1 00:00:02,730 --> 00:00:06,730 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,790 --> 00:00:13,460 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at BibleStudyHeadquarters.com. You're listening 3 00:00:13,490 --> 00:00:17,060 Speaker 1: to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm John Stonge 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:22,540 Speaker 1: and today we're in Isaiah chapter 33 and we'll be 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:28,830 Speaker 1: reading from the English Standard Version. Ah, you destroyer, who 6 00:00:28,870 --> 00:00:33,900 Speaker 1: yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed. 7 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 1: When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed, 8 00:00:38,659 --> 00:00:42,300 Speaker 1: and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you. 9 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: O Lord, be gracious to us, we wait for you. 10 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:52,220 Speaker 1: Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time 11 00:00:52,260 --> 00:00:57,540 Speaker 1: of trouble. At the tumultuous noise, peoples flee. When you 12 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: lift yourself up, nations are scattered, and your spoil is 13 00:01:02,100 --> 00:01:06,819 Speaker 1: gathered as the caterpillar gathers, as locusts leap, it is 14 00:01:06,900 --> 00:01:12,139 Speaker 1: leapt upon. The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high. 15 00:01:12,810 --> 00:01:17,110 Speaker 1: He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness, and He 16 00:01:17,150 --> 00:01:22,690 Speaker 1: will be the stability of your times. Abundance of salvation, wisdom, 17 00:01:23,010 --> 00:01:28,660 Speaker 1: and knowledge, the fear of the Lord is Zion's treasure. Behold, 18 00:01:29,220 --> 00:01:33,500 Speaker 1: their heroes cry in the streets. The envoys of peace 19 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:39,750 Speaker 1: weep bitterly. The highways lie waste. The traveler ceases. Covenants 20 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:45,729 Speaker 1: are broken. Cities are despised. There is no regard for man. 21 00:01:46,690 --> 00:01:51,870 Speaker 1: The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. 22 00:01:53,070 --> 00:01:57,150 Speaker 1: Sharon is like a desert. and Bashan and Carmel shake 23 00:01:57,270 --> 00:02:02,010 Speaker 1: off their leaves. Now I will arrive, says the Lord, 24 00:02:02,430 --> 00:02:07,410 Speaker 1: now I will lift myself up, now I will be exalted. 25 00:02:08,410 --> 00:02:13,050 Speaker 1: You conceive chaff, you give birth to stubble, your breath 26 00:02:13,130 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: is a fire that will consume you, and the peoples 27 00:02:16,620 --> 00:02:20,340 Speaker 1: will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut 28 00:02:20,419 --> 00:02:24,370 Speaker 1: down that are burned in the fire. Hear, you who 29 00:02:24,510 --> 00:02:28,070 Speaker 1: are far off, what I have done, and you who 30 00:02:28,169 --> 00:02:33,679 Speaker 1: are near, acknowledge my might. The sinners in Zion are afraid. 31 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: Trembling has seized the godless. Who among us can dwell 32 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with 33 00:02:42,650 --> 00:02:49,310 Speaker 1: everlasting burnings? He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who 34 00:02:49,370 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands lest 35 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,810 Speaker 1: they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing 36 00:02:57,970 --> 00:03:01,750 Speaker 1: of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil. 37 00:03:03,090 --> 00:03:06,950 Speaker 1: He will dwell on the heights. His place of defense 38 00:03:07,010 --> 00:03:11,109 Speaker 1: will be the fortresses of rocks. His bread will be 39 00:03:11,169 --> 00:03:15,740 Speaker 1: given him. His water will be sure. Your eyes will 40 00:03:15,780 --> 00:03:19,060 Speaker 1: behold the king in his beauty. They will see a 41 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,660 Speaker 1: land that stretches afar. Your heart will muse on the terror. 42 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed 43 00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers? You 44 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,220 Speaker 1: will see no more the insolent people, the people of 45 00:03:35,260 --> 00:03:39,550 Speaker 1: an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a 46 00:03:39,610 --> 00:03:44,730 Speaker 1: tongue that you cannot understand. Behold Zion, the city of 47 00:03:45,010 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem. an untroubled habitation, 48 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:56,030 Speaker 1: an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, 49 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:00,870 Speaker 1: nor will any of its cords be broken. But there 50 00:04:00,910 --> 00:04:03,870 Speaker 1: the Lord in majesty will be for us a place 51 00:04:03,950 --> 00:04:08,110 Speaker 1: of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars 52 00:04:08,220 --> 00:04:12,700 Speaker 1: can go, nor majestic ship can pass. For the Lord 53 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,780 Speaker 1: is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord 54 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: is our king, He will save us. Your cords hang loose. 55 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,740 Speaker 1: They cannot hold the mast firm in its place or 56 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,990 Speaker 1: keep the sails spread out. Then prey and spoil in 57 00:04:30,050 --> 00:04:34,230 Speaker 1: abundance will be divided. Even the lame will take the prey. 58 00:04:35,050 --> 00:04:38,590 Speaker 1: And no inhabitant will say, I am sick. The people 59 00:04:38,630 --> 00:04:46,850 Speaker 1: who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity. Let's pray. Lord, 60 00:04:46,890 --> 00:04:48,610 Speaker 1: we thank you for your word, and we thank you 61 00:04:48,630 --> 00:04:50,370 Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at a 62 00:04:50,430 --> 00:04:53,750 Speaker 1: portion of Scripture like this that speaks of the time 63 00:04:53,810 --> 00:04:57,020 Speaker 1: when your Son, Jesus Christ, will rule and reign on 64 00:04:57,060 --> 00:05:00,380 Speaker 1: this earth from Jerusalem. And we're grateful, Lord, for the 65 00:05:00,420 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: promises that you've given your people. We're grateful for the 66 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:05,540 Speaker 1: privilege that it is to be part of your kingdom. 67 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: And we're grateful, Lord, that you've given us, in the 68 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,780 Speaker 1: midst of all that we experience right now, this vision 69 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,300 Speaker 1: of the future to look forward to. So we're grateful 70 00:05:15,330 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: for this, Lord. We're grateful for your presence with us today. 71 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: We're grateful for the privilege to trust in your son, 72 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, right here and right now. And we pray, Lord, 73 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,900 Speaker 1: that you would facilitate that kind of faith within our hearts. 74 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,260 Speaker 1: We love you, Lord. We thank you for all of 75 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:34,700 Speaker 1: these things. And we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.