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It is day 20.5. We're reading Isaiah chapter 30 and 31. Also, Zefaniah chapter 3. There's only three chapters in Zefaniah. I'm not sure if I said there were four yesterday, but if you divide chapter 3 into two parts, it's there's three and four. That's not how it is, though. We're only Zeven chapter three. I also reading Proverbs chapter 11 versus 13 through 16.

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Because today is 20 and 5, and we're reading Isaiah 30 and 31, Zephaniah, chapter 3, which is also the last chapter of Zefaniah, and Proverbs, chapter 11, verses 13 through 16.

The book of the prophet, Isaiah, chapter 30, a rebellious people.

Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord, who carry out a plan, but not mine,

who make a league, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin, who set out to go down to Egypt without asking for my counsel to take

refuge in the protection of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt. Therefore, the protection

of Pharaoh shall turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.

For though his officials are at Zoan, and his envoys reach Hane's,

everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them that brings neither help nor profit,

but shame and disgrace. An oracle on the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of trouble and

anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion,

the viper and the flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys and their

treasures on the humps of camels to a people that cannot profit them. For Egypt's help is worthless

and empty. Therefore I have called her, Rehab, who sits still. And now, go. Write it before them on a

tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever, for they

are a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the instruction of the Lord,

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