Day 255: God Is Good (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 255 Gosh, you guys, 110 days, 110 days and you have gone through the entire Bible, which is phenomenal, bonkers, crazy. We're reading Jeremiah 49 and 50 today. Chapter 50 and 51, which will be tomorrow, are really long chapters, just buckle in and know what's coming. That's Jeremiah 49 and 50, as well as Lamentations Chapter 3 We're about halfway, we're a little over halfway. Chapter 3 is the midway point in Lamentations. There's only five chapters and Proverbs Chapter 18 Verses 5-8. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from, is there Rise, Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. 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 receiving the daily episodes and daily updates and all things every day. Speaking of days, it is Day 255 We're reading Jeremiah 49 and 50, Lamentations 3 and Proverbs Chapter 18 Verses 5-8.

The Book of Jeremiah Chapter 49, Judgment against the Ammonites. Concerning the Ammonites, Thus says the LORD, Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcham dispossessed Gad and his people settled in its cities? Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabba of the Ammonites. It shall become a desolate mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire. Then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the LORD. Wail, O Heshban, for Ai is laid waste. Cry, O daughters of Rabba, clothe yourselves with sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges. For Milcham shall go into exile with his priests and his princes. Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who will come against me? Behold, I will bring terror upon you, says the Lord God of hosts, from all who are round about you, and you shall be driven out every man straight before him, with none to gather the fugitives. But afterward, I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, says the Lord.

Judgment against Edom. Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts, Is wisdom no more intaman? Has council perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring the Calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him. If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves? But I have stripped Esau bare. I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more. Leave your fatherless children, I will keep them alive. And let your widows trust in me. For thus says the Lord, If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink. For I have sworn by myself, says the Lord, that Beausra shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse. And all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.

I have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations. Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle. For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among men. The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagles, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord. Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified, and will hiss because of all its disasters. As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbor cities were overthrown, says the Lord, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her. Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against the strong sheepfold, I will suddenly make them run away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?