Formation Journal Reading Plan

3:1 For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;

3:2 the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;

3:3 the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter.

3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;

3:7 in that day shall he lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people.

3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

3:9 The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.

3:10 Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

3:11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.

3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

3:13 Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth to judge the peoples.

3:14 Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:

3:15 what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

3:16 Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;

3:17 therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.

3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, and the cauls, and the crescents;

3:19 the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers;

3:20 the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets;

3:21 the rings, and the nose-jewels;

3:22 the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels;

3:23 the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.

3:24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.

3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

75:1 For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song. We give thanks unto thee, O God; We give thanks, for thy name is near: Men tell of thy wondrous works.

75:2 When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly.

75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it.[Selah

75:4 I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly; And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

75:5 Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck.

75:6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up.

75:7 But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

75:8 For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine foameth; It is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: Surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them.

75:9 But I will declare for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; But the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

10:1 Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:

10:2 yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh

10:4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

10:5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

10:6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.

10:7 Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ’s, so also are we.

10:8 For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

10:9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

10:10 For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

10:11 Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

10:12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

10:13 But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.

10:14 For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ:

10:15 not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto further abundance,

10:16 so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, and not to glory in another’s province in regard of things ready to our hand.

10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.