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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

God is our all-sufficient Creator and Provider. In the first of the Ten Commandments He says, “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Ex. 20:3). Yet with addictions, we are revealing the fact that our hearts are bowing down to something we believe God cannot provide. The alcohol and drugs are not the essence of the issue. The problem is a heart that worships other gods. Maybe it’s the god of pleasure or the god of love or the god of acceptance or the god of peace or the god of control. You see, the problem is not outside of us. It’s not ultimately at the liquor store or on the Internet. The problem is within us and the booze and pornography are only satisfiers of deeper idols within our hearts. The problem is not the idolatrous substance. The problem is a passion in our heart that is wrongly satisfied with a false god (Concept adapted from Ed Welch, Addictions, p. 49).
Randy Smith

I find myself frequently depressed – perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.
C.H. Spurgeon

Latin Vulgate Isaiah Chapter 33:1-24.

Index: Latin Vulgate

 

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33:1 vae qui praedaris nonne et ipse praedaberis et qui spernis nonne et ipse sperneris cum consummaveris depraedationem depraedaberis cum fatigatus desiveris contemnere contemneris

33:2 Domine miserere nostri te expectavimus esto brachium eorum in mane et salus nostra in tempore tribulationis

33:3 a voce angeli fugerunt populi ab exaltatione tua dispersae sunt gentes

33:4 et congregabuntur spolia vestra sicut colligitur brucus velut cum fossae plenae fuerint de eo

33:5 magnificatus est Dominus quoniam habitavit in excelso implevit Sion iudicio et iustitia

33:6 et erit fides in temporibus tuis divitiae salutis sapientia et scientia timor Domini ipse thesaurus eius

33:7 ecce videntes clamabunt foris angeli pacis amare flebunt

33:8 dissipatae sunt viae cessavit transiens per semitam irritum factum est pactum proiecit civitates non reputavit homines

33:9 luxit et elanguit terra confusus est Libanus et obsorduit et factus est Saron sicut desertum et concussa est Basan et Carmelus

33:10 nunc consurgam dicit Dominus nunc exaltabor nunc sublevabor

33:11 concipietis ardorem parietis stipulam spiritus vester ut ignis vorabit vos

33:12 et erunt populi quasi de incendio cinis spinae congregatae igni conburentur

33:13 audite qui longe estis quae fecerim et cognoscite vicini fortitudinem meam

33:14 conterriti sunt in Sion peccatores possedit tremor hypocritas quis poterit habitare de vobis cum igne devorante quis habitabit ex vobis cum ardoribus sempiternis

33:15 qui ambulat in iustitiis et loquitur veritates qui proicit avaritiam ex calumnia et excutit manus suas ab omni munere qui obturat aures suas ne audiat sanguinem et claudit oculos suos ne videat malum

33:16 iste in excelsis habitabit munimenta saxorum sublimitas eius panis ei datus est aquae eius fideles sunt

33:17 regem in decore suo videbunt oculi eius cernent terram de longe

33:18 cor tuum meditabitur timorem ubi est litteratus ubi legis verba ponderans ubi doctor parvulorum

33:19 populum inpudentem non videbis populum alti sermonis ita ut non possis intellegere disertitudinem linguae eius in quo nulla est sapientia

33:20 respice Sion civitatem sollemnitatis nostrae oculi tui videbunt Hierusalem habitationem opulentam tabernaculum quod nequaquam transferri poterit nec auferentur clavi eius in sempiternum et omnes funiculi eius non rumpentur

33:21 quia solummodo ibi magnificus Dominus noster locus fluviorum rivi latissimi et patentes non transibit per eum navis remigum neque trieris magna transgredietur eum

33:22 Dominus enim iudex noster Dominus legifer noster Dominus rex noster ipse salvabit nos

33:23 laxati sunt funiculi tui sed non praevalebunt sic erit malus tuus ut dilatare signum non queas tunc dividentur spolia praedarum multarum claudi diripient rapinam

33:24 nec dicet vicinus elangui populus qui habitat in ea auferetur ab eo iniquitas