Day 249: Prayer of Judith (2025)

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🗓️ 6 September 2025

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Fr. Mike highlights the wisdom and faith of Judith, heroine of the Old Testament, and shows us how her prayer in not just a prayer of intercession, but also one of praise. The readings are Jeremiah 37-38, Judith 8-9, and Proverbs 17:5-8.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.7	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you
0:12.3	by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:17.0	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 249. We are reading from Jeremiah chapter 37 and 38. Also, Judith 8 and 9. We finally get introduced to Judith today, as well as Proverbs chapter 17 versus 5 through 8. As always, the Bible translation 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 you can visit ascensionpress.com slash bible in a year
0:42.3	you can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe let's get after it because it is day
0:47.8	249 we're reading jeremiah 37 and 38 introduced to judith herself in judith eight and
0:53.8	and proverbs chapter 17, verses 5 through 8.
1:00.0	The book of the prophet Jeremiah, chapter 37, Zedekiah asks Jeremiah's prayers.
1:06.7	Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah,
1:11.3	reigned instead of Conaya, the son of Jeholyakim. But neither he nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to the words of the Lord which he spoke through Jeremiah, the prophet. King Zedekiah sent Jehukal, the son of Shalamaya, and Zephaniah, the priest, the son of Maasiah, to Jeremiah the prophet saying,
1:08.6	Pray for us to the Lord our God.
1:10.7	Now Jeremiah was still going in and and Zefaniah, the priest, the son of Maasai, to Jeremiah, the prophet saying, pray for us to the Lord
1:29.1	our God. Now, Jeremiah was still going in and out among the people, for he had not yet been put in
1:34.1	prison. The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem
1:39.2	heard news of them, they withdrew from Jerusalem. Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet.
1:45.4	Thus says the Lord, God of Israel, thus shall you say to the king of Judah, who sent you to me
1:50.8	to inquire of me, behold, Pharaoh's army, which came to help you, is about to return to Egypt to its
1:56.9	own land. And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city. They shall take it
2:02.4	and burn it with fire. Thus says the Lord, do not deceive yourselves, saying the Chaldeans will
2:08.5	surely stay away from us, for they will not stay away. For even if you should defeat the whole
2:13.7	army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them, only wounded men.
2:19.0	Every man in his tent they would rise up and burn this city with fire.
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