Today is the 19th day of September. Welcome. Welcome back. Welcome back to the global campfire.

Welcome back to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It is my pleasure and honor to be here with you today and our safe oasis here together as a community

taking another step steps that never stop day by day step by step we continue in an ongoing

relationship with the scriptures.

So glad to be able to take that next step together with you.

We are working our way through Isaiah, a major prophet, one of the longest books in the Bible.

And if I'm not mistaken, we're going to hit the halfway point in Isaiah today. Sixty-six chapters, and we'll get into chapter 33 today. So,

let's jump in, Isaiah chapter 30, verse 12 through 33, verse 9.

Therefore, the Holy One of Israel says,

Because you have rejected this message and have trusted in oppression and deceit and have depended on them,

this iniquity of yours will be like a crumbling gap, a bulge in a high wall whose collapse will come in an instant suddenly.

Its collapse will be like the shattering of a potter's jar crushed to pieces

so that not even a fragment of pottery will be found among its shattered remains.

No fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth or

scoop water from a cistern. For the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel has said, you will be delivered

by returning and resting. Your strength will lie in quiet confidence. But you are not willing.

You say, no. We will escape on horses. Therefore, you will escape and we will ride on fast horses but those who pursue you will be faster.

1,000 will flee at the threat of one.

At the threat of five you will flee until you remain like a solitary pole on a mountaintop or a banner on a hill. Therefore the Lord is waiting to show you

mercy and is rising up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a just God. All who wait patiently

for him are happy. For people will live on Zion in Jerusalem.

You will never weep again.

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