 1: against them. They parade their sin like sodom, they do
- 9:56Speaker 1: not hide it. Woe to them they have brought the
- 9:59Speaker 1: zen upon themselves. Tell the righteous it will be well
- 10:04Speaker 1: with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Woe to the wicked disasters upon them. They will be
- 10:13Speaker 1: paid back for what their hands have done. You'ds oppress
- 10:16Speaker 1: my people. Women rule over them my people. Your guides
- 10:21Speaker 1: lead you astray, They turn you from the path. The
- 10:24Speaker 1: Lord takes his place in court. He rises to judge
- 10:28Speaker 1: the people. The Lord enters into judgment against the elders
- 10:32Speaker 1: and leaders of his people. It is you who have
- 10:35Speaker 1: ruined my vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in
- 10:39Speaker 1: your houses. What do you mean by crushing my people
- 10:42Speaker 1: and grinding the faces of poor, declares the Lord. The
- 10:46Speaker 1: Lord Almighty. The Lord says, the women of Zion are haughty,
- 10:51Speaker 1: walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, strutting
- 10:56Speaker 1: along with swaying hips, with ornaments jingling on their ankles. Therefore,
- 11:03Speaker 1: the Lord will bring swords on the heads of the
- 11:05Speaker 1: women of Zion. The Lord will make their scalps bald.
- 11:10Speaker 1: In that day, the Lord will snatch away their finery,
- 11:13Speaker 1: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces, the ear rings
- 11:18Speaker 1: and bracelets and veils, the head dresses and anklets and sashes,
- 11:23Speaker 1: the perfume bottles and charms, the signet rings and nose rings,
- 11:29Speaker 1: the fine robes, and the capes and cloaks, the purses
- 11:33Speaker 1: and mirrors, and the linen garments and tai eras and shawls.
- 11:38Speaker 1: Instead of fragrance, there will be a stench instead of
- 11:42Speaker 1: a sash, a rope instead of well dressed hair, baldness
- 11:47Speaker 1: instead of fine clothing, sackcloth instead of beauty branding. Your
- 11:52Speaker 1: men will fall by the sword your warriors in battle.
- 11:56Speaker 1: The gates of Zion will lament and mourn institute. She
- 12:01Speaker 1: will sit on the ground Isaiah, for in that day
- 12:05Speaker 1: seven women will take hold of one man and say,
- 12:08Speaker 1: we will eat our own food and provide our own clothes. Only,
- 12:13Speaker 1: let us be called by your name, take away our disgrace.
- 12:17Speaker 1: In that day the brands of the Lord will be
- 12:20Speaker 1: beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will
- 12:23Speaker 1: be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem
- 12:31Speaker 1: will be called holy. All who are recorded among the
- 12:34Speaker 1: living in Jerusalem. The Lord will wash away the filth
- 12:38Speaker 1: of the women of Zion. He will cleanse the blood
- 12:40Speaker 1: stains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a
- 12:44Speaker 1: spirit of fire. Then the Lord will create over all
- 12:48Speaker 1: of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there, a
- 12:52Speaker 1: cloud of smoke by day, and a glow of flaming
- 12:55Speaker 1: fire by night. Over everything. The glory will be a canopy.
- 13:00Speaker 1: It will be a shelter and shade from the heat
- 13:03Speaker 1: of the day, and a refuge in hiding place from
- 13:06Speaker 1: the storm and rain. Isaiah five. I will sing for
- 13:10Speaker 1: the one I love a song about his vineyard. My
- 13:13Speaker 1: loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He
- 13:16Speaker 1: dug it up and cleared of stones, and planted it
- 13:19Speaker 1: with the choicest vines. He built a watch tower in it,
- 13:23Speaker 1: and cut out a wine press as well. Then he
- 13:25Speaker 1: looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded
- 13:29Speaker 1: only bad fruit. Now, you dwellers in Jerusalem and people
- 13:33Speaker 1: of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more
- 13:38Speaker 1: could have been done for my vineyard than I have
- 13:40Speaker 1: done for it? When I look for good grapes, why
- 13:43Speaker 1: did it yield only bad? Now I will tell you
- 13:46Speaker 1: what I am going to do to my vineyard. I
- 13:49Speaker 1: will take away its hedge and it will be destroyed.
- 13:52Speaker 1: I will break down its wall and it will be trampled.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I will make it a wasteland, neither prune nor cultivated,
- 14:00Speaker 1: and briars and thorns will grow there. I will command
- 14:03Speaker 1: the clouds not to rain on it. The vineyard of
- 14:06Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the
- 14:10Speaker 1: people of Judah are the vines he delighted in, and
- 14:13Speaker 1: he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed for righteousness, but
- 14:19Speaker 1: heard cries of distress. Woe to you who add house
- 14:23Speaker 1: to house and join field of field till no space
- 14:26Speaker 1: is left, and you live alone in the land. The
- 14:29Speaker 1: Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing. Surely the great
- 14:33Speaker 1: houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.
- 14:38Speaker 1: A ten acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine.
- 14:42Speaker 1: A homer of sea will yield only an ethel of grain.
- 14:46Speaker 1: Woe to those who rise early in the morning to
- 14:48Speaker 1: run after their drinks, who stay up late at night
- 14:52Speaker 1: till they are inflamed with wine. They have harps and
- 14:55Speaker 1: lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine. But
- 15:00Speaker 1: they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord,
- 15:03Speaker 1: no respect for the work of his hands. Therefore, my
- 15:07Speaker 1: people will go into exile for lack of understanding. Those
- 15:11Speaker 1: of high rank will die of hunger, and the common
- 15:14Speaker 1: people will be parched with thirst. Therefore death expands its jaws,
- 15:20Speaker 1: opening wide its mouth into will descend their nobles and masses,
- 15:25Speaker 1: with all their brawlers and revelers. So people will be
- 15:29Speaker 1: brought low, and everyone humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled.
- 15:35Speaker 1: But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice,
- 15:38Speaker 1: and the Holy God will be proved holy by his
- 15:41Speaker 1: righteous acts. Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich. Woe
- 15:49Speaker 1: to those who draw us, and along with cords of
- 15:52Speaker 1: deceit and wickedness, as with cart ropes, to those who say,
- 15:57Speaker 1: let God hurry, let hasten his work, so we may
- 16:01Speaker 1: see it the plan of the Holy One of Israel.
- 16:04Speaker 1: Let it approach, let it come into view, so we
- 16:08Speaker 1: may know it. Woe to those who call evil good
- 16:11Speaker 1: and good evil, who put darkness for light and light
- 16:15Speaker 1: for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
- 16:20Speaker 1: Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
- 16:23Speaker 1: and clever in their own sight. Woe to those who
- 16:26Speaker 1: are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,
- 16:32Speaker 1: who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice
- 16:36Speaker 1: to the innocent. Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw,
- 16:41Speaker 1: and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so
- 16:44Speaker 1: their roots will decay, and their flowers blow away like dust.
- 16:49Speaker 1: For they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty,
- 16:52Speaker 1: and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- 16:55Speaker 1: Therefore the Lord's anger burns against his people. His hand
- 16:59Speaker 1: is raised, and he strikes them down the mountain shake,
- 17:04Speaker 1: and the dead bodies will like refuse in the streets.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Yet for all this his anger is not turned away.
- 17:12Speaker 1: His hand is still upraised. He lifts up a banner
- 17:16Speaker 1: for the distant nations. He whistles for those at the
- 17:19Speaker 1: ends of the earth. Here they come swiftly and speedily.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Not one of them grows tired or stumbles. Not one
- 17:27Speaker 1: slumbers or sleeps. Not a belt is loosened at the waist,
- 17:32Speaker 1: not a sandal strap is broken. Their arrows are sharp,
- 17:37Speaker 1: all their bows are strong. Their horses hooves seem like flint,
- 17:42Speaker 1: Their chariot wheels like a whirlwind. Their roars like that
- 17:45Speaker 1: of a lion. They roar like young lions. They growl
- 17:49Speaker 1: as they seize their prey and carry it off with
- 17:52Speaker 1: no one to rescue. In that day they will roar
- 17:56Speaker 1: over it like the roaring of the sea. And if
- 17:59Speaker 1: one looks at the land, there's only darkness and distress.
- 18:04Speaker 1: Even the sun will be darkened by clouds. Isaiah six.
- 18:08Speaker 1: In the year that King Aziah died, I saw the
- 18:12Speaker 1: Lord High and exalted, seated on a throne, and the
- 18:16Speaker 1: train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim,
- 18:21Speaker 1: each with six wings. With two wings, they covered their faces,
- 18:26Speaker 1: with two they covered their feet, and with two they
- 18:29Speaker 1: were flying, And they were calling to one another. Holy, Holy,
- 18:35Speaker 1: Holy is the Lord Almighty. The whole earth is full
- 18:38Speaker 1: of his glory. At the sound of their voices, the
- 18:42Speaker 1: door posts and threshold shook, and the temple was filled
- 18:46Speaker 1: with smoke. Whoe to me, I cried, I am ruined,
- 18:51Speaker 1: for I am a man of unclean lips, and I
- 18:54Speaker 1: live among the people of unclean lips. And my eyes
- 18:58Speaker 1: have seen the King, the Lord Almighty. Then one of
- 19:02Speaker 1: the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in
- 19:05Speaker 1: his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
- 19:09Speaker 1: With it, he touched my mouth and said, see this
- 19:12Speaker 1: has touched your lips. Your guilt is taken away, and
- 19:15Speaker 1: your sent atone For Then I heard the voice of
- 19:18Speaker 1: the Lord, saying, whom shall I send and who will
- 19:22Speaker 1: go for us? And I said, here am I send me?
- 19:27Speaker 1: He said, go and tell the people, be ever hearing
- 19:31Speaker 1: but never understanding, be ever seeing but never perceiving, Make
- 19:36Speaker 1: the heart of this people calloused, make their ears though,
- 19:40Speaker 1: and close their eyes, otherwise they might see with their eyes,
- 19:45Speaker 1: hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn
- 19:50Speaker 1: and be healed. Then I said, for how long? Lord?
- 19:55Speaker 1: And he answered, until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant,
- 20:00Speaker 1: until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined
- 20:04Speaker 1: and ravaged, until the Lord has sent everyone far away,
- 20:09Speaker 1: and the land is utterly forsaken, And though a tenth
- 20:12Speaker 1: remains in the land, it will again be laid waste.
- 20:16Speaker 1: But as the terrabinth and oak leaves stumps when they
- 20:19Speaker 1: are cut down, so the holy seed will be the
- 20:22Speaker 1: stump in the land. Isaiah seven, when I had son
- 20:26Speaker 1: of Jotham, the son of Isaiah, was king of Judah,
- 20:30Speaker 1: king resident of Aram, and Peca's son of Rhemaliah, king
- 20:34Speaker 1: of Israel, marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they
- 20:38Speaker 1: could not overpower it. Now the House of David was
- 20:41Speaker 1: told Aram has allied itself with Ephrium. So the hearts
- 20:46Speaker 1: of it has as people were shaken, as the trees
- 20:50Speaker 1: of the forest are shaken by the wind. Then the
- 20:53Speaker 1: Lord said to Isaiah, go out, you and your son
- 20:57Speaker 1: Sheer Joshua to meet. I has the end of the
- 21:00Speaker 1: aqueduct of the upper Pool, on the road to the
- 21:04Speaker 1: Launders field. Say to him, be careful, keep calm, and
- 21:08Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these
- 21:12Speaker 1: two smoldering stubs of firewood, because of the fierce anger
- 21:16Speaker 1: of Resin and Arim, and of the son of Remaliyah. Aram,
- 21:20Speaker 1: Ephrium and Remaliah's son have plotted your ruin, saying, let
- 21:25Speaker 1: us invade Judah. Let us tear it apart and divide
- 21:28Speaker 1: it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabio king
- 21:32Speaker 1: over it. Yet this is what the sovereign Lord says
- 21:37Speaker 1: Isaiah seven. It will not take place. It will not happen,
- 21:42Speaker 1: For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head
- 21:45Speaker 1: of Damascus is only Resin. Within sixty five years, Ephrium
- 21:51Speaker 1: will be too shattered to be a people. The head
- 21:54Speaker 1: of Ephrium is some Maria, and the head of some
- 21:57Speaker 1: Maria is only Remaliah's. If you do not stand firm
- 22:02Speaker 1: in your faith, you will not stand at all. Again,
- 22:06Speaker 1: the Lord spoke to it, has asked the Lord your
- 22:09Speaker 1: God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or
- 22:12Speaker 1: in the highest heights. But it has said, I will
- 22:16Speaker 1: not ask. I will not put the Lord to the test.
- 22:20Speaker 1: Then Isaiah said, here, now, your house of David, is
- 22:24Speaker 1: it not enough to try the patients of humans? Will
- 22:27Speaker 1: you try the patience to my God? Also? Therefore the
- 22:31Speaker 1: Lord himself will give you a sign. The Virgin will
- 22:35Speaker 1: conceive and give birth to a son, and will call
- 22:38Speaker 1: him Emmanuel. He will be eating kurds and honey when
- 22:42Speaker 1: he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right.
- 22:45Speaker 1: For before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong
- 22:48Speaker 1: and choose the right. The land of the two kings
- 22:51Speaker 1: you dread will be laid waste. The Lord will bring
- 22:55Speaker 1: on you, and on your people, and on the house
- 22:59Speaker 1: of your father, a time unlike any since Ephriam broke
- 23:03Speaker 1: away from Judah. He will bring the King of Assyria.
- 23:07Speaker 1: In that day the Lord will whistle for flies from
- 23:10Speaker 1: the Nile Delta in Egypt, and for bees from the
- 23:15Speaker 1: land of Assyria. They will all come and settle in
- 23:19Speaker 1: the steep ravines and in the crevices, in the rocks,
- 23:22Speaker 1: on all the thorn bushes, and at all the water holes.
- 23:27Speaker 1: In that day the Lord will use a razor hired
- 23:30Speaker 1: from beyond the Euphrates River the King of Assyria, to
- 23:34Speaker 1: shave your head and private parts, and to cut off
- 23:38Speaker 1: your beard. Also in that day a person will keep
- 23:41Speaker 1: alive a young cow and two goats, And because of
- 23:45Speaker 1: the abundance of the milk they give, there will be
- 23:48Speaker 1: curds to eat. All who remain in the land will
- 23:51Speaker 1: eat kurds and honey. In that day, in every place
- 23:55Speaker 1: where there were a thousand vines, where the thousand silver shekels,
- 24:00Speaker 1: there will be only briars and thorns. Hunters will go
- 24:04Speaker 1: there with bow and arrow, for the lamb will be
- 24:07Speaker 1: covered with briars and thorns. As for all the hills,
- 24:11Speaker 1: once cultivated by the hole, you will no longer go there,
- 24:15Speaker 1: for fear of the briars and thorns. They will become
- 24:18Speaker 1: places where cattle are turned loose, and where sheep run
- 24:23Speaker 1: Isaiah Ate. The Lord said to me, take a large
- 24:27Speaker 1: scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen. Marshal
- 24:31Speaker 1: arw Hashbaz. So I called in Uriah the priest, and Zechariah,
- 24:36Speaker 1: son of Jeborikiah, as reliable witnesses for me. Then I
- 24:40Speaker 1: made love to prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth
- 24:44Speaker 1: to a son. And the Lord said to me name
- 24:48Speaker 1: him Marshal l Hashbaths. For before the boy knows how
- 24:51Speaker 1: to say my father or my mother, the wealth of
- 24:55Speaker 1: Damascus and the plunder of so Maria will be carried
- 24:59Speaker 1: off by the king of Assyria. The Lord spoke to
- 25:03Speaker 1: me again, because this people is rejected the gently flowing
- 25:07Speaker 1: waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Resin and the son
- 25:12Speaker 1: of Reemlayah. Therefore the Lord is about to bring against
- 25:16Speaker 1: them the mighty floodwaters of the euphrates the king of
- 25:20Speaker 1: Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels,
- 25:25Speaker 1: run over all its banks, and sweep on into Judah,
- 25:29Speaker 1: swirling over it, passing through it, and reaching up to
- 25:33Speaker 1: the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of
- 25:37Speaker 1: your land, Oh Emmanuel, raise the war, Cry you nations,
- 25:42Speaker 1: and be shattered. Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for
- 25:47Speaker 1: battle and be shattered. Prepare for battle, and be shattered.
- 25:51Speaker 1: Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted. Propose your plan,
- 25:56Speaker 1: but it will not stand, for God is with us.
- 26:00Speaker 1: This is what the Lord says to me, with a
- 26:03Speaker 1: strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the
- 26:06Speaker 1: way of this people. Do not call conspiracy. Everything this
- 26:11Speaker 1: people calls a conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear,
- 26:15Speaker 1: and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the
- 26:18Speaker 1: one you are to regard as holy. He is the
- 26:21Speaker 1: one you are to fear. He is the one you
- 26:23Speaker 1: are to dread. He will be a holy place for
- 26:27Speaker 1: both Israel and Judah. He will be a stone that
- 26:31Speaker 1: causes people stumble and a rock that makes them fall,
- 26:35Speaker 1: And for all the people of Jerusalem. Isaiah eight verses
- 26:40Speaker 1: fourteen to twenty two. He will be a trap and
- 26:43Speaker 1: a snare for the people of Jerusalem. Many of them
- 26:47Speaker 1: will stumble, they will fall and be broken. They will
- 26:51Speaker 1: be snared and captured. Bind up this testimony of warning
- 26:56Speaker 1: and seal up God's instruction among my disciples. Will wait
- 27:00Speaker 1: for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the
- 27:03Speaker 1: descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.
- 27:06Speaker 1: Here am I and the children the Lord has given me.
- 27:10Speaker 1: We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty,
- 27:15Speaker 1: who dwells on Mount Zion. When someone tells you to
- 27:19Speaker 1: consult mediums and spiritus who whisper and mutter, should not
- 27:24Speaker 1: have people inquire their God. Why consult the dead on
- 27:28Speaker 1: behalf of the living. Consult God's instruction and the testimony
- 27:32Speaker 1: of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word,
- 27:36Speaker 1: they have no light of dawn. Distressed and hungry, they
- 27:41Speaker 1: will roam through the land. When they are famished, they
- 27:45Speaker 1: will become enraged, and looking upward, will curse their king
- 27:50Speaker 1: and their God. Then they will look toward the earth
- 27:54Speaker 1: and see only distress and darkness and fearful glow, and
- 27:58Speaker 1: they will be thrust into uttered darkness Isaiah nine, verses
- 28:02Speaker 1: one to twenty one. Nevertheless, there will be no more
- 28:06Speaker 1: gloom for those who are in distress. In the past
- 28:10Speaker 1: he humbled the land of Zebulen and the land of Naftali.
- 28:15Speaker 1: But in the future he will honor galilee of the nations.
- 28:19Speaker 1: By the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, the
- 28:23Speaker 1: people walking in darkness have seen a great light. On
- 28:26Speaker 1: those living in the land of deep darkness, a light
- 28:30Speaker 1: has dawned. You have enlarged a nation and increased their joy.
- 28:35Speaker 1: They rejoice before you, as people rejoice at the harvest,
- 28:39Speaker 1: as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder. For as in
- 28:43Speaker 1: the day of Midians defeat, you have shattered the yoke
- 28:47Speaker 1: that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod
- 28:51Speaker 1: of their oppressor. Every warrior's boot used in battle, and
- 28:56Speaker 1: every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning,
- 29:00Speaker 1: will be fuel for the fire. For to us a
- 29:03Speaker 1: child is born, to us, a son is given, and
- 29:07Speaker 1: the government will be on his shoulders, and he will
- 29:09Speaker 1: be called wonderful counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- 29:17Speaker 1: Of the greatness of his government and peace. There will
- 29:20Speaker 1: be no end. He will reign on David's throne and
- 29:25Speaker 1: over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness.
- 29:31Speaker 1: From that time on in forever, the zeal of the
- 29:34Speaker 1: Lord Almighty will accomplish this. The Lord has sent a
- 29:38Speaker 1: message against Jacob. It will fall on Israel. All the
- 29:42Speaker 1: people will know it. Ephraim and the inhabitants of Somara,
- 29:47Speaker 1: who say, with pride and arrogance of heart, the bricks
- 29:51Speaker 1: have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone.
- 29:55Speaker 1: The fig trees have been felled, but we will replace
- 29:58Speaker 1: them with cedars. But the Lord has strengthened resins foes
- 30:02Speaker 1: against them, and has spurred their enemies on Era. Means
- 30:06Speaker 1: from the east and Phelistans from the West have devoured
- 30:10Speaker 1: Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this his anger
- 30:15Speaker 1: is not turned away. His hand is still upraised. But
- 30:19Speaker 1: the people have not returned to him who struck them,
- 30:23Speaker 1: nor have they sought the Lord Almighty. So the Lord
- 30:26Speaker 1: will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm,
- 30:30Speaker 1: branch and read in a single day. The elders and
- 30:34Speaker 1: dignitaries are ahead. The prophets who teach lies or the
- 30:38Speaker 1: tale those who guide this people mislead them, and those
- 30:42Speaker 1: who are guided or led astray. Therefore the Lord will
- 30:46Speaker 1: take no pleasure in the young men. No will be
- 30:49Speaker 1: pity the fatherless and widows. For everyone is ungodly and wicked.
- 30:55Speaker 1: Every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger
- 30:59Speaker 1: is not turned away. His hand is still upraised. Surely,
- 31:04Speaker 1: wickedness burns like a fire. It consumes briars and thorns,
- 31:09Speaker 1: it says, the forest thickets a blaze, so that it
- 31:13Speaker 1: rolls upward in a column of smoke. By the wrath
- 31:16Speaker 1: of the Lord Almighty, the lamb will be scorched, and
- 31:20Speaker 1: the people will be fuel for the fire. They will
- 31:23Speaker 1: not spare one another. On the right, they will devour,
- 31:27Speaker 1: but still be hungry. On the left, they will eat,
- 31:30Speaker 1: but not be satisfied. Each will feed on the flesh
- 31:34Speaker 1: of their own offspring. Manassa will feed on Ephriam, and
- 31:38Speaker 1: Ephrium on Manassa. Together they will turn against Judah. Yet
- 31:43Speaker 1: for all this his anger is not turned away. His
- 31:47Speaker 1: hand is still upraised. Isaiah ten, verses one to six.
- 31:52Speaker 1: Whate to those who make unjust laws, to those who
- 31:56Speaker 1: issue oppressive decrees to deprive the poor of their rights,
- 32:00Speaker 1: and with whole justice from the oppressed of my people,
- 32:04Speaker 1: making widows their prey, and robbing the fatherless. What will
- 32:08Speaker 1: you do on the day of reckoning? When disaster comes
- 32:12Speaker 1: from Afar? To whom will you run for help? Where
- 32:15Speaker 1: will you leave your riches? Nothing will remain but to
- 32:19Speaker 1: cringe among the captives, or fall among the slain. Yet
- 32:23Speaker 1: for all this, his anger is not turned away. His
- 32:27Speaker 1: hand is still appraised. Woe to the Assyrian, the rod
- 32:31Speaker 1: of my anger, in whose hand is the club of
- 32:34Speaker 1: my wrath. I send him against a godless nation. I
- 32:39Speaker 1: despatch him against the people who Isaiah ten verses seven
- 32:43Speaker 1: to thirty four. But this is not what he intends.
- 32:47Speaker 1: This is not what he has in mind. His purpose
- 32:50Speaker 1: is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.
- 32:54Speaker 1: Are not my commanders. All kings, he says, has not
- 32:59Speaker 1: called no Fiar like Carchemish, is not hammered like Arpid,
- 33:03Speaker 1: and soa Maria like Damascus. As my hand sees the
- 33:08Speaker 1: kingdoms of the Idols, kingdoms whose images excel those at
- 33:12Speaker 1: Jerusalem and some Maria. Shall I not deal with Jerusalem
- 33:16Speaker 1: and her images as I dealt with some Maria and
- 33:19Speaker 1: her Idols. When the Lord has finished all his work
- 33:23Speaker 1: against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, I will
- 33:28Speaker 1: punish the king of Assyria for the wilful pride of
- 33:31Speaker 1: his heart and the haughty look in his eyes. For
- 33:34Speaker 1: he says, by the strength of my hand, I have
- 33:37Speaker 1: done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding,
- 33:43Speaker 1: I remove the boundaries of nations. I plundered their treasures
- 33:48Speaker 1: like a mighty one. I subdued their kings. As one
- 33:52Speaker 1: reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the
- 33:55Speaker 1: wealth of the nations. As people gather abandoned eggs, So
- 34:00Speaker 1: I gathered all the countries. Not one flapped a wing
- 34:04Speaker 1: or open its mouth to chirp. Does the axe raise
- 34:07Speaker 1: itself above the one who swings it, Or the saw
- 34:10Speaker 1: boasts against the one who uses it, as if a
- 34:13Speaker 1: rod were to wield a person who lifts it up,
- 34:16Speaker 1: or a club brandished the one who is not wood. Therefore,
- 34:20Speaker 1: the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will send a wasting disease
- 34:24Speaker 1: upon his sturdy warriors. Under his pompifier will be kindled
- 34:29Speaker 1: like a blazing flame. The light of Israel will become
- 34:32Speaker 1: a fire there holy won a flame. In a single day,
- 34:36Speaker 1: it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers,
- 34:41Speaker 1: the splendor of his forests and fertile fields. It will
- 34:44Speaker 1: completely destroy, as when a sick person wastes away, and
- 34:49Speaker 1: the remaining trees of his forest will be so few
- 34:52Speaker 1: that a child could write them down. In that day,
- 34:56Speaker 1: the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no
- 35:00Speaker 1: longer rely on him who struck them down, but will
- 35:04Speaker 1: truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
- 35:08Speaker 1: A remnant will return. A remnant of Jacob will return
- 35:12Speaker 1: to the Mighty God. Though your people be like the
- 35:15Speaker 1: sand by the sea Israel, only a remnant will return.
- 35:20Speaker 1: Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous. The Lord, the
- 35:25Speaker 1: Lord Almighty will carry out the destruction decreed upon the
- 35:30Speaker 1: whole land. Therefore, this is what the Lord, the Lord
- 35:34Speaker 1: Almighty says, My people who live in Zion, do not
- 35:39Speaker 1: be afraid of the Assyrians who beat you with the
- 35:42Speaker 1: rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
- 35:45Speaker 1: Very soon, my anger against you will end, and my
- 35:49Speaker 1: wrath will be directed to their destruction. The Lord Almighty
- 35:53Speaker 1: will lash them with a whip, as when he struck
- 35:56Speaker 1: down Midian at the Rock of Auroub, and he will
- 35:59Speaker 1: raise staff over the waters, as he did in Egypt.
- 36:03Speaker 1: In that day. Their burden will be lifted from your shoulders,
- 36:07Speaker 1: their yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken
- 36:10Speaker 1: because you have grown so fat. They enter Ayath, They
- 36:15Speaker 1: pass through Migron. They store supplies at Micmash. They go
- 36:20Speaker 1: over the pass and say, we will camp overnight at
- 36:23Speaker 1: Gaba Rama trembles, Gabo salt fleas. Cry out, Daughter Gallim,
- 36:31Speaker 1: listen Leah poor anathof Madmana is in flight. The people
- 36:37Speaker 1: of Jebim take cover. This day. They will halt at knob.
- 36:41Speaker 1: They will shake their fists at the mount of Daughter Zion,
- 36:45Speaker 1: at the hill of Jerusalem, see the Lord. The Lord
- 36:49Speaker 1: Almighty will lop off the boughs with great power. The
- 36:53Speaker 1: lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones brought low.
- 36:57Speaker 1: He will cut down the forest thickets with an A
- 37:01Speaker 1: Lebanon will fall before the Mighty one Isaiah eleven, verses
- 37:05Speaker 1: one to ten. A shoot will come up from the
- 37:08Speaker 1: stump of Jesse. From his roots, a branch will bear fruit.
- 37:13Speaker 1: The spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the
- 37:16Speaker 1: spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel
- 37:21Speaker 1: and of might, the spirit of a knowledge and fear
- 37:24Speaker 1: the Lord, and he will delight in the fear of
- 37:27Speaker 1: the Lord. He will not judge by what he sees
- 37:30Speaker 1: with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with
- 37:33Speaker 1: his ears, But with righteousness. He will judge the needy
- 37:37Speaker 1: with justice. He will give decisions to the poor of
- 37:40Speaker 1: the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod
- 37:43Speaker 1: of his mouth, with the breath of his lips, he
- 37:45Speaker 1: will slay the wicked. Righteousness will be his belt, and
- 37:50Speaker 1: faithfulness to sash around his waist. The wolf will live
- 37:54Speaker 1: with the lamb. The leopard will lie down with the goat.
- 37:57Speaker 1: The calf and the lion and the yearling together, and
- 38:01Speaker 1: a little child will lead them. The cow will feed
- 38:04Speaker 1: with the bear. Their young will lie down together, and
- 38:08Speaker 1: the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant
- 38:11Speaker 1: will play near the cobra's den, and the young child
- 38:15Speaker 1: will put its hand into the viper's nest. They will
- 38:18Speaker 1: neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, For
- 38:22Speaker 1: the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord.
- 38:26Speaker 1: As the waters cover the sea. In that day, the
- 38:29Speaker 1: root of Jesse will stand as a banner for people's
- 38:32Speaker 1: The nations will rally to him, and his resting place
- 38:36Speaker 1: will be glorious. Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her.
- 38:42Speaker 1: All you who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all
- 38:47Speaker 1: you who mourn over her, For you will nurse and
- 38:50Speaker 1: be satisfied at her comforting breasts. You will drink deeply
- 38:56Speaker 1: and delight in her overflowing abundance. For this is what
- 38:59Speaker 1: the Lord says. I will extend peace to her like
- 39:03Speaker 1: a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream.
- 39:08Speaker 1: You will nurse and be carried on her arm and
- 39:11Speaker 1: damdled on her knees. As a mother comforts her child.
- 39:16Speaker 1: So will I comfort you, and you will be comforted
- 39:19Speaker 1: over Jerusalem. When you see this, your heart will rejoice,
- 39:25Speaker 1: and you will flourish like grass. The hand of the
- 39:29Speaker 1: Lord will be made known to his servants, but his
- 39:32Speaker 1: fury will be shown to his foes. See the Lord
- 39:36Speaker 1: is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind.
- 39:41Speaker 1: He will bring down his anger with fury, and his
- 39:44Speaker 1: rebuke with flames of fire. For with fire and with
- 39:48Speaker 1: his sword, the Lord will execute judgment on all people.
- 39:54Speaker 1: And many will be those slain by the Lord, those
- 39:57Speaker 1: who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens,
- 40:03Speaker 1: following one who is among those who eat the flesh
- 40:07Speaker 1: of pigs, rats, and other unclean things. They will meet
- 40:11Speaker 1: their end together with the one they follow, declares the Lord.
- 40:18Speaker 1: And I, because of what they have planned and done,
- 40:22Speaker 1: am about to come and gather the people of all
- 40:25Speaker 1: nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.
- 40:30Speaker 1: I will set a sign among them, and I will
- 40:33Speaker 1: send some of those who survived the nations to Tarsish,
- 40:38Speaker 1: to the Libyans and Lydians famous as archers, to Jubile
- 40:43Speaker 1: and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not
- 40:48Speaker 1: heard of my fame or see my glory. They will
- 40:51Speaker 1: proclaim my glory among the nations, and they will bring
- 40:56Speaker 1: all your people from all the nations to my holy
- 41:01Speaker 1: mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord, on
- 41:05Speaker 1: horses and chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,
- 41:11Speaker 1: says the Lord. They will bring them as the Israelites
- 41:15Speaker 1: bring their grain offerings to the Temple of the Lord
- 41:18Speaker 1: in ceremonially clean vessels. And I will select some them
- 41:23Speaker 1: also to be priests and levites, says the Lord. As
- 41:28Speaker 1: the new heavens, and the new Earth that I make
- 41:31Speaker 1: will endure before me, declares the Lord. So will your
- 41:36Speaker 1: name and descendants endure from one new moon to another,
- 41:41Speaker 1: and from one Sabbath to another. All mankind will come
- 41:46Speaker 1: about down before me, says the Lord. And they will
- 41:51Speaker 1: go out and look on the dead bodies of those
- 41:54Speaker 1: who rebelled against me. The worms that eat them will
- 41:58Speaker 1: not die. The fire that burns and will not be quenched,
- 42:02Speaker 1: and they will be loathsome to all mankind. Today the
- 42:07Speaker 1: prophet Isaiah chapter one, the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem,
- 42:13Speaker 1: that Isaiah, son of EMA's Soverjeron, reigns of Isaiah, Jotham
- 42:19Speaker 1: Has and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear me, you, heavens,
- 42:24Speaker 1: listen to earth, for the Lord has spoken. I reared
- 42:28Speaker 1: children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
- 42:32Speaker 1: The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner's manger.
- 42:37Speaker 1: But Israel does not know. My people do not understand.
- 42:42Speaker 1: Woe to the sinful nation of people whose guilt is great,
- 42:47Speaker 1: A brood of evildoers, children given to corruption. They have
- 42:53Speaker 1: forsaken the Lord. They have spurned the Holy One of
- 42:56Speaker 1: Israel and turned their backs on him. Why should you
- 43:00Speaker 1: be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your
- 43:05Speaker 1: whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. From the
- 43:09Speaker 1: sole of your foot to the top of your head.
- 43:13Speaker 1: There's no soundness, only wounds and welts and open sores,
- 43:19Speaker 1: not cleanse or bandaged or soothed with olive oil. Your
- 43:23Speaker 1: country is desolate, Your city's burned with fire. Your fields
- 43:28Speaker 1: are being stripped by foreigners right before you laid waste
- 43:33Speaker 1: as when overthrown by strangers. Daughter Zion is left like
- 43:38Speaker 1: a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut, and a
- 43:41Speaker 1: cucumber field, like a city under siege. Unless the Lord
- 43:46Speaker 1: Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become
- 43:50Speaker 1: like Sodom. We would have been like Gomara. Hear the
- 43:55Speaker 1: word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom. Listen to
- 43:59Speaker 1: the instruction of our God, you people of Gamar. The
- 44:03Speaker 1: multitude of your sacrifices were they to me, says the Lord.
- 44:09Speaker 1: I have more than enough of burnt offerings of rams
- 44:13Speaker 1: and fat, of fat and animals. I have no pleasure
- 44:17Speaker 1: in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When
- 44:21Speaker 1: you come to appear before me, who has asked us
- 44:24Speaker 1: of you this trampling of my courts. Stop bringing meaningless offerings.
- 44:30Speaker 1: Your incense is detestable to me. New moons, sabbaths, and convocations.
- 44:36Speaker 1: I cannot bear your worthless assemblies, your new moon feasts,
- 44:41Speaker 1: and your appointed festivals. I hate with all my being.
- 44:45Speaker 1: They have become a burden to me. I am weary
- 44:48Speaker 1: of bearing them. When you spread out your hands in prayer,
- 44:52Speaker 1: I hide my eyes from you. Even when you offer
- 44:56Speaker 1: many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full
- 45:01Speaker 1: of blood. Why should make yourselves clean? Take your evil
- 45:06Speaker 1: deeds out of my sight. Stop doing wrong, learn to
- 45:10Speaker 1: do right, seek justice, defend the oppressed, take up the
- 45:15Speaker 1: cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
- 45:19Speaker 1: Come now, let us settle the matter, says the Lord.
- 45:23Speaker 1: Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as
- 45:26Speaker 1: white as snow. Though they are red as crimson, they
- 45:31Speaker 1: shall be like whoa. If you are willing and obedient,
- 45:35Speaker 1: you will eat the good things of the land. But
- 45:37Speaker 1: if you resist and rebel, you'll be devoured by the sword.
- 45:42Speaker 1: For the mouth of the Lord is spoken. See how
- 45:45Speaker 1: the faithful city has become a prostitute. She once was
- 45:50Speaker 1: full of justice. Righteousness used to dwell in her, But
- 45:54Speaker 1: now murderers. Your silver has become dross your choice. This
- 46:00Speaker 1: wine is diluted with water. Your rulers are rebels, partners
- 46:05Speaker 1: with thieves. They all love bribes and chase after gifts.
- 46:11Speaker 1: They do not defend the cause of the fatherless. The
- 46:15Speaker 1: widow's case does not come before them. Therefore, the Lord,
- 46:20Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares, Ah,
- 46:26Speaker 1: I will vent my wrath on my foes, and avenge
- 46:29Speaker 1: myself on my enemies. I will turn my hand against you.
- 46:34Speaker 1: I will thoroughly purge away your draws and remove all
- 46:38Speaker 1: your impurities. I will restore your leaders as in days
- 46:43Speaker 1: of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you'll
- 46:48Speaker 1: be called the city of Righteousness, the faithful City Zion
- 46:53Speaker 1: will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness,
- 46:59Speaker 1: but rebels and will both be broken, and those who
- 47:02Speaker 1: forsake the Lord will perish. You will be ashamed because
- 47:06Speaker 1: of the sacred oaks in which you delighted. You will
- 47:10Speaker 1: be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen
- 47:14Speaker 1: you will be like an oak with fading leaves, like
- 47:16Speaker 1: a garden without water. The mighty man will become tender,
- 47:21Speaker 1: and his work a spark. Both will burn together, with
- 47:25Speaker 1: no one to quench the fire. Isaiah too, This is
- 47:29Speaker 1: what Isaiah's son of a Mas saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
- 47:34Speaker 1: In the last days, the mountain of the Lord's temple
- 47:38Speaker 1: will be established as the highest of the mountains. It
- 47:41Speaker 1: will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will
- 47:44Speaker 1: stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, come,
- 47:49Speaker 1: let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
- 47:52Speaker 1: to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will
- 47:54Speaker 1: teach us his ways, so that we may walk in
- 47:57Speaker 1: his paths. The law will go on from Zion, the
- 48:01Speaker 1: word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will judge between
- 48:05Speaker 1: the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They
- 48:09Speaker 1: will beat their sword into plowshares and their spears into
- 48:13Speaker 1: pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation,
- 48:18Speaker 1: nor will they train for war anymore. Come, descendants of Jacob,
- 48:23Speaker 1: let us walk in the light of the Lord. You Lord,
- 48:27Speaker 1: have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are
- 48:31Speaker 1: full of superstitions from the east. They practice divination like
- 48:35Speaker 1: the Philistians and embrace pagan customs. Their land is full
- 48:40Speaker 1: of silver and gold. There is no end to their treasures.
- 48:45Speaker 1: Their land is full of horses, There is no end
- 48:48Speaker 1: to their chariots. Their land is full of idols. They
- 48:52Speaker 1: bowed down to the work of their hands, to what
- 48:55Speaker 1: their fingers are made. So people will be brought low
- 48:59Speaker 1: and everyone humbled. Do not forgive them. Go into the rocks,
- 49:05Speaker 1: hide in the ground, from the fearful presence of the
- 49:08Speaker 1: Lord and the splendor of his majesty. The eyes of
- 49:12Speaker 1: the arrogant will be humbled, and human pride brought low.
- 49:16Speaker 1: The Lord alone will be exalted in that day. The
- 49:19Speaker 1: Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the
- 49:22Speaker 1: proud and lofty, for all that is exalted, and they
- 49:26Speaker 1: will be humbled. For all the cedars of Lebanon, tall
- 49:31Speaker 1: and lofty, and all the oaks of Basi, for all
- 49:35Speaker 1: the towering mountains and all the high hills, for every
- 49:39Speaker 1: lofty tower and every fortified wall, for every trading ship
- 49:45Speaker 1: and every stately vessel. The arrogance of man will be
- 49:49Speaker 1: brought low, and human pride humbled. The Lord alone will
- 49:54Speaker 1: be exalted in that day, and the idols will totally disappear.
- 49:58Speaker 1: People will flee to cas and the rocks and the
- 50:01Speaker 1: holes in the ground from the fearful presence of the
- 50:05Speaker 1: Lord and the splendor of his majesty. When he rises
- 50:09Speaker 1: to shake the earth in that day, people will throw
- 50:13Speaker 1: away to the moles and bats. They're idols of silver
- 50:17Speaker 1: and idols of gold, which they made to worship. They
- 50:21Speaker 1: will flee the caverns, in the rocks and to the
- 50:24Speaker 1: overhanging crags from the fearful presence of the Lord and
- 50:29Speaker 1: the splendor of his majesty when he rises to shake
- 50:32Speaker 1: the earth. Stop trusting in mere humans who have put
- 50:36Speaker 1: a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?
- 50:40Speaker 1: Isaiah three. See now the Lord, the Lord Almighty, is
- 50:47Speaker 1: about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support,
- 50:52Speaker 1: all supplies of food and all supplies of water. The
- 50:56Speaker 1: hero and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the
- 51:00Speaker 1: diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the
- 51:04Speaker 1: man of rank, the counselor, skilled craftsmen and clever enchanter.
- 51:09Speaker 1: I will make mere use their officials. Children will rule
- 51:14Speaker 1: over them. People will oppress each other, man against man,
- 51:18Speaker 1: neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise up against the old,
- 51:23Speaker 1: the nobody against the honored. A man will seize one
- 51:26Speaker 1: of his brothers in his father's house and say, you
- 51:30Speaker 1: have a cloak. You be our leader, take charge of
- 51:34Speaker 1: the sep of ruins. But in that day he will
- 51:37Speaker 1: cry out, I have no remedy, I have no food
- 51:42Speaker 1: or clothing in my house. Do not make me the
- 51:45Speaker 1: leader of the people. Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling. Their
- 51:50Speaker 1: words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
- 51:56Speaker 1: The look on their faces testifies against them. They parade
- 52:00Speaker 1: their sin like sodom. They do not hide it. Woe
- 52:04Speaker 1: to them. They have brought disaster upon themselves. Tell the righteous,
- 52:09Speaker 1: it will be well with them, for they will enjoy
- 52:12Speaker 1: the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked disasters
- 52:17Speaker 1: upon them. They will be paid back for what their
- 52:20Speaker 1: hands have done. You'ds oppress my people. Women rule over
- 52:24Speaker 1: them my people. Your guides lead you astray. They turn
- 52:29Speaker 1: you from the path. The Lord takes his place in court.
- 52:32Speaker 1: He rises to judge the people. The Lord enters into
- 52:36Speaker 1: judgment against the elders and leaders of his people. It
- 52:40Speaker 1: is you who have ruined my vineyard. The plunder from
- 52:43Speaker 1: the poor is in your houses. What do you mean
- 52:47Speaker 1: by crushing my people, in grinding the faces of poor,
- 52:51Speaker 1: declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty. The Lord says, the
- 52:55Speaker 1: women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks,
- 53:00Speaker 1: flirting with their eyes, strutting along with swaying hips, with
- 53:05Speaker 1: ornaments jingling on their ankles. Therefore, the Lord will bring
- 53:10Speaker 1: swords on the heads of the women of Zion. The
- 53:13Speaker 1: Lord will make their scalps bald. In that day, the
- 53:17Speaker 1: Lord will snatch away their finery, the bangles and headbands
- 53:21Speaker 1: and crescent necklaces, the ear rings and bracelets and veils,
- 53:26Speaker 1: the head dresses and anklets and sashes, the perfume bottles
- 53:30Speaker 1: and charms, the signet rings and nose rings, the fine
- 53:35Speaker 1: roads and the capes and cloaks, the purses and mirrors,
- 53:40Speaker 1: and the linen garments and tai eras and shawls. Instead
- 53:44Speaker 1: of fragrance, there will be a stench instead of a sash,
- 53:49Speaker 1: a rope instead of well dressed hair, baldness instead of
- 53:53Speaker 1: fying clothing, sackcloth instead of beauty, branding. Your men will
- 53:59Speaker 1: fall by the sword Lord, your warriors in battle. The
- 54:02Speaker 1: gates of Zion will lament and mourn destitute. She will
- 54:07Speaker 1: sit on the ground Isaiah, for in that day seven
- 54:12Speaker 1: women will take hold of one man and say, we
- 54:15Speaker 1: will eat our own food and provide our own clothes. Only,
- 54:19Speaker 1: let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace.
- 54:23Speaker 1: In that day the brand of the Lord will be
- 54:26Speaker 1: beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will
- 54:29Speaker 1: be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
- 54:33Speaker 1: Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem
- 54:37Speaker 1: will be called holy, all who are recorded among the
- 54:40Speaker 1: living in Jerusalem. The Lord will wash away the filth
- 54:44Speaker 1: of the women of Zion. He will cleanse the blood
- 54:46Speaker 1: stains from Jerusalem. Buy a spirit of judgment and a
- 54:50Speaker 1: spirit of fire. Then the Lord will create over all
- 54:54Speaker 1: of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there, a
- 54:58Speaker 1: cloud of smoke by day, and a glow of flaming
- 55:01Speaker 1: fire by night. Over everything. The glory will be a canopy.
- 55:06Speaker 1: It will be a shelter and shade from the heat
- 55:09Speaker 1: of the day, and a refuge in hiding place from
- 55:12Speaker 1: the storm and rain. Isaiah five. I will sing for
- 55:16Speaker 1: the one I love a song about his vineyard. My
- 55:19Speaker 1: loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He
- 55:22Speaker 1: dug it up and cleared of stones, and planted it
- 55:25Speaker 1: with the choicest vines. He built a watch tower in
- 55:28Speaker 1: it and cut out a wine press as well. Then
- 55:31Speaker 1: he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it
- 55:34Speaker 1: yielded only bad fruit. Now, you dwellers in Jerusalem and
- 55:38Speaker 1: people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What
- 55:43Speaker 1: more could have been done for my vineyard than I
- 55:45Speaker 1: have done for it? When I look for good grapes,
- 55:49Speaker 1: why did it yield only bad? Now I will tell
- 55:52Speaker 1: you what I am going to do to my vineyard.
- 55:54Speaker 1: I will take away its hedge and it will be destroyed.
- 55:58Speaker 1: I will break down its wall and it will be trampled.
- 56:01Speaker 1: I will make it a wasteland, neither prune nor cultivated,
- 56:06Speaker 1: and briars and thorns will grow there. I will command
- 56:09Speaker 1: the clouds not to rain on it. The vineyard of
- 56:12Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the
- 56:16Speaker 1: people of Judah are the vines He delighted in, and
- 56:19Speaker 1: he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed for righteousness, but
- 56:25Speaker 1: heard cries of distress. Woe to you who add house
- 56:29Speaker 1: to house and join field of field till no space
- 56:32Speaker 1: is left, and you live alone in the land. The
- 56:35Speaker 1: Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing. Surely the great
- 56:39Speaker 1: houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.
- 56:44Speaker 1: A ten acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine,
- 56:48Speaker 1: a homer of sea will yield only an ethel of grain.
- 56:52Speaker 1: Woe to those who rise early in the morning to
- 56:54Speaker 1: run after their drinks, who stay up late at night
- 56:58Speaker 1: till they are inflamed with wine. They have harps and
- 57:01Speaker 1: liars at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but
- 57:06Speaker 1: they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord,
- 57:09Speaker 1: no respect for the work of his hands. Therefore my
- 57:13Speaker 1: people go into exile for lack of understanding. Those of
- 57:17Speaker 1: high rank will die of hunger, and the common people
- 57:20Speaker 1: will be parched with thirst. Therefore death expands its jaws,
- 57:26Speaker 1: opening wide its mouth into will descend their nobles and masses,
- 57:31Speaker 1: with all their brawlers and revelers. So people will be
- 57:35Speaker 1: brought low and everyone humbled. The eyes of the arrogant humbled,
- 57:40Speaker 1: But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice,
- 57:44Speaker 1: and the Holy God will be proved holy by his
- 57:47Speaker 1: righteous acts. Then sheep will graves as in their own pasture.
- 57:52Speaker 1: Lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich. Woe
- 57:55Speaker 1: to those who draw us and along with cords of
- 57:58Speaker 1: deceit and wickedness, as with cart ropes. To those who say,
- 58:03Speaker 1: let God hurry, Let him hasten his work so we
- 58:07Speaker 1: may see it the plan of the Holy One of Israel.
- 58:10Speaker 1: Let it approach, let it come into view, so we
- 58:13Speaker 1: may know it. Woe to those who call evil good
- 58:17Speaker 1: and good evil, who put darkness for light and light
- 58:21Speaker 1: for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
- 58:26Speaker 1: Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
- 58:29Speaker 1: and clever in their own sight. Woe to those who
- 58:32Speaker 1: are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,
- 58:38Speaker 1: who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice
- 58:42Speaker 1: to the innocent. Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw,
- 58:47Speaker 1: and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so
- 58:50Speaker 1: their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust.
- 58:55Speaker 1: For they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty,
- 58:58Speaker 1: and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- 59:01Speaker 1: Therefore the Lord's anger burns against his people. His hand
- 59:05Speaker 1: is raised and he strikes them down. The mountain shake,
- 59:10Speaker 1: and the dead bodies like refuse in the streets. Yet
- 59:14Speaker 1: for all this his anger is not turned away. His
- 59:18Speaker 1: hand is still upraised. He lifts up a banner for
- 59:22Speaker 1: the distant nations. He whistles for those at the ends
- 59:25Speaker 1: of the earth. Here they come swiftly and speedily. Not
- 59:30Speaker 1: one of them grows tired or stumbles. Not one slumbers
- 59:34Speaker 1: or sleeps. Not a belt is loosened at the waist,
- 59:38Speaker 1: not a sandal strap is broken. Their arrows are sharp,
- 59:43Speaker 1: all their bows are strung. Their horses hooves seem like flint.
- 59:47Speaker 1: Their chariot wheels like a whirlwind. Their roar is like
- 59:51Speaker 1: that of a lion. They roar like young lions. They
- 59:55Speaker 1: growl as they seize their prey and carry it off,
- 59:58Speaker 1: with no one to rescue. In that day they will
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: if one looks at the land, there's only darkness and distress.
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: Even the sun will be darkened by clouds. Isaiah six.
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: In the year that king Aziah died. I saw the
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: Lord High and Exalted, seated on a throne, and the
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim,
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: each with six wings. With two wings, they covered their faces,
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: with two they covered their feet, and with two they
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: were flying, and they were calling to one another. Holy, Holy, Holy,
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: is the Lord Almighty. The whole earth is full of
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: his glory. At the sound of their voices, the door
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: posts and threshold shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: Woe to me, I cried, I am ruined, for I
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: am a man of unclean lips, and I live among
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: the people of unclean lips. And my eyes have seen
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: the King, the Lord Almighty. Then one of the seraphim
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: flew to me with a live coal in his hand,
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: that he touched my mouth and said, see this has
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: touched your lips. Your guilt is taken away, and your
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: sin atone For then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: whom shall I send and who will go for us?
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: And I said, here am I send me? He said,
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: go and tell the people be ever hearing but never understanding,
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: be ever seeing, but never perceiving. Make the heart of
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: this people calloused, Make their ears dull and close their eyes,
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears,
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed. Then
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: I said, for how long? Lord? And he answered, Until
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: are left deserted, and the fields ruined and ravaged, until
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: the Lord has sent everyone far away, and the land
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: is utterly forsaken, And though a tenth remains in the land,
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: it will again be laid waste, but as a terrabent
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: and oak leaves stumps when they are cut down. So
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: the Holy seed will be the stump in the land.
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: Isaiah seven, when it had son of Jotham, the son
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: of Isaiah, was king of Judah, king resident of Aram,
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: and Peca's son of Rhemaliah, king of Israel, marched up
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: Now the House of Davy was told Aram has allied
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: itself with Ephrium, so the hearts of it has And
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: as people were shaken, as the trees of the forest
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: are shaken by the wind, Then the Lord said to Isaiah,
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: go out, you and your son Sheer Joshua, to meet
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: I Has at the end of the aqueduct of the
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: Upper Pool, on the road to the Launders field. Say
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: to him, be careful, keep calm, and don't be afraid.
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: of firewood, because of the fierce anger of Resin and Arim,
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: and of the son of Riemalayah Aram Ephriam and Remaliah's
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: son have plotted your ruin, saying, let's invade Judah. Let
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: make the son of Tabill king over it. Yet this
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: is what the sovereign Lord says Isaiah seven. It will
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: not take place. It will not happen, for the head
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: only Resin. Within sixty five years, Ephriam will be too
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: shattered to be a people. The head of Ephrium is
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: some Maria, and the head of some Maria is only
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: Remaliah's son. If you do not stand firm in your faith,
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: you will not stand at all Again. The Lord spoke
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: to a has asked the Lord your God for a sign,
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: But it has said, I will not ask, I will
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: not put the Lord to the test. Then Isaiah said,
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: here now, your house of David. Is it not enough
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: to try the patients of humans? Will you try the
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: patience my God? Also? Therefore the Lord himself will give
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: you a sign. The Virgin will conceive and give birth
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: to a son, and will call him Emmanuel. He will
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: be eating kurds and honey when he knows enough to
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: reject the wrong and choose the right. For before the
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: the land of the two kings you dread will be
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: laid waste. The Lord will bring on you and on
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: your people, and on the house of your father, a
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: time unlike any since Ephriam broke away from Judah. He
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: will bring the king of Assyria. In that day, the
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: Lord will whistle for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt,
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: and for bees from the land of Assyria. They will
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: all come and settle in the steep ravines and in
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: the crevices, in the rocks, on all the thorn bushes,
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: and at all the water holes in that day, the
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: River the king of Assyria, to shave your head in
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: private parts, and to cut off your beard. Also in
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: that day a person will keep alive a young cow
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: and two goats, And because of the abundance of the
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: who remain in the land will eat curds and honey
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: in that day. In every place where there were a
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: thousand vines where the thousand silver shekels, there will be
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: only briars and thorns. Hunters will go there with bow
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: and arrow, for the lamb will be covered with briars
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: and thorns. As for all the hills, once cultivated by
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: of the briars and thorns. They will become places where
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: cattle are turned loose, and where sheep run. Isaiah Ate,
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: the Lord said to me, take a large scroll and
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: write on it with an ordinary pen. Marshal arw hashbaz
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: So I called in Uriah the priest and Zechariah's son
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: of Jeborikiah as reliable witnesses for me. Then I made
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: love to prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to
- 1:06:50Speaker 1: a son. And the Lord said to me, name him
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: Marshal arw Hashbaths. For before the boy knows how to
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: say my father or my mother, the wealth of Damascus
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: and the plunder of so Maria will be carried off
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: by the King of Assyria. The Lord spoke to me again,
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: because this people is rejected the gently flowing waters of
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: Shiloah and rejoices over Resin and the son of Reemlaya. Therefore,
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: floodwaters of the euphrates the King of Assyria with all
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: all its banks, and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: passing through it, and reaching up to the neck. Its
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land, Oh Emmanuel,
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: raise the war. Cry you nations, and be shattered. Listen,
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: all you distant lands. Prepare for battle and be shattered.
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: Prepare for battle and be shattered. Devise your strategy, but
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: it will be afforded. Propose your plan, but it will
- 1:08:03Speaker 1: not stand, for God is with us. This is what
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: the Lord says to me with a strong hand upon me,
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: warning me not to follow the way of this people.
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: Do not call conspiracy. Everything this people calls conspiracy. Do
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: as holy. He is the one you are to fear.
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: He is the one you are to dread. He will
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: be a holy place for both Israel and Judah. He
- 1:08:35Speaker 1: will be a stone that causes people to stumble and
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: a rock that makes him fall. And for all the
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: people of Jerusalem Isaiah eight, verses fourteen to twenty two,
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: he will be a trap and a snare for the
- 1:08:50Speaker 1: people of Jerusalem. Many of them will stumble, they will
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: fall and be broken. They will be snared and captured.
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: Bind this testimony of warning and seal up God's instruction
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: among my disciples. I will wait for the Lord who
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: will put my trust in him. Here am I and
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: the children the Lord has given me. We are signs
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: on Mount Zion. When someone tells you to consult mediums
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: and spiritus who whisper and mutter. Should not of people
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: inquire their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: the living. Consult God's instruction and the testimony of warning.
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: If anyone does not speak according to this word, they
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: have no light of gone distressed and hungry, they will
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: roam through the land. When they are famished, they will
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: become enraged, and looking upward, will curse their king and
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: their God. Then they will look toward the earth and
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: see only distress in darkness and fearful gloom, and they
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: will be thrust into utter darkness Isaiah nine, verses one
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: to twenty one. Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: for those who are in distress. In the past he
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: humbled the land of Zebulin and the land of Naftali.
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: But in the future he will honor galilee of the nations.
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: By the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, the
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: people walking in darkness have seen a great light on
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: those living in a land of deep darkness. A light
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: has dawned. You have enlarged a nation and increased their joy.
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: They rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest,
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: as warriors rejoice when divided in the plunder. For as
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: in the day of Midians defeat. You have shattered the
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the
- 1:10:57Speaker 1: rod of their oppressor. Every warrior's boots use in battle,
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning,
- 1:11:06Speaker 1: will be fuel for the fire. For to us a
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: child is born, to us, a son is given, And
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: the government will be on his shoulders, and he will
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: be called Wonderful counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace,
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: of the greatness of his government and peace. There will
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: be no end. He will reign on David's throne and
- 1:11:31Speaker 1: over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness.
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: From that time on and forever. The zeal of the
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: Lord Almighty will accomplish this. The Lord has sent a
- 1:11:44Speaker 1: message against Jacob. It will fall on Israel. All the
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: people will know it. Ephraim and the inhabitants of Somara,
- 1:11:53Speaker 1: who say, with pride and arrogance of heart, the bricks
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: have fallen down, but we will rebuild with rest stone.
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: The fig trees have been filled, but we will replace
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: them with cedars. But the Lord has strengthened resins foes
- 1:12:08Speaker 1: against them, and has spurred their enemies on Era. Means
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: from the east, and Philistins from the west have devoured
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, his anger
- 1:12:21Speaker 1: is not turned away. His hand is still upraised. But
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: the people have not returned to him who struck them
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: their have they sought the Lord Almighty. So the Lord
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm,
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: branch and read in a single day. The elders and
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: dignitaries are ahead, the prophets who teach lies or the tail.
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: Those who guide as people mislead them, and those who
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: are guided are led astray. Therefore the Lord will take
- 1:12:52Speaker 1: no pleasure in the young men. No will be pity
- 1:12:55Speaker 1: the fatherless and widows. For everyone is on God and wicked.
- 1:13:01Speaker 1: Every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger
- 1:13:05Speaker 1: is not turned away. His hand is still upraised. Surely,
- 1:13:10Speaker 1: wickedness burns like a fire. It consumes briars and thorns,
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: it says, the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: upward in a column of smoke. By the wrath of
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty, the lamb will be scorched, and the
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: people will be fuel for the fire. They will not
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: spare one another. On the right, they will devour, but
- 1:13:33Speaker 1: still be hungry. On the left, they will eat, but
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: not be satisfied. Each will feed on the flesh of
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: their own offspring. Manassa will feed on Ephriam, and Ephrium
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: on Manassa. Together they will turn against Judah. Yet for
- 1:13:49Speaker 1: all this, his anger is not turned away. His hand
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: is still upraised Isaiah ten verses one to six. One
- 1:13:58Speaker 1: to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights, and
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: with whold justice for the oppressed of my people, making
- 1:14:10Speaker 1: widows their prey, and robbing the faultless. What will you
- 1:14:15Speaker 1: do on the day of reckoning? When disaster comes from Afar?
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: To whom will you run for help? Where will you
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: leave your riches? Nothing will remain but to cringe among
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: the captives, or fall among the slain. Yet for all this,
- 1:14:30Speaker 1: his anger is not turned away. His hand is still appraised.
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in
- 1:14:39Speaker 1: whose hand is the club of my wrath. I send
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: him against a godless nation. I despatch him against the
- 1:14:46Speaker 1: people who Isaiah ten verses seven to thirty four. But
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: this is not what he intends. This is not what
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: he has in mind. His purpose is to destroy, to
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: put an end to many nations. Are not my commanders.
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: All kings, he says, has not called no fair like Carchemish,
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: is not Hammeth like Arpid and Samria like Damascus. As
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: my hand sees the kingdoms of the Idols, kingdoms whose
- 1:15:16Speaker 1: images exceled those at Jerusalem and some Maria, shall I
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: with Sa Maria and her Idols. When the Lord has
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: will say, I will punish the king of Assyria for
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: the wilful pride of his heart and the haughty look
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: in his eyes. For he says, by the strength of
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: my hand, I have done this, and by my wisdom,
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: because I have understanding, I remove the boundaries of nations.
- 1:15:52Speaker 1: I plundered their treasures like a mighty one. I subdued
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: their kings. As one reaches into a nest, So my
- 1:16:00Speaker 1: hand reached for the wealth of the nations. As people
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: gather abandoned eggs, So I gathered all the countries. Not
- 1:16:08Speaker 1: one flapped a wing or open his mouth to chirp.
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: Does the axe raise itself above the one who swings it,
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: or the saw boasts against the one who uses it,
- 1:16:18Speaker 1: as if a rod were to wield a person who
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: lifts it up, or a club brandished the one who
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: is not wood. Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: send a wasting disease upon his sturdy warriors. Under his
- 1:16:33Speaker 1: pompifier will be kindled like a blazing flame. The light
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: of Israel will become a fire there wholly won a flame.
- 1:16:41Speaker 1: In a single day. It will burn and consume his
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: thorns and his briers, the splendor of his forests and
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: fertile fields. It will completely destroy, as when a sick
- 1:16:53Speaker 1: person wastes away, and the remaining trees of his forest
- 1:16:57Speaker 1: will be so few that a child could write them down.
- 1:17:01Speaker 1: In that day, the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob,
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: will no longer rely on him who struck him down,
- 1:17:09Speaker 1: but will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One
- 1:17:13Speaker 1: of Israel. A remnant will return, A remnant of Jacob
- 1:17:17Speaker 1: will return to the Mighty God. Though your people be
- 1:17:20Speaker 1: like the sand by the sea, Israel, only a remnant
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous. The Lord,
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty will carry out the destruction decreed upon
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: the whole land. Therefore, this is what the Lord, the
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: Lord Almighty says, My people who live in Zion, do
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: not be afraid of the Assyrians who beat you with
- 1:17:47Speaker 1: a rod and lift up a club against you, as
- 1:17:50Speaker 1: Egypt did. Very soon, my anger against you will end,
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: and my wrath will be directed to their destruction. The
- 1:17:58Speaker 1: Lord Almighty will with a whip as when he struck
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: down Midian at the Rock of Aurub, and he will
- 1:18:05Speaker 1: raise the staff over the waters, as he did in Egypt.
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: In that day. Their burden will be lifted from your shoulders,
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: their yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: because you have grown so fat. They enter Ayath, They
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: pass through Migron, They store supplies at Micmash. They go
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: over the past and say we will camp overnight at
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: Gaba Rama trembles Gab of salt fleas. Cry out, Daughter Gallim,
- 1:18:37Speaker 1: listen Leah poor anathof Madmana is in flight. The people
- 1:18:43Speaker 1: of Jebim take cover this day. They will halt at Knob.
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: They will shake their fists at the mount of Daughter Zion,
- 1:18:51Speaker 1: at the hill of Jerusalem see the Lord. The Lord
- 1:18:55Speaker 1: Almighty will lop off the boughs with great power. The
- 1:18:59Speaker 1: lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones brought low.
- 1:19:03Speaker 1: He will cut down the forest thickets with an axe.
- 1:19:07Speaker 1: Lebanon will fall before the Mighty one Isaiah eleven, verses
- 1:19:11Speaker 1: one to ten. A shoot will come up from the
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: stump of Jesse. From his roots, a branch will bear fruit.
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: The spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: and of might, the spirit of a knowledge and fear
- 1:19:30Speaker 1: the Lord. And he will delight in the fear of
- 1:19:33Speaker 1: the Lord. He will not judge by what he sees
- 1:19:36Speaker 1: with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with
- 1:19:39Speaker 1: his ears. But with righteousness. He will judge the needy
- 1:19:43Speaker 1: with justice. He will give decisions to the poor of
- 1:19:46Speaker 1: the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod
- 1:19:49Speaker 1: of his mouth, with the breath of his lips, he
- 1:19:51Speaker 1: will slay the wicked. Righteousness will be his belt, and
- 1:19:56Speaker 1: faithfulness to sash around his waist. The wolf will with
- 1:20:00Speaker 1: the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat.
- 1:20:03Speaker 1: The calf and the lion and the yearling together and
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: a little child will lead them. The cow will feed
- 1:20:10Speaker 1: with the bear, Their young will lie down together, and
- 1:20:14Speaker 1: the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant
- 1:20:17Speaker 1: will play near the cobra's den, and the young child
- 1:20:21Speaker 1: will put its hand into the viper's nest. They will
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, For
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord,
- 1:20:32Speaker 1: as the waters cover the sea. In that day, the
- 1:20:35Speaker 1: root of Jesse will stand as a banner for people's
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: The nations will rally to him, and his resting place
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: will be glorious. Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
- 1:20:48Speaker 1: all you who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all
- 1:20:53Speaker 1: you who mourn over her, For you will nurse and
- 1:20:56Speaker 1: be satisfied at her comforting breasts. You will drink deeply
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: and delight in her overflowing abundance. For this is what
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: the Lord says. I will extend peace to her like
- 1:21:09Speaker 1: a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream.
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: You will nurse and be carried on her arm and
- 1:21:17Speaker 1: dandled on her knees. As a mother comforts her child,
- 1:21:22Speaker 1: so will I comfort you, and you will be comforted
- 1:21:25Speaker 1: over Jerusalem. When you see this, your heart will rejoice,
- 1:21:31Speaker 1: and you will flourish like grass. The hand of the
- 1:21:35Speaker 1: Lord will be made known to his servants, but his
- 1:21:38Speaker 1: fury will be shown to his foes. See the Lord
- 1:21:42Speaker 1: is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind.
- 1:21:47Speaker 1: He will bring down his anger with fury, and his
- 1:21:50Speaker 1: rebuke with flames of fire. For with fire and with
- 1:21:54Speaker 1: his sword, the Lord will execute judgment on all people.
- 1:21:59Speaker 1: And many will be those slain by the Lord. Those
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: following one who is among those who eat the flesh
- 1:22:13Speaker 1: of pigs, rats, and other unclean things. They will meet
- 1:22:17Speaker 1: their end together with the one they follow, declares the Lord.
- 1:22:24Speaker 1: And I, because of what they have planned and done,
- 1:22:28Speaker 1: am about to come and gather the people of all
- 1:22:31Speaker 1: nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.
- 1:22:36Speaker 1: I will set a sign among them, and I will
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: send some of those who survived the nations to Tarsish,
- 1:22:44Speaker 1: to the Libyans and Lydians famous as archers, to cubil
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not
- 1:22:54Speaker 1: heard of my fame or see my glory. They will
- 1:22:57Speaker 1: proclaim my glory among the nations. And they will bring
- 1:23:02Speaker 1: all your people from all the nations to my holy
- 1:23:06Speaker 1: mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord, on
- 1:23:11Speaker 1: horses and chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: says the Lord. They will bring them as the Israelites
- 1:23:21Speaker 1: bring their grain offerings to the Temple of the Lord,
- 1:23:24Speaker 1: in ceremonially clean vessels. And I will selection some them
- 1:23:29Speaker 1: also to be priests and levites, says the Lord. As
- 1:23:34Speaker 1: the new heavens and the new Earth that I make
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: will endure before me, declares the Lord. So will your
- 1:23:42Speaker 1: name and descendants endure from one new moon to another,
- 1:23:47Speaker 1: and from one sabbath to another. All mankind will come
- 1:23:52Speaker 1: about down before me, says the Lord. And they will
- 1:23:57Speaker 1: go out and look on the dead bodies of those
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: who rebelled against me. The worms that eat them will
- 1:24:04Speaker 1: not die. The fire that burns them will not be quenched,
- 1:24:08Speaker 1: and they will be loathsome to all mankind.