Good evening and welcome to our Bible study on Thursday nights. We're going through the Bible,

book by book, and chapter by chapter and verse by verse. And tonight we are in Isaiah making our way

through this amazing book. Last week we finished chapter 19. Tonight we're going to pick it up in

chapter 20. And Lord willing, we're going to make it all the way through to chapter 23.

Four chapters.

Why are you looking at me like that?

I'll have you out of here by about midnight.

Shouldn't be a problem.

But we're going to do this, all right? Let's pray. We'll ask God

to bless our Bible study tonight. Father, thank you so much for your word and for this portion

that is here before us tonight here in Isaiah. Lord, we so look forward to this time that we can just come to this place

and open up our Bibles and put aside all the busyness and stress and pressures of our lives

and focus our attention on you and your word and that which you have

for us in your words. So tonight, Lord, we're asking you as only you can to bless our time together

in your word we pray in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. All right. So, spent some time seeking the Lord and made the decision

after praying about this to complete four chapters tonight from chapter 20 to chapter 23 for a couple

of reasons, the first of which is that I kind of want to finish what's

referred to as the book of burdens. Just it's, these are burdens and I kind of want to get done

with these burdens, these, you know, weighty, is that bad?

Actually, by burdens, I mean these weighty, heavy, burdensome prophecies that Isaiah was

to proclaim and pronounce and declare about these coming judgments.

And we're going to see this a little bit tonight with Isaiah where he just breaks down

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