Day 203: Rejoice in the Lord (2025)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike points out God's remarkable promise of deliverance to Israel even in the midst of their captivity and apparent hopelessness. Even when we don't see God working in our lives, we rejoice in God because we trust and hope in his promise of salvation. Today's readings are Isaiah 25-27, Habakkuk 3, and Proverbs 11:5-8.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we |
| 0:07.6 | encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is |
| 0:11.6 | brought to you by Ascension. Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from |
| 0:15.3 | Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that |
| 0:19.4 | story today. It is date 203. Wow, and we're reading from Isaiah 25, 26, and 27. We're also reading Habakkuk chapter 3, the conclusion of Abakuk. We're also reading Proverbs chapter 11 verses 5 through 8. 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. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, |
| 0:40.1 | you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe to this podcast by |
| 0:44.7 | clicking on and subscribe, receive daily episodes and daily updates. Today is day 203. As I said, |
| 0:50.5 | we're reading Isaiah 25 through 27, Habakkuk chapter 3, Proverbs 11, verses 5 through 8. |
| 0:58.3 | The book of the prophet Isaiah, chapter 25, praise for deliverance from oppression. |
| 1:04.5 | O Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful |
| 1:10.0 | things. Plans formed of old, faithful, your name, for you have done wonderful things. |
| 1:17.4 | Plans formed of old, faithful, and sure. For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin. |
| 1:23.5 | The palace of strangers is a city no more. It will never be rebuilt. Therefore, strong peoples will glorify you. Cities of ruthless nations will fear you. For you have been a stronghold to the poor, |
| 1:30.1 | a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. |
| 1:35.7 | For the blast of the ruthless, it's like a storm against a wall, like heat in a dry place. |
| 1:41.4 | You subdue the noise of the strangers as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the |
| 1:45.4 | song of the ruthless is stilled. On this mountain, the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples |
| 1:51.0 | a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of choice wines |
| 1:57.2 | well refined, and he will destroy on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, |
| 2:02.8 | the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord God will |
| 2:08.1 | wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, |
| 2:13.2 | for the Lord has spoken. It will be said on that day, behold, this is our God. We have waited for him |
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