Formation Journal Reading Plan

2:1 Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish’s belly.

2:2 And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice.

2:3 For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me.

2:4 And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

2:5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.

2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

2:7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.

2:8 They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.

2:10 And Jehovah spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

3:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

3:2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

3:3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days’ journey.

3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

3:5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

3:6 And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

3:7 And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

3:8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

3:9 Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.

19:16 He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his soul; But he that is careless of his ways shall die.

19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto Jehovah, And his good deed will he pay him again.

19:18 Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.

19:19 A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.

19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

19:21 There are many devices in a man’s heart; But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.

19:22 That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness; And a poor man is better than a liar.

19:23 The fear of Jehovah tendeth to life; And he that hath it shall abide satisfied; He shall not be visited with evil.

19:24 The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

19:25 Smite a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; And reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

19:26 He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

19:27 Cease, my son, to hear instruction Only to err from the words of knowledge.

19:28 A worthless witness mocketh at justice; And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.

19:29 Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.

4:1 After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter.

4:2 Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;

4:3 and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.

4:4 And round about the throne were four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold.

4:5 And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;

4:6 and before the throne, as it were a sea of glass like unto crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

4:7 And the first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.

4:8 And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.

4:9 And when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth for ever and ever,

4:10 the four and twenty elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

4:11 Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.