Formation Journal Reading Plan

10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;

10:2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

10:4 They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

10:5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!

10:6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

10:8 For he saith, Are not my princes all of them kings?

10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

10:11 shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

10:13 For he hath said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down them that sit on thrones:

10:14 and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.

10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up him that is not wood.

10:16 Therefore will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.

10:17 And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

10:18 And he will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.

10:19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.

10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

10:21 A remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

10:22 For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

10:23 For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.

10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian, though he smite thee with the rod, and lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against thee shall be accomplished, and mine anger shall be directed to his destruction.

10:26 And Jehovah of hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.

10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage;

10:29 they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

10:30 Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth!

10:31 Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

10:32 This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

10:33 Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low.

10:34 And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

78:32 For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.

78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.

78:34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.

78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.

78:36 But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.

78:37 For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.

78:38 But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.

78:39 And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

78:40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!

78:41 And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.

78:42 They remembered not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

78:43 How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,

78:44 And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

78:45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.

78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.

78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost.

78:48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.

78:50 He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

78:51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

78:52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

78:53 And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.

78:55 He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

78:56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

78:57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

78:59 When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;

78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary’s hand.

78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance.

78:63 Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.

78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.

78:65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

78:66 And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.

78:67 Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,

78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.

78:69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.

78:70 He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:

78:71 From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

78:72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word be established.

13:2 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

13:3 seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:

13:4 for he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.

13:5 Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.

13:6 But I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate.

13:7 Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is honorable, though we be as reprobate.

13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

13:9 For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

13:10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

13:12 Salute one another with a holy kiss.

13:13 All the saints salute you.

13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.