Formation Journal Reading Plan

65:1 “I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

65:3 a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

65:4 who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

65:5 who say, Stand by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.

65:6 “Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,

65:7 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,” says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.”

65:8 Thus says Yahweh, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

65:9 I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

65:10 Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

65:11 “But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;

65:12 I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer; when I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

65:13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed;

65:14 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit.

65:15 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:

65:16 so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.

65:17 “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

65:18 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

65:19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.

65:20 “There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

65:21 They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

65:23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.

65:24 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

106:1 Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

106:2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise?

106:3 Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

106:4 Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,

106:5 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

106:6 We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

106:7 Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

106:8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

106:10 He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

106:11 The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

106:12 Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

106:13 They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

106:14 but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

106:15 He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

106:18 A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

106:19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.

106:20 Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.

106:21 They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.

106:23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

3:1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

3:2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

3:3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

3:4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

3:5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

3:6 for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

3:7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

3:8 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

3:9 Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

3:10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

3:11 where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

3:12 Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

3:13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

3:14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

3:17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.