Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast,

where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.

The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.

Using the 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. It is day 201, 201 days. We were reading from Isaiah chapter 21 and 22, Nehum or Nahum.

I keep saying that. I don't know why I do it, but we do it. Nahum chapter three, it's only three

chapters long, so we read the entire book in two days. Also, we're reading Proverbs chapter 10 versus 29 through 32. I said reading proverbs, not eating proverbs. Hopefully you caught that. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from, not eating from, is also the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit Ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe it in your

podcast to receive daily episodes every day. That's how daily episodes work. But as I said,

today is day 201 reading Isaiah 21 and 22, Nehom, chapter 3, and Proverbs 10, verses 29 through 32.

The Book of the prophet Isaiah chapter 21,

oracles concerning Babylon, Edom, and Arabia.

The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea.

As whirlwinds in the Negev sweep on,

it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

A stern vision is told to me, the

plunderer plunders, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O elam. Lay siege o Medea. All the

sighing she has caused I bring to an end. Therefore, my loins are filled with anguish. Pangs

have seized me like the pangs of a woman with labor pains.

I am bowed down so that I cannot hear.

I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

My mind reels.

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