Formation Journal Reading Plan

9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near unto me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

9:3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

9:4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening oblation.

9:5 And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe rent; and I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God;

9:6 and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.

9:7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

9:8 And now for a little moment grace hath been showed from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

9:9 For we are bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended lovingkindness unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

9:10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

9:11 which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness:

9:12 now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

9:13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such a remnant,

9:14 shall we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

9:15 O Jehovah, the God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our guiltiness; for none can stand before thee because of this.

33:10 Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

33:11 The counsel of Jehovah standeth fast for ever, The thoughts of his heart to all generations.

33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

33:13 Jehovah looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men;

33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh forth Upon all the inhabitants of the earth,

33:15 He that fashioneth the hearts of them all, That considereth all their works.

33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

33:17 A horse is a vain thing for safety; Neither doth he deliver any by his great power.

33:18 Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his lovingkindness;

33:19 To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.

33:20 Our soul hath waited for Jehovah: He is our help and our shield.

33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, Because we have trusted in his holy name.

33:22 Let thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, According as we have hoped in thee.

2:17 But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

2:18 and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

2:19 and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

2:21 thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

2:22 thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?

2:23 thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?

2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.

2:25 For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

2:26 If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?

2:27 and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

2:29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.