1 00:00:02,700 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:13,300 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at BibleStudyHeadquarters.com. You're listening 3 00:00:13,340 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm John Stonge, 4 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:21,790 Speaker 1: and today we're in Isaiah chapter 34, and we'll be 5 00:00:21,829 --> 00:00:27,690 Speaker 1: reading from the Christian Standard Bible. You nations, come here 6 00:00:27,850 --> 00:00:32,310 Speaker 1: and listen. You peoples, pay attention. Let the earth and 7 00:00:32,470 --> 00:00:35,790 Speaker 1: all that fills it hear, the world and all that 8 00:00:35,850 --> 00:00:39,810 Speaker 1: comes from it. The Lord is angry with all the nations, 9 00:00:40,190 --> 00:00:44,030 Speaker 1: furious with all their armies. He will set them apart 10 00:00:44,090 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: for destruction, giving them over to slaughter. Their slain will 11 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise. 12 00:00:53,060 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: The mountains will flow with their blood. All the stars 13 00:00:56,940 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: in the sky will dissolve. The sky will roll up 14 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: like a scroll, and its stars will all wither, as 15 00:01:04,780 --> 00:01:08,580 Speaker 1: leaves wither on the vine, and foliage on the fig tree. 16 00:01:10,020 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, 17 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,339 Speaker 1: it will then come down on Edom, and on the 18 00:01:16,390 --> 00:01:20,770 Speaker 1: people I have set apart for destruction. The Lord's sword 19 00:01:20,930 --> 00:01:24,709 Speaker 1: is covered with blood. It drips with fat, with the 20 00:01:24,770 --> 00:01:27,830 Speaker 1: blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the 21 00:01:27,990 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Basra, 22 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:37,569 Speaker 1: a great slaughter in the land of Edom. The wild 23 00:01:37,810 --> 00:01:41,470 Speaker 1: oxen will be struck down with them, and young bulls 24 00:01:41,630 --> 00:01:45,709 Speaker 1: with the mighty bulls. Their land will be soaked with blood, 25 00:01:45,870 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: and their soil will be saturated with fat. For the 26 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,060 Speaker 1: Lord has a day of vengeance, a time of paying 27 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:58,750 Speaker 1: back Edom for its hostility against Zion. Edom's streams will 28 00:01:58,770 --> 00:02:02,830 Speaker 1: be turned into pitch, her soil into sulfur, her land 29 00:02:02,870 --> 00:02:06,650 Speaker 1: will become burning pitch. It will never go out day 30 00:02:06,750 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: or night. Its smoke will go up forever. It will 31 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: be desolate from generation to generation. No one will pass 32 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: through it forever and ever. Eagle owls and herons will 33 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,769 Speaker 1: possess it, and long-eared owls and ravens will dwell there. 34 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: The Lord will stretch out a measuring line and a 35 00:02:27,180 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: plumb line over her for her destruction and chaos. No 36 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:35,500 Speaker 1: nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all 37 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,829 Speaker 1: her princes will come to nothing. Her palaces will be 38 00:02:40,030 --> 00:02:44,970 Speaker 1: overgrown with thorns, her fortified cities with thistles and briars. 39 00:02:45,710 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: She will become a dwelling for jackals, an abode for ostriches. 40 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: The desert creatures will meet hyenas. and one wild goat 41 00:02:54,820 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: will call to another. Indeed, the night birds will stay 42 00:02:58,620 --> 00:03:02,990 Speaker 1: there and will find a resting place. Sand partridges will 43 00:03:03,030 --> 00:03:06,490 Speaker 1: make their nests there. They will lay and hatch their eggs, 44 00:03:07,290 --> 00:03:11,330 Speaker 1: and will gather their broods under their shadows. Indeed, the 45 00:03:11,370 --> 00:03:14,679 Speaker 1: birds of prey will gather there, each with its mate. 46 00:03:15,910 --> 00:03:19,540 Speaker 1: Search and read the scroll of the Lord. Not one 47 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,020 Speaker 1: of them will be missing. None will be lacking its mate. 48 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,519 Speaker 1: because he has ordered it by my mouth, and he 49 00:03:26,540 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: will gather them by his Spirit. He has cast the 50 00:03:31,220 --> 00:03:34,870 Speaker 1: lot for them. His hand allotted their portion with a 51 00:03:34,970 --> 00:03:39,630 Speaker 1: measuring line. They will possess it forever. They will dwell 52 00:03:39,810 --> 00:03:47,790 Speaker 1: in it from generation to generation. Let's pray. Lord, we 53 00:03:47,830 --> 00:03:50,370 Speaker 1: thank you for your word, and we thank you for 54 00:03:50,670 --> 00:03:53,490 Speaker 1: the things that you reveal to us in it. Lord, 55 00:03:53,550 --> 00:03:56,130 Speaker 1: we recognize that there is a day coming when you 56 00:03:56,170 --> 00:03:59,529 Speaker 1: will judge the nations. You will judge this world. This 57 00:03:59,590 --> 00:04:04,250 Speaker 1: world will experience tribulation. And your hand of justice, which 58 00:04:04,330 --> 00:04:07,770 Speaker 1: we as human beings have mocked, will be shown to 59 00:04:07,810 --> 00:04:11,870 Speaker 1: be powerful and true. Lord, we recognize that we all 60 00:04:11,930 --> 00:04:16,690 Speaker 1: deserve judgment and condemnation from you. But we're also grateful, Lord, 61 00:04:16,730 --> 00:04:19,270 Speaker 1: for the fact that when we trust in your Son, 62 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,370 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, Our sin is forgiven. We are passed over 63 00:04:23,470 --> 00:04:27,250 Speaker 1: for judgment. We will no longer be condemned because Christ 64 00:04:27,290 --> 00:04:31,630 Speaker 1: took our condemnation upon himself. Lord, we know that not 65 00:04:31,690 --> 00:04:34,710 Speaker 1: everyone is going to accept your son, but we're grateful 66 00:04:34,770 --> 00:04:37,370 Speaker 1: for the privilege to have the opportunity to do so. 67 00:04:37,610 --> 00:04:39,550 Speaker 1: And we pray, Lord, that for those of us who 68 00:04:39,589 --> 00:04:42,310 Speaker 1: have done so, that you would comfort our hearts with 69 00:04:42,330 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: the realization that our sin is forgiven and that our 70 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:48,780 Speaker 1: future is filled with hope. We pray that by your 71 00:04:48,820 --> 00:04:51,260 Speaker 1: grace you would enable us to share the message of hope, 72 00:04:51,540 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: the message of your gospel, with as many people as 73 00:04:54,580 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: possible during the course of our earthly lives. We're grateful 74 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 1: for that privilege, Lord. We love you. We're thankful for 75 00:05:01,180 --> 00:05:06,250 Speaker 1: your love toward us. And we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.