Formation Journal Reading Plan

13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:

13:2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

13:3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

13:4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.

13:5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

13:6 Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

13:7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.

13:8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

13:9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

13:10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

13:11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.

13:12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

13:13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, and in the day of his fierce anger.

13:14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

13:15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

13:16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

13:18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

13:19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

13:20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

13:21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.

13:22 Wolves will cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.

80:1 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.

80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!

80:3 Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

80:4 Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

80:5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

80:6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

1:11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

1:12 For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

1:13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

1:14 I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

1:15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

1:16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

1:17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

1:19 But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord’s brother.

1:20 Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

1:21 Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

1:22 I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

1:23 but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”

1:24 And they glorified God in me.