Formation Journal Reading Plan

38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto Jehovah,

38:3 and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

38:4 Then came the word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying,

38:5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.

38:7 And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:

38:8 behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.

38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.

38:10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

38:11 I said, I shall not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

38:12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

38:13 I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

38:14 Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

38:15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

38:16 O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.

38:17 Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

38:18 For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.

38:20 Jehovah is ready to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.

38:21 Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.

38:22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?

39:1 At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

39:2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.

39:3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.

39:4 Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.

39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah of hosts:

39:6 Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.

39:7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

39:8 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

94:1 O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.

94:2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: Render to the proud their desert.

94:3 Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?

94:4 They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

94:5 They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.

94:6 They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

94:7 And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.

94:8 Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?

94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

94:10 He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct, Even he that teacheth man knowledge?

94:11 Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.

4:1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,

4:2 with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

4:3 giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

4:6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

4:7 But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, And gave gifts unto men.

4:9 (Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

4:11 And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

4:12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

4:13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

4:14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

4:15 but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;

4:16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.