Day 205: Promise to Zion (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[gentle music] Hi, my name is Father 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 two hundred and five. We're reading Isaiah, chapter thirty and thirty-one. Also Zephaniah, chapter three. There's only three chapters in Zephaniah. I'm not sure if I said f- there were four yesterday, but if you divide chapter three into two parts, it's-- there's three and four. That's not how it is, though. We're only Zephaniah, chapter three. Also reading Proverbs, chapter eleven, verses thirteen through sixteen. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the 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/bibleinayear. You can also subscribe to this podcast, and if you do, you get to receive... You get the great prize of daily episodes that you probably have already figured out after two hundred or so days because today is two hundred and five, and we're reading Isaiah thirty and thirty-one, Zephaniah, chapter three, which is also the last chapter of Zephaniah, and Proverbs, chapter eleven, verses thirteen through sixteen. The book of the prophet Isaiah, chapter thirty, A rebellious people. "Woe to the rebellious children," says the Lord, "who carry out a plan, but not mine; who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; who set out to go down to Egypt without asking for my counsel, to take