Day 238: Fall of Jerusalem (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 in 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. Speaking of today, it is day 238 If that means anything to you, it means at least two things to me. One, it means it's the last day on the sheet of paper, if you've ever downloaded the ascensionpress.com/bible in a Year, Bible in a Year reading plan, you get to flip the page, you maybe even get to throw this page away. I am going to laminate my page so that I can keep it forever. But I check it off today after this reading, day 238 Also, it means we are beginning Daniel chapter 1 and 2 So we're reading today, Jeremiah 20 and 21, Daniel chapters 1 and 2, as well as Proverbs chapter 15 verses 25 to 28 As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. As I said before, if you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com.
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The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah chapter 20 Jeremiah is persecuted by Paschur and complains to God. Now, Paschur the priest, the son of Imur, who was chief officer of the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. Then Paschur beat Jeremiah, the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin gate of the house of the Lord. On the next day, when Paschur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, The Lord does not call your name Paschur, but Terror on every side. For thus says the Lord, Behold, I will make you a Terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon. And you, Paschor, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.
O Lord, you have deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughing stock all the day. Everyone mocks me, for whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, violence and destruction. For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. If I say, I will not mention him or speak any more in his name. There is in my heart, as it were, a burning fire shot up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. For I hear many whispering, terror is on every side. Denounce him, let us denounce him, say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him.
But the Lord is with me as a dread warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble. They will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten. O Lord of hosts, who test the righteous, who see the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them. For to you have I committed my cause.
Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord, for he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
Cursed be the day on which I was born. The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, a son is born to you, making him very glad. Let that man be like the cities which the Lord overthrew without pity. Let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon because he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever great.