Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible Any Year Podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life to the lens of Scripture.

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Using great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.

Today, it is day 192. We are in new books, in fact, two new books, including Proverbs, which is an old book for us. We're in Isaiah, chapter 1 and 2, or in Tobit, chapter 1 and 2, and we're in Proverbs, chapter 9, verses 7 through 12.

As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised Standard Version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension.

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You can also subscribe to this podcast if you'd like to receive daily episodes and updated things. Once again, it is day 192. We're reading Isaiah 1 and 2. So Isaiah, we're going to talk about him a bit because we are going to be with Isaiah for the next roughly 30 days.

Give or take if my math is accurate. It's 30 days. And we're also diving into our secondary reading, our second reading is Tobit.

So if you don't have a Catholic Bible, Tobit might not be in your Bible. It might be under what's categorized as apocrypha and non-Catholic Bibles or Deuteronocononical. Or you might even have a Bible that doesn't have it in there. We're talking about why after this. But we're also diving into Isaiah.

So Isaiah 1 and 2, Tobit 1 and 2, in Proverbs, chapter 9, verses 7 through 12.

The Book of the Prophet Isaiah, chapter 1, The Sinfulness of Judah.

The vision of Isaiah, the son of Emma's, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jatham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Hear O heavens and give ear O earth, for the Lord has spoken.

Sons have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.

Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evil doers, sons who deal corruptily. They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.

Why will you still be struck down that you continue to rebelle? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

From the soul of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and bleeding wounds.

They are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil. Your country lies desolate.

Your cities are burned with fire, in your very presence strangers devour your land. It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom and become like Gamora.

Here the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom, give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gamora.

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