Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000637
00:15 Hello, and welcome to "His Words are Life".
00:18 I am Kelly Mowrer, 00:19 and today we're going to read together in Isaiah. 00:22 But let's pray before we start. 00:24 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for a chance 00:27 to come in to hear of Your mighty strength 00:32 and of Your power 00:35 and of how You work mercy and justice and truth 00:40 for those who are oppressed. 00:42 Thank you for freeing us and for rescuing us 00:47 from the enemy who oppressed us. 00:49 We love you and we want to serve You better, 00:51 please show us how, amen. 00:55 We're reading in the book of Isaiah, 00:57 Chapter 24, beginning with verse 21 01:00 and this is the King James Version, 01:03 "And it shall come to pass in that day, 01:05 that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones 01:08 that are on high, 01:10 and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 01:13 And they shall be gathered together, 01:14 as prisoners are gathered in the pit, 01:17 and shall be shut up in the prison, 01:18 and after many days shall they be visited. 01:22 Then the moon shall be confounded, 01:23 and the sun ashamed, 01:25 when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, 01:28 and in Jerusalem, 01:30 and before his ancients gloriously. 01:34 Continuing in the Book of Isaiah with Chapter 25. 01:38 "O Lord, thou art my God, 01:41 I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name, 01:43 for thou hast done wonderful things, 01:46 thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 01:50 For thou hast made of a city an heap, 01:53 of a defenced city a ruin, 01:56 the palace of strangers to be no city, 01:59 it shall never be built. 02:01 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, 02:03 the city of the terrible nations 02:05 shall fear thee. 02:07 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, 02:09 a strength to the needy in his distress, 02:12 a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, 02:17 when the blast of the terrible ones 02:18 is as a storm against the wall. 02:21 "Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, 02:24 as the heat in a dry place, 02:26 even the heat with the shadow of a cloud, 02:29 the branch of the terrible ones 02:31 shall be brought low. 02:33 And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts 02:35 make unto all people a feast of fat things, 02:39 a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, 02:44 of wines on the lees well refined. 02:47 And he will destroy in this mountain 02:49 the face of the covering cast over all people, 02:52 and the vail that is spread over all nations. 02:55 He will swallow up death in victory, 02:59 and the Lord God will wipe away 03:00 tears from off all faces, 03:03 and the rebuke of his people 03:05 shall he take away from off all the earth, 03:08 for the Lord hath spoken it. 03:10 And it shall be said in that day, 03:13 Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, 03:16 and he will save us, this is the Lord, 03:19 we have waited for him, 03:20 we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 03:24 For in this mountain 03:25 shall the hand of the Lord rest, 03:27 and Moab shall be trodden down under him, 03:30 even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill." 03:34 And he shall spread forth his hands 03:36 in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth 03:38 spreadeth forth his hands to swim, 03:41 and he shall bring down their pride together 03:43 with the spoils of their hands. 03:45 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls 03:48 shall he bring down, lay low, 03:51 and bring to the ground, even to the dust." 03:56 Continuing in Isaiah Chapter 26, 03:58 and this is the King James Version. 04:01 "In that day shall this song be sung 04:04 in the land of Judah, We have a strong city, 04:08 salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 04:12 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation 04:15 which keepeth the truth may enter in. 04:19 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, 04:22 whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. 04:27 Trust ye in the Lord for ever, 04:29 for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. 04:34 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high, 04:36 the lofty city, he layeth it low, 04:38 he layeth it low, even to the ground, 04:41 he bringeth it even to the dust. 04:44 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, 04:47 and the steps of the needy. 04:50 The way of the just is uprightness, 04:53 thou, most upright, 04:55 dost weigh the path of the just. 04:58 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, 05:00 O Lord, have we waited for thee, 05:02 the desire of our soul is to thy name, 05:06 and to the remembrance of thee. 05:08 With my soul have I desired thee in the night, 05:10 yea, with my spirit within me 05:12 will I seek thee early, 05:14 for when thy judgments are in the earth, 05:16 the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 05:19 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, 05:21 yet will he not learn uprightness, 05:24 in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, 05:26 and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. 05:29 Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, 05:31 they will not see, but they shall see, 05:35 and be ashamed for their envy at the people, 05:39 yea, the fire of thine enemies 05:40 shall devour them. 05:43 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us, 05:46 for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. 05:50 O Lord our God, other lords beside thee 05:54 have had dominion over us, 05:56 but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 06:00 They are dead, they shall not live, 06:02 they are deceased, they shall not rise, 06:04 therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, 06:06 and made all their memory to perish. 06:09 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, 06:11 thou hast increased the nation, 06:13 thou art glorified, thou hadst removed it far 06:17 unto all the ends of the earth. 06:19 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, 06:22 they poured out a prayer 06:23 when thy chastening was upon them. 06:25 Like as a woman with child, 06:27 that draweth near the time of her delivery, 06:29 is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs, 06:31 so have we been in thy sight, O Lord. 06:34 We have been with child, we have been in pain, 06:36 we have as it were brought forth wind, 06:40 we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth, 06:43 neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. 06:46 Thy dead men shall live, 06:47 together with my dead body shall they arise. 06:51 Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust, 06:54 for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, 06:57 and the earth shall cast out the dead. 07:00 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, 07:03 and shut thy doors about thee, 07:06 hide thyself as it were for a little moment, 07:09 until the indignation be overpast. 07:12 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place 07:15 to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, 07:20 the earth also shall disclose her blood, 07:22 and shall no more cover her slain." 07:27 Continuing to read in the Book of Isaiah 07:29 Chapter 27, this is the King James Version. 07:34 "In that day the Lord with his sore and great 07:38 and strong sword 07:40 shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, 07:43 even leviathan that crooked serpent, 07:45 and he shall slay the dragon 07:47 that is in the sea. 07:49 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. 07:53 I the Lord do keep it, I will water it every moment, 07:58 lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 08:03 Fury is not in me, who would set the briers 08:06 and thorns against me in battle? 08:09 I would go through them, I would burn them together. 08:13 Or let him take hold of my strength, 08:15 that he may make peace with me, 08:17 and he shall make peace with me. 08:19 He shall cause them 08:21 that come of Jacob to take root, 08:24 Israel shall blossom and bud, 08:26 and fill the face of the world with fruit. 08:29 Hath he smitten him, 08:31 as he smote those that smote him? 08:34 Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them 08:37 that are slain by him? 08:39 In measure, when it shooteth forth, 08:42 thou wilt debate with it, 08:44 he stayeth his rough wind 08:46 in the day of the east wind. 08:48 By this therefore 08:49 shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, 08:52 and this is all the fruit to take away his sin, 08:55 when he maketh all the stones of the altar 08:57 as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, 09:00 the groves and images shall not stand up. 09:05 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, 09:09 and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness, 09:12 there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, 09:16 and consume the branches thereof. 09:19 When the boughs thereof are withered, 09:21 they shall be broken off, 09:22 the women come, and set them on fire, 09:25 for it is a people of no understanding, 09:28 therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, 09:32 and he that formed them will shew them no favour. 09:35 And it shall come to pass in that day, 09:38 that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river 09:41 unto the stream of Egypt, 09:43 and ye shall be gathered one by one, 09:45 O ye children of Israel. 09:48 And it shall come to pass in that day, 09:49 that the great trumpet shall be blown, 09:51 and they shall come which were ready to perish 09:54 in the land of Assyria, 09:55 and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, 09:57 and shall worship the Lord 09:59 in the holy mount at Jerusalem." 10:03 Continuing with Isaiah Chapter 28, 10:05 this is the King James Version. 10:08 "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, 10:13 whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, 10:16 which are on the head of the fat valleys of them 10:19 that are overcome with wine! 10:22 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, 10:25 which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, 10:29 as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, 10:32 shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 10:36 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, 10:38 shall be trodden under feet. 10:41 And the glorious beauty, 10:42 which is on the head of the fat valley, 10:44 shall be a fading flower, 10:46 and as the hasty fruit before the summer, 10:50 which when he that looketh upon it seeth, 10:52 while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. 10:56 In that day shall the Lord of hosts 10:58 be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, 11:01 unto the residue of his people. 11:03 And for a spirit of judgment to him 11:05 that sitteth in judgment, 11:06 and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. 11:11 But they also have erred through wine, 11:13 and through strong drink are out of the way, 11:16 the priest and the prophet 11:18 have erred through strong drink, 11:19 they are swallowed up of wine, 11:21 they are out of the way through strong drink, 11:24 they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 11:28 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, 11:30 so that there is no place clean. 11:33 Whom shall he teach knowledge? 11:35 And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? 11:39 Them that are weaned from the milk, 11:40 and drawn from the breasts. 11:43 For precept must be upon precept, 11:45 precept upon precept, 11:47 line upon line, line upon line, 11:49 here a little, and there a little. 11:52 For with stammering lips and another tongue 11:54 will he speak to this people. 11:56 To whom he said, This is the rest 11:57 wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest, 12:00 and this is the refreshing, yet they would not hear. 12:05 But the word of the Lord was unto them 12:06 precept upon precept, precept upon precept, 12:10 line upon line, line upon line, 12:14 here a little, and there a little, 12:16 that they might go, and fall backward, 12:18 and be broken, and snared, and taken. 12:22 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, 12:23 ye scornful men, that rule this people 12:26 which is in Jerusalem. 12:28 Because ye have said, 12:30 We have made a covenant with death, 12:32 and with hell are we at agreement, 12:35 when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, 12:37 it shall not come unto us, 12:38 for we have made lies our refuge, 12:41 and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. 12:45 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, 12:48 Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, 12:53 a tried stone, a precious corner stone, 12:56 a sure foundation, he that believeth 13:00 shall not make haste. 13:02 Judgment also will I lay to the line, 13:05 and righteousness to the plummet, 13:07 and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, 13:11 and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 13:15 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, 13:17 and your agreement with hell shall not stand, 13:20 when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, 13:23 then ye shall be trodden down by it. 13:26 From the time that it goeth forth 13:28 it shall take you, 13:29 for morning by morning shall it pass over, 13:31 by day and by night, 13:32 and it shall be a vexation 13:33 only to understand the report. 13:36 For the bed is shorter 13:37 than that a man can stretch himself on it, 13:40 and the covering narrower 13:42 than that he can wrap himself in it. 13:44 For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, 13:48 he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, 13:51 that he may do his work, his strange work, 13:55 and bring to pass his act, his strange act. 13:59 Now therefore be ye not mockers, 14:03 lest your bands be made strong, 14:05 for I have heard from the Lord 14:06 God of hosts a consumption, 14:08 even determined upon the whole earth. 14:11 Give ye ear, and hear my voice, 14:14 hearken, and hear my speech. 14:17 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? 14:19 doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 14:22 When he hath made plain the face thereof, 14:24 doth he not cast abroad the fitches, 14:26 and scatter the cummin, 14:27 and cast in the principal wheat 14:29 and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? 14:33 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, 14:37 and doth teach him. |
Revised 2014-12-17