Formation Journal Reading Plan

61:1 The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

61:2 to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

61:3 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

61:4 They shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

61:5 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

61:6 But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men will call you the ministers of our God: you will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their glory.

61:7 Instead of your shame you shall have double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be to them.

61:8 “For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

61:9 Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed.”

61:10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

61:11 For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

104:20 You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

104:21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

104:22 The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

104:23 Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.

104:24 Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

104:25 There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

104:26 There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

104:27 These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

104:28 You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

104:29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

104:30 You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

104:31 Let the glory of Yahweh endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.

104:32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

104:33 I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

104:34 Let your meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

104:35 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!

1:15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

1:16 For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

1:17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

1:18 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

1:19 For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;

1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

1:21 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

1:22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,

1:23 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.