Formation Journal Reading Plan

1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

1:2 And he said, Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

1:3 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

1:4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

1:5 And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah.

1:6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole people, to deliver them up to Edom.

1:7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

1:8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord Jehovah.

1:9 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole people to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant.

1:10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

1:11 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever.

1:12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

1:13 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

1:14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

1:15 and their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith Jehovah.

2:1 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

2:2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

2:3 and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.

2:4 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk.

2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

2:6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—

2:7 they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the same maiden, to profane my holy name:

2:8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.

2:9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

2:10 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

2:11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.

2:12 But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

2:13 Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.

2:14 And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

2:15 neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself; neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself;

2:16 and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.

16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.

16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the spirits.

16:3 Commit thy works unto Jehovah, And thy purposes shall be established.

16:4 Jehovah hath made everything for its own end; Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

16:5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to Jehovah: Though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for; And by the fear of Jehovah men depart from evil.

16:7 When a man’s ways please Jehovah, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

16:8 Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.

16:9 A man’s heart deviseth his way; But Jehovah directeth his steps.

16:10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; His mouth shall not transgress in judgment.

16:11 A just balance and scales are Jehovah’s; All the weights of the bag are his work.

16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; For the throne is established by righteousness.

16:13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; And they love him that speaketh right.

16:14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death; But a wise man will pacify it.

16:15 In the light of the king’s countenance is life; And his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.

16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.

16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

2:1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:

2:2 I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;

2:3 and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name’s sake, and hast not grown weary.

2:4 But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.

2:5 Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent.

2:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.