Formation Journal Reading Plan

33:1 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, you will be betrayed.

33:2 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

33:3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.

33:4 Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

33:5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

33:6 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

33:7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

33:8 The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.

33:9 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

33:10 “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

33:11 You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

33:12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

33:13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”

33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

33:15 He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

33:16 he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

33:17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.

33:18 Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

33:19 You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.

33:20 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

33:21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there.

33:22 For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

33:23 Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil was divided. The lame took the prey.

33:24 The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.

90:1 A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

90:3 You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

90:5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

90:6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

90:7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

90:9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

90:10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

90:11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

90:13 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

90:14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

90:15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

90:16 Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.

90:17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

2:2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

2:3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

2:6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

2:7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

2:8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

2:9 not of works, that no one would boast.

2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.