Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000665
00:15 Hello, and welcome to "His Words Are Life."
00:18 I am Kelly Mowrer, and today we're going to 00:20 be reading from the Book of Jeremiah. 00:22 But let's pray together before we start. 00:25 Dear Heavenly Father, thank You so much 00:27 for this opportunity to come apart 00:29 from all that we are doing right now 00:31 and to just sit and hear Your word. 00:34 Please send Your Holy Spirit 00:35 to guide our hearts as we listen. 00:37 We love you so much 00:38 and thank You for loving us, amen. 00:41 We're reading in Jeremiah 48, beginning with verse 35, 00:46 and this is the King James Version. 00:49 "Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, 00:53 saith the Lord, him that offereth in the high places, 00:57 and him that burneth incense to his gods. 01:00 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, 01:03 and mine heart shall sound like pipes 01:06 for the men of Kirheres, 01:08 because the riches that he hath gotten are perished. 01:11 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped, 01:16 upon all the hands shall be cuttings, 01:18 and upon the loins sackcloth. 01:20 There shall be lamentation generally 01:22 upon all the housetops of Moab, 01:24 and in the streets thereof, 01:26 for I have broken Moab like a vessel 01:28 wherein is no pleasure, saith the Lord. 01:32 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! 01:35 How hath Moab turned the back with shame! 01:39 So shall Moab be a derision 01:41 and a dismaying to all them about him. 01:45 For thus saith the Lord, Behold, 01:47 he shall fly as an eagle, 01:48 and shall spread his wings over Moab. 01:51 And Kerioth is taken, 01:52 and the strong holds are surprised, 01:54 and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day 01:57 shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. 02:00 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, 02:04 because he hath magnified himself against the Lord. 02:08 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, 02:11 shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, 02:13 saith the Lord. 02:15 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit, 02:18 and he that getteth up out of the pit 02:20 shall be taken in the snare, for I will bring upon it, 02:23 even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, 02:27 saith the Lord. 02:29 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon 02:32 because of the force, 02:33 but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, 02:36 and a flame from the midst of Sihon, 02:38 and shall deliver the corner of Moab, 02:41 and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. 02:44 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! 02:47 The people of Chemosh perisheth, 02:49 for thy sons are taken captives, 02:51 and thy daughters captives. 02:53 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab 02:56 in the latter days, saith the Lord. 02:58 Thus far is the judgment of Moab." 03:02 Continuing in Jeremiah Chapter 49, 03:05 and this is the King James Version. 03:08 "Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the Lord, 03:12 Hath Israel no sons? Hath he no heir? 03:15 Why then doth their king inherit Gad, 03:17 and his people dwell in his cities? 03:20 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, 03:22 that I will cause an alarm of war 03:25 to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites, 03:28 and it shall be a desolate heap, 03:29 and her daughters shall be burned with fire 03:31 and then shall Israel be heir unto them 03:34 that were his heirs, saith the Lord. 03:36 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled, 03:40 cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, 03:42 gird you with sackcloth, lament, 03:44 and run to and fro by the hedges, 03:47 for their king shall go into captivity, 03:49 and his priests and his princes together. 03:52 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, 03:55 thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? 03:58 That trusted in her treasures, 03:59 saying, who shall come unto me? 04:01 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, 04:04 saith the Lord God of hosts, 04:06 from all those that be about thee, 04:08 and ye shall be driven out every man right forth, 04:11 and none shall gather up him that wandereth. 04:15 And afterward I will bring again 04:17 the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the Lord. 04:20 Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts, 04:24 Is wisdom no more in Teman? 04:26 Is counsel perished from the prudent? 04:29 Is their wisdom vanished? 04:31 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, 04:34 O inhabitants of Dedan, 04:36 for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, 04:40 the time that I will visit him. 04:42 If grape gatherers come to thee, 04:44 would they not leave some gleaning grapes? 04:47 If thieves by night, 04:49 they will destroy till they have enough. 04:51 But I have made Esau bare, 04:53 I have uncovered his secret places, 04:54 and he shall not be able to hide himself, 04:57 his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, 04:59 and his neighbors, and he is not. 05:02 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, 05:06 and let thy widow trust in me. 05:09 For thus saith the Lord, Behold, 05:11 they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup 05:15 have assuredly drunken, 05:17 and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? 05:21 Thou shalt not go unpunished, 05:22 but thou shalt surely drink of it. 05:25 For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, 05:27 that Bozrah shall become a desolation, 05:29 a reproach, a waste, and a curse, 05:32 and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. 05:36 I have heard a rumour from the Lord, 05:38 and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, 05:40 saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, 05:43 and rise up to the battle. 05:44 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, 05:47 and despised among men. 05:49 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, 05:51 and the pride of thine heart, 05:53 O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, 05:56 that holdest the height of the hill, 05:58 though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, 06:02 I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord. 06:06 Also Edom shall be a desolation, 06:08 every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, 06:11 and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. 06:15 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah 06:18 and the neighbor cities thereof, saith the Lord, 06:19 no man shall abide there, 06:21 neither shall a son of man dwell in it. 06:24 Behold, he shall come up like a lion 06:26 from the swelling of Jordan 06:27 against the habitation of the strong, 06:29 but I will suddenly make him run away from her, 06:31 and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? 06:34 For who is like me? 06:36 And who will appoint me the time? 06:37 And who is that shepherd that will stand before me? 06:41 Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, 06:42 that he hath taken against Edom, 06:45 and his purposes, that he hath purposed 06:46 against the inhabitants of Teman, 06:49 Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out, 06:52 surely he shall make their habitations 06:54 desolate with them. 06:56 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, 06:58 at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea. 07:02 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, 07:05 and spread his wings over Bozrah, 07:07 and at that day shall the heart 07:09 of the mighty men of Edom 07:11 be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. 07:14 Concerning Damascus. 07:16 Hamath is confounded, and Arpad, 07:18 for they have heard evil tidings, 07:19 they are fainthearted, there is sorrow on the sea, 07:22 it cannot be quiet. 07:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, 07:29 and fear hath seized on her, 07:31 anguish and sorrows have taken her, 07:34 as a woman in travail. 07:36 How is the city of praise not left, 07:38 the city of my joy! Therefore her young men 07:41 shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war 07:43 shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts. 07:47 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, 07:50 and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad. 07:54 Concerning Kedar, 07:55 and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, 07:57 which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, 08:00 thus saith the Lord, Arise ye, go up to Kedar, 08:02 and spoil the men of the east. 08:04 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away, 08:07 they shall take to themselves their curtains, 08:09 and all their vessels, and their camels, 08:10 and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side. 08:13 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, 08:15 O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the Lord, 08:18 for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon 08:20 hath taken counsel against you, 08:22 and hath conceived a purpose against you. 08:24 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, 08:26 that dwelleth without care, saith the Lord, 08:29 which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone. 08:33 And their camels shall be a booty, 08:34 and the multitude of their cattle a spoil, 08:37 and I will scatter into all winds them 08:40 that are in the utmost corners, 08:41 and I will bring their calamity 08:43 from all sides thereof, saith the Lord. 08:46 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, 08:49 and a desolation for ever, 08:51 there shall no man abide there, 08:53 nor any son of man dwell in it. 08:56 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet 08:59 against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah 09:02 king of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, 09:05 Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, 09:08 the chief of their might. 09:10 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds 09:12 from the four quarters of heaven, 09:14 and will scatter them toward all those winds, 09:16 and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam 09:20 shall not come. 09:22 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, 09:25 and before them that seek their life, 09:27 and I will bring evil upon them, 09:29 even my fierce anger, saith the Lord, 09:32 and I will send the sword after them, 09:34 till I have consumed them, 09:36 And I will set my throne in Elam, 09:38 and will destroy from thence the king 09:40 and the princes, saith the Lord. 09:43 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, 09:46 that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, 09:48 saith the Lord." 09:51 Continuing in Jeremiah Chapter 50, 09:53 and this is the King James Version. 09:56 "The word that the Lord spake against Babylon 09:59 and against the land of the Chaldeans 10:01 by Jeremiah the prophet. 10:03 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, 10:06 and set up a standard, publish, 10:08 and conceal not, say, Babylon is taken, 10:13 Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces, 10:17 her idols are confounded, 10:18 her images are broken in pieces. 10:20 For out of the north 10:21 there cometh up a nation against her, 10:23 which shall make her land desolate, 10:24 and none shall dwell therein, they shall remove, 10:28 they shall depart, both man and beast. 10:32 In those days, and in that time, 10:34 saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, 10:37 they and the children of Judah together, 10:40 going and weeping, they shall go, 10:43 and seek the Lord their God. 10:46 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, 10:49 saying, "come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord 10:52 in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten." 10:57 My people hath been lost sheep, 10:59 their shepherds have caused them to go astray, 11:03 they have turned them away on the mountains, 11:05 they have gone from mountain to hill, 11:07 they have forgotten their resting place. 11:10 All that found them have devoured them, 11:12 and their adversaries said, "We offend not, 11:15 because they have sinned against the Lord, 11:17 the habitation of justice, even the Lord, 11:19 the hope of their fathers." 11:21 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, 11:23 and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, 11:25 and be as the he goats before the flocks. 11:29 For, lo, I will raise 11:31 and cause to come up against Babylon 11:34 an assembly of great nations from the north country, 11:38 and they shall set themselves in array against her, 11:41 from thence she shall be taken, 11:44 their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man, 11:48 none shall return in vain. 11:50 And Chaldea shall be a spoil, 11:53 all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord. 11:57 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, 12:00 O ye destroyers of mine heritage, 12:02 because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, 12:06 and bellow as bulls, 12:08 Your mother shall be sore confounded. 12:13 And she that bare you shall be ashamed, behold, 12:16 the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, 12:19 a dry land, and a desert. 12:21 Because of the wrath of the Lord 12:22 it shall not be inhabited, 12:24 but it shall be wholly desolate, 12:26 every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, 12:29 and hiss at all her plagues. 12:32 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about, 12:35 all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows, 12:38 for she hath sinned against the Lord. 12:41 Shout against her round about, she hath given her hand, 12:44 walls are thrown down, for it is the vengeance of the Lord, 12:48 take vengeance upon her, as she hath done, do unto her. 12:53 Cut off the sower from Babylon, 12:55 and him that handleth the sickle 12:56 in the time of harvest, for fear of the oppressing sword 12:59 they shall turn every one to his people, 13:01 and they shall flee every one to his own land. 13:04 Israel is a scattered sheep, 13:06 the lions have driven him away, 13:08 first the king of Assyria hath devoured him, 13:11 and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon 13:13 hath broken his bones. 13:15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, 13:17 the God of Israel, Behold, 13:20 I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, 13:22 as I have punished the king of Assyria. 13:25 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, 13:28 and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, 13:31 and his soul shall be satisfied 13:32 upon mount Ephraim and Gilead. 13:35 In those days, and in that time, 13:37 saith the Lord, 13:39 the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, 13:41 and there shall be none, and the sins of Judah, 13:45 and they shall not be found, 13:46 for I will pardon them whom I reserve. 13:50 Go up against the land of Merathaim, 13:51 even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, 13:55 waste and utterly destroy after them, 13:57 saith the Lord, and do according to all 14:00 that I have commanded thee. 14:01 A sound of battle is in the land, 14:04 and of great destruction. 14:06 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! 14:09 How is Babylon become a desolation 14:11 among the nations. 14:13 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, 14:16 O Babylon, and thou wast not aware, 14:19 thou art found, and also caught, 14:21 because thou hast striven against the Lord. 14:24 The Lord hath opened his armoury, 14:25 and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation 14:28 for this is the work of the Lord 14:29 God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. 14:32 Come against her from the utmost border, 14:34 open her storehouses, cast her up as heaps, 14:38 and destroy her utterly, let nothing of her be left. |
Revised 2014-12-17