Formation Journal Reading Plan

23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

23:2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

23:3 On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.

23:4 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”

23:5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

23:6 Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!

23:7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

23:8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

23:9 Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

23:10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

23:11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.

23:12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”

23:13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.

23:14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

23:15 It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.

23:16 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.

23:17 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.

23:18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

85:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

85:2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.

85:3 You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

85:4 Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

85:5 Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

85:6 Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

85:7 Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation.

85:8 I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

85:9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

85:10 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

85:11 Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

85:12 Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

85:13 Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

4:21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.

4:23 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

4:24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

4:25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

4:27 For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break forth and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.”

4:28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

4:29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

4:30 However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”

4:31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.