Formation Journal Reading Plan

13:1 Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.

13:2 So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my waist.

13:3 The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying,

13:4 Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.

13:5 So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.

13:6 It happened after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.

13:7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

13:8 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

13:9 Thus says Yahweh, In this way I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

13:10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

13:11 For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

13:12 Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

13:13 Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

13:14 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

13:15 Hear, and give ear; don’t be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.

13:16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

13:17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock is taken captive.

13:18 Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.

13:19 The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.

13:20 Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?

13:21 What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?

13:22 If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.

13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

13:24 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.

13:25 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

13:26 Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear.

13:27 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

113:1 Praise Yah! Praise, you servants of Yahweh, praise the name of Yahweh.

113:2 Blessed be the name of Yahweh, from this time forth and forevermore.

113:3 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, Yahweh’s name is to be praised.

113:4 Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

113:5 Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,

113:6 Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

113:7 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

113:8 that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

113:9 He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

2:1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you

2:2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.

2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

2:4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

2:5 Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

2:6 Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.

2:8 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

2:9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

2:10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2:11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

2:12 that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.