Formation Journal Reading Plan

17:1 The burden of Damascus.Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

17:3 And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.

17:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing grain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

17:6 Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.

17:7 In that day shall men look unto their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

17:8 And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.

17:9 In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.

17:10 For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips.

17:11 In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

17:12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

17:14 At eventide, behold, terror; and before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

82:1 A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of God; He judgeth among the gods.

82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? [Selah

82:3 Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

82:4 Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

82:5 They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

82:6 I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High.

82:7 Nevertheless ye shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.

82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; For thou shalt inherit all the nations.

3:1 O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

3:2 This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

3:4 Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

3:5 He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

3:7 Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the nations be blessed.

3:9 So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

3:11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

3:12 and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

3:14 that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.