Formation Journal Reading Plan

6:1 Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

6:2 Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah’s controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

6:3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

6:4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

6:5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him; remember from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of Jehovah.

6:6 Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?

6:7 will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

6:8 He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

6:9 The voice of Jehovah crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

6:10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?

6:11 Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

6:13 Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.

6:14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt put away, but shalt not save; and that which thou savest will I give up to the sword.

6:15 Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink the wine.

6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

22:1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, And loving favor rather than silver and gold.

22:2 The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.

22:3 A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

22:4 The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah Is riches, and honor, and life.

22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.

22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

22:7 The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.

22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he giveth of his bread to the poor.

22:10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

22:11 He that loveth pureness of heart, For the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.

22:12 The eyes of Jehovah preserve him that hath knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.

22:13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.

22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

22:15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

22:16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain, And he that giveth to the rich, shall come only to want.

9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.

9:2 And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

9:3 And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

9:4 And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads.

9:5 And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man.

9:6 And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.

9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men’s faces.

9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war.

9:10 And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.

9:11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek tongue he hath the name Apollyon.

9:12 The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes hereafter.

9:13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

9:14 one saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.

9:15 And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.

9:16 And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: I heard the number of them.

9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates as of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone: and the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceedeth fire and smoke and brimstone.

9:18 By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths.

9:19 For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.

9:20 And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:

9:21 and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.