Welcome to episode 169 of Bible Talk, podcast brought to you by Nine Marks in Southern Seminary.

My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my two friends, Sam Melodic, Jim Hamilton.

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That's a lot of things to say at the beginning.

Okay.

Now, we had a short episode last week, you know, and I got some emails about how short it was.

Just making stuff up.

I know.

They'll be able to see we're wearing the same clothes.

No.

Just kidding.

That was a joke.

I haven't gotten any emails, but I might.

You know, because we weren't quite sure exactly where to break it down.

So we've decided to start a new episode here.

I know I said at the beginning of the last episode we were going to do 21 and 22, or maybe I did. I don't even remember. Here we are going to do Isaiah 22, which just looking at my uninspired subtitle, it tells me that we're about to read an oracle concerning Jerusalem. So my question is, so we've been, for several weeks now, we've been going

through, marching through these oracles against the nations, sort of non-Israelite nations,

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