Formation Journal Reading Plan

13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

13:2 Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

13:3 I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle.

13:5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

13:6 Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

13:7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:

13:8 and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame.

13:9 Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.

13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

13:12 I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.

13:13 Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

13:14 And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.

13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.

13:16 Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

13:18 And their bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.

13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

13:22 And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

80:1 For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest above the cherubim, shine forth.

80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us.

80:3 Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

80:4 O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

80:5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.

80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.

1:11 For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.

1:12 For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

1:13 For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:

1:14 and I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

1:15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

1:16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:

1:17 neither went I up to Jerusalem to them that were apostles before me: but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned unto Damascus.

1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and tarried with him fifteen days.

1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.

1:20 Now touching the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

1:21 Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

1:22 And I was still unknown by face unto the churches of Judæa which were in Christ:

1:23 but they only heard say, He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;

1:24 and they glorified God in me.