Today is the sixth day of November. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today. A brand new week is out in front of us.

We will march into it together as this journey continues day by day step by step. Our journey currently has us sailing through the book of Ezekiel, which is what we will continue to do.

This week we will read from the New English translation, a net Bible.

And picking up where we left off yesterday, Ezekiel, chapter 14 verse 12, through 16 verse 41.

The Lord's message came to me. Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it. They would save only their own lives by their righteousness to clear the sovereign Lord.

Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate without travelers due to the wild animals.

Even if these three men were in it, assuredly as I lived, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They would save only their own lives and the land would become desolate.

Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, let a sword pass through the land, and I were to kill both people and animals.

Even if these three men were in it, assuredly as I lived, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They would save only their own lives.

Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, assuredly as I lived, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own son or daughter. They would save only their own lives by their righteousness.

For this is what the sovereign Lord says, how much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments? Sword, famine, wild animals, and plague to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals.

Yet some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you and when you see their behavior and their deeds, you will be consoled about the catastrophe I have brought on Jerusalem. For everything I brought on it, they will console you when you see their behavior and their deeds, because you will know that it was not without reason that I have done everything that I have done in it.

In it declares the sovereign Lord. The Lord's message came to me, son of man, of all the woody branches among the trees of the forest, what happens to the wood of the vine?

Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on? No, it is thrown in the fire for fuel.

When the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything? Indeed, if it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred?

Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says. Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest that I have provided as fuel for the fire.

So I will provide the residents of Jerusalem as fuel. I will set my face against them. Although they have escaped from the fire, the fire will still consume them.

Then you will know that I am the Lord. When I set my face against them, I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully to declares the sovereign Lord.

The Lord's message came to me, son of man, confront Jerusalem with her abominable practices and say,

This is what the sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem. Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an ammarite and your mother a hitite.

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