Simon reads the Bible

Ezekiel 5 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  “And now, son of man, take a large clay brick and set it down in front of you. Then draw a map of the city of Jerusalem on it.  2  Show the city under siege. Build a wall around it so no one can escape. Set up the enemy camp, and surround the city with siege ramps and battering rams.  3  Then take an iron griddle and place it between you and the cit...

Ezekiel 4 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  “And now, son of man, take a large clay brick and set it down in front of you. Then draw a map of the city of Jerusalem on it.  2  Show the city under siege. Build a wall around it so no one can escape. Set up the enemy camp, and surround the city with siege ramps and battering rams.  3  Then take an iron griddle and place it between you and the cit...

Ezekiel 3 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  The voice said to me, “Son of man, eat what I am giving you—eat this scroll! Then go and give its message to the people of Israel.”  2  So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.  3  “Fill your stomach with this,” he said. And when I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth. 4  Then he said, “Son of man, go to the people of Israel and gi...

Ezekiel 2 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  “Stand up, son of man,” said the voice. “I want to speak with you.”  2  The Spirit came into me as he spoke, and he set me on my feet. I listened carefully to his words.  3  “Son of man,” he said, “I am sending you to the nation of Israel, a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have been rebelling against me to th...

Ezekiel 1 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  On July 31 of my thirtieth year, while I was with the Judean exiles beside the Kebar River in Babylon, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.  2  This happened during the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity.  3  (The Lord gave this message to Ezekiel son of Buzi, a priest, beside the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians, and h...

Jeremiah 52 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.  2  But Zedekiah did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, just as Jehoiakim had done.  3  These things happened because of the Lord’s anger against the people of Jerusalem and Judah, until he...

Jeremiah 51 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  This is what the Lord says: “I will stir up a destroyer against Babylon     and the people of Babylonia. 2  Foreigners will come and winnow her,     blowing her away as chaff. They will come from every side     to rise against her in her day of trouble. 3  Don’t let the archers put on their armor     or draw their bows. Don’t spare even her best s...

Jeremiah 50 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  The Lord gave Jeremiah the prophet this message concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians.  2  This is what the Lord says: “Tell the whole world,     and keep nothing back. Raise a signal flag     to tell everyone that Babylon will fall! Her images and idols will be shattered.     Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced. 3  For...

Jeremiah 49 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  This message was given concerning the Ammonites. This is what the Lord says: “Are there no descendants of Israel     to inherit the land of Gad? Why are you, who worship Molech,     living in its towns? 2  In the days to come,” says the Lord,     “I will sound the battle cry against your city of Rabbah. It will become a desolate heap of ruins,    ...

Jeremiah 48 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  This message was given concerning Moab. This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “What sorrow awaits the city of Nebo;     it will soon lie in ruins. The city of Kiriathaim will be humiliated and captured;     the fortress will be humiliated and broken down. 2  No one will ever brag about Moab again,     for in Heshbon th...

Jeremiah 47 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  This is the Lord’s message to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines of Gaza, before it was captured by the Egyptian army.  2  This is what the Lord says: “A flood is coming from the north     to overflow the land. It will destroy the land and everything in it—     cities and people alike. People will scream in terror,     and everyone in...

Jeremiah 46 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  The following messages were given to Jeremiah the prophet from the Lord concerning foreign nations. 2  This message concerning Egypt was given in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, the king of Judah, on the occasion of the battle of Carchemish when Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, and his army were defeated beside the Euphrates R...

Jeremiah 44 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  This is the message Jeremiah received concerning the Judeans living in northern Egypt in the cities of Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in southern Egypt as well:  2  “This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: You saw the calamity I brought on Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah. They now lie deserted and in ruins.  3 ...

Jeremiah 43 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  When Jeremiah had finished giving this message from the Lord their God to all the people,  2  Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other proud men said to Jeremiah, “You lie! The Lord our God hasn’t forbidden us to go to Egypt!  3  Baruch son of Neriah has convinced you to say this, because he wants us to stay here and be...

Jeremiah 42 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  Then all the military leaders, including Johanan son of Kareah and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, approached  2  Jeremiah the prophet. They said, “Please pray to the Lord your God for us. As you can see, we are only a tiny remnant compared to what we were before.  3  Pray that the Lord your God will s...

Jeremiah 41 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 But in midautumn of that year, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and had been one of the king’s high officials, went to Mizpah with ten men to meet Gedaliah. While they were eating together,  2  Ishmael and his ten men suddenly jumped up, drew their swords, and killed Gedaliah, whom the king of...

Jeremiah 40 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 The Lord gave a message to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had released him at Ramah. He had found Jeremiah bound in chains among all the other captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being sent to exile in Babylon. 2  The captain of the guard called for Jeremiah and said, “The Lord your God has brought this disaster on this...

Jeremiah 39 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 In January of the ninth year of King Zedekiah’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came with his entire army to besiege Jerusalem.  2  Two and a half years later, on July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, a section of the city wall was broken down.  3  All the officers of the Babylonian army came in and sat in triumph at the Middle Ga...

Jeremiah 30 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malkijah heard what Jeremiah had been telling the people. He had been saying,  2  “This is what the Lord says: ‘Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, famine, or disease, but those who surrender to the Babylonians will live. Their reward...

Jeremiah 37 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 Zedekiah son of Josiah succeeded Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim as the king of Judah. He was appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.  2  But neither King Zedekiah nor his attendants nor the people who were left in the land listened to what the Lord said through Jeremiah. 3  Nevertheless, King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah...

Jeremiah 36 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 During the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king in Judah, the Lord gave this message to Jeremiah:  2  “Get a scroll, and write down all my messages against Israel, Judah, and the other nations. Begin with the first message back in the days of Josiah, and write down every message, right up to the present time.  3  Perhaps the people of...

Jeremiah 35 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 This is the message the Lord gave Jeremiah when Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah:  2  “Go to the settlement where the families of the Recabites live, and invite them to the Lord’s Temple. Take them into one of the inner rooms, and offer them some wine.” 3  So I went to see Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah and grandson of Habazziniah and all his b...

Jeremiah 34 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came with all the armies from the kingdoms he ruled, and he fought against Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. At that time this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord:  2  “Go to King Zedekiah of Judah, and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babyl...

Jeremiah 33 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the Lord gave him this second message:  2  “This is what the Lord says—the Lord who made the earth, who formed and established it, whose name is the Lord:  3  Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.  4  For this is what the Lord, the God of...

Jeremiah 32 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 The following message came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah. This was also the eighteenth year of the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar.  2  Jerusalem was then under siege from the Babylonian army, and Jeremiah was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace.  3  King Zedekiah had put h...