Formation Journal Reading Plan

17:1 The burden of Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

17:3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.

17:4 “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

17:5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

17:6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

17:7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

17:8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

17:9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

17:10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

17:11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

17:12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

17:13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

17:14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

82:1 A Psalm by Asaph. God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

82:2 “How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.

82:3 “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

82:4 Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

82:5 They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

82:6 I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

82:7 Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”

82:8 Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.

3:1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?

3:2 I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

3:4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

3:5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

3:6 Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

3:7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

3:8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

3:9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

3:11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

3:12 The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

3:14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.