Hi, my name's 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.

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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. It is day 2115. We are reading today from Isaiah chapter 51 and 52. We're continuing with the servant song. And we're also reading Ezekiel chapter 12 and 13. We're also reading Proverbs chapter 12 versus 21 through 24. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition.

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A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah chapter 51, the Lord will comfort Zion.

Listen to me, you who pursue deliverance, who seek the Lord.

Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug.

Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah who bore you.

For when he was but one, I called him, and I blessed him and made him many.

For the Lord will comfort Zion.

He will comfort all her waste places and will make her

wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her,

Thanksgiving and the voice of song. Listen to me, my people, and give ear to me my nation.

For a law will go forth from me, and my justice for a light to the

peoples. My deliverance draws near speedily, my salvation has gone forth, and my arms will rule

the peoples. The islands wait for me, and for my arm they hope. Lift up your eyes to the heavens,

and look at the earth beneath. For the heavens will vanish like smoke.

The earth will wear out like a garment. And they who dwell in it will die like gnats.

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