Day 213: The Redeemer (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 lands 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 213 We are reading roughly four plus chapters today. We are reading Isaiah 47 and 48, as well as Ezekiel 8 and 9 We are also dabbling into Proverbs 12 verses 13 through 16 As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I am 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. I'd like to know how many people have done that. That's very interesting. Well, to me, it is how many people have or how many people have ever typed in ascensionpress.com/bible in a Year. I don't know, just a piece of curiosity for me. Anyways, you can subscribe to this podcast if you like by clicking on subscribe. You can receive daily episodes, but it is still regardless of what you can do with this podcast. It's day 213, Isaiah 47 and 48, Ezekiel chapter 8 and 9, Proverbs chapter 12 verses 13 through 16
The Book of the Prophet Isaiah chapter 47, The Humiliation of Babylon.
Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones and grindmeal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers. Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no man. Our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.
Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called the Mistress of Kingdoms. I was angry with my people. I profaned my heritage. I gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. On the aged, you made your yoke exceedingly heavy. You said, I shall be Mistress forever. So that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
Now therefore, hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am and there is no one besides me. I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children. These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day. The loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments. You felt secure in your wickedness. You said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, I am and there is no one besides me. But evil shall come upon you, for which you cannot atone. Disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to expiate, and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing.
Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you may be able to succeed. Perhaps you may inspire terror.
You are wearied with your many councils. Let them stand forth and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons predict what shall befall you. Behold, they are like stubble. The fire consumes them. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before. Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have trafficked with you from your youth. They wander about each in his own direction. There is no one to save you.
Chapter 48, Israel's Unfaithfulness to God, the Creator and Redeemer.
Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came forth from the loins of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord, and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right. For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel, the Lord of hosts is his name. The former things I declared of old, that went forth from my mouth, and I made them known. Then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass, because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead brass. I declared them to you from of old. Before they came to pass, I announced them to you, lest you should say, My idol did them, my graven image, and my molten image commanded them. You have heard, now see all this, and will you not declare it? From this time forth, I make you hear new things, hidden things which you have not known. They are created now, not long ago, before today, you have never heard of them, lest you should say, Behold, I knew them. You have never heard, you have never known. From of old, your ear has not been opened, for I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and that from birth you were called a rebel.