Formation Journal Reading Plan

62:1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.

62:2 The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.

62:3 You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

62:4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.

62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

62:6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

62:7 and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

62:8 Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:

62:9 but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”

62:10 Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Cast up, cast up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

62:11 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.’”

62:12 They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

63:1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

63:2 Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?

63:3 “I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

63:4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.

63:5 I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.

63:6 I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

63:7 I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

63:8 For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely:” so he was their Savior.

63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

63:10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy Spirit in their midst?

63:12 who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

63:13 who led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble?

63:14 As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused them to rest; so you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name.

63:15 Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

63:16 For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

63:17 O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

63:18 Your holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

63:19 We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.

105:1 Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

105:2 Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

105:3 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

105:4 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

105:5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

105:6 you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

105:7 He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

105:8 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

105:9 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

105:10 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

105:11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;”

105:12 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

105:13 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

105:14 He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

105:15 “Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

105:16 He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

105:17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

105:18 They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

105:19 until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true.

105:20 The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

105:21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

105:22 to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;

1:25 of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

1:26 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

1:27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

1:28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

1:29 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

2:1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

2:2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

2:3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

2:4 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

2:5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.