Today is the ninth day of September. Welcome to the daily audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today.

Excited that we can gather in out of all of the different circumstances that life throws at us on any given day. We can gather in a safe place.

In a little oasis that we create together around the global campfire every day to exhale. It is a safe place here.

God's Word is going to wash into our lives and we open our hearts to Him and His leadership as we move into our reading today.

We have just got ourselves into some new territory which is the Book of Isaiah and will be camping out in Isaiah for a bit here. It is one of the longer books in the Bible.

So we kind of flew over the top of it, looked down upon it from a bird's eye view and now we are in it and today we will take another step forward.

We have been reading from the New Living Translation this week which is how we will conclude our week.

Isaiah, chapters 3 through 5.

The Lord, the Lord of Heavens armies, will take away from Jerusalem and Judah everything they depend on, every bit of bread and every drop of water.

All their heroes and soldiers, judges and prophets, fortune tellers and elders, army officers and high officials, advisors, skilled sorcerers and astrologers.

I will make boys their leaders and toddlers their rulers. People will oppress each other, man against man, neighbor against neighbor.

Young people will insult their elders and vulgar people will sneer at the honorable.

In those days, a man will say to his brother, since you have a coat, you be our leader. Take charge of this heap of ruins.

But he will reply, no, I can't help. I don't have any extra food or clothes. Don't put me in charge.

For Jerusalem will stumble and Judah will fall because they speak out against the Lord and refuse to obey him. They provoke him to his face.

The very look on their faces gives them away. They display their sin like the people of Sodom and don't even try to hide it.

They are doomed. They have brought destruction upon themselves.

Tell the godly that all will be well for them. They will enjoy the rich reward they have earned, but the wicked are doomed, for they will get exactly what they deserve.

Childish leaders oppress my people and women rule over them.

Oh my people, your leaders mislead you. They send you down the wrong road.

The Lord takes his place in court and presents his case against his people. The Lord comes forward to pronounce judgment on the elders and rulers of his people.

You have ruined Israel. My vineyard. Your houses are filled with things stolen from the poor. How dare you crush my people?

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