Day 202: God's Judgment (2026)

**Fr. Mike Schmitz** (0:04)
Hi, my name is Fr. Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to The Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using The Great Adventure Bible Timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds, and how we fit into that story today. It is day 202, day 202 We're reading from Isaiah chapter 23 and chapter 24 Also, the prophet Habakkuk, chapter 1 and 2 We only hear Habakkuk for two days, as well as Nahum for two days, Joel for two days, we got Zephaniah, Baruch, he's gonna be three days. But, kind of these shorter, minor prophets, Habakkuk 1 and 2, and we're also reading Proverbs chapter 11 verses 1 through 4 As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, and 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/bible in a Year. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe, and you'd be subscribed. It's Thursday, 202, reading Isaiah 23 and 24 Habakkuk chapters 1 and 2, here's the deal. I'm going to say Habakkuk and I'm going to say Habakkuk because ever since I was a kid, I always said Habakkuk. And then I hear people saying it's Habakkuk and I'm like, okay. Well, I've heard it both ways. Habakkuk chapter 1 and 2, Proverbs chapter 11, verses 1 through 4
The Book of the Prophet Isaiah chapter 23, An Oracle Concerning Tyre, An Oracle Concerning Tyre. Whale, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste without house or haven. From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them. Be still, O inhabitants of the coast, O merchants of Sidon. Your messengers passed over the sea and were on many waters. Your revenue was the grain of Shehor, the harvest of the Nile. You were the merchant of the nations. Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea saying, I have neither endured labor pains nor given birth. I have neither reared young men nor brought up virgins. When the report comes from Egypt, they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre. Pass over to Tarshish, whale, oh inhabitants of the coast. Is this your exultant city, whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle afar? Who has purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth? The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth. Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish, there is no restraint any more. He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms. The Lord has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds, and he said, You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon? Arise, pass over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest. Behold, the land of the Chaldeans, this is the people, it was not Assyria. They destined Tyre for wild beasts, they erected their siege towers, they raised her palaces, they made her a ruin. Well, O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste. In that day Tyre will be forgotten, for seventy years, like the days of one king.
At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot. Take a harp, go about the city, O forgotten harlot, make sweet melody, sing many songs that you may be remembered. At the end of seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her hire, and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. Her merchandise and her hire will be dedicated to the Lord. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the Lord.
Chapter 24, Impending Judgment on the Earth Behold, the Lord will lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants, and it shall be as with the people so with the priest, as with the slave so with his master, as with the maid so with her mistress, as with the buyer so with the seller, as with the lender so with the borrower, as with the creditor so with the debtor.