Formation Journal Reading Plan

62:1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth.

62:2 And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name.

62:3 Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

62:4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

62:5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah’s remembrancers, take ye no rest,

62:7 and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

62:8 Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:

62:9 but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.

62:10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.

62:11 Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

62:12 And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

63:1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

63:2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?

63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yea, I trod them in mine anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.

63:4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my wrath, it upheld me.

63:6 And I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

63:7 I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah, and the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

63:8 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their Saviour.

63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

63:10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?

63:12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

63:13 that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not?

63:14 As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.

63:16 For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name.

63:17 O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

63:18 Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

63:19 We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.

105:1 Oh give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; Make known among the peoples his doings.

105:2 Sing unto him, sing praises unto him; Talk ye of all his marvellous works.

105:3 Glory ye in his holy name: Let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.

105:4 Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.

105:5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

105:6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

105:7 He is Jehovah our God: His judgments are in all the earth.

105:8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

105:9 The covenant which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,

105:10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,

105:11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;

105:12 When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

105:13 And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.

105:14 He suffered no man to do them wrong; Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,

105:15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.

105:16 And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.

105:17 He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:

105:18 His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in chains of iron,

105:19 Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of Jehovah tried him.

105:20 The king sent and loosed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

105:21 He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all his substance;

105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure, And teach his elders wisdom.

1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church;

1:25 whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,

1:26 even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,

1:27 to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

1:28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

1:29 whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

2:1 For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

2:2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ,

2:3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

2:4 This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

2:5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.