Formation Journal Reading Plan

40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah’s hand double for all her sins.

40:3 The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God.

40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:

40:5 and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

40:6 The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.

40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.

40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

40:9 O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!

40:10 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

40:11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that have their young.

40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

40:14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?

40:15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.

40:17 All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

40:19 The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.

40:20 He that is too impoverished for such an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.

40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

40:22 It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

40:23 that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

40:24 Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him? saith the Holy One.

40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice due to me is passed away from my God?

40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.

40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.

40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

40:31 but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;

94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.

94:14 For Jehovah will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

94:15 For judgment shall return unto righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow it.

94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

94:17 Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

94:18 When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul.

94:20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?

94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.

94:22 But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.

94:23 And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.

4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

4:18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

4:19 who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

4:20 But ye did not so learn Christ;

4:21 if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

4:22 that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

4:23 and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

4:24 and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

4:25 Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

4:27 neither give place to the devil.

4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

4:29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

4:30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

4:32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.