Formation Journal Reading Plan

24:1 Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

24:2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

24:3 Then Yahweh said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.

24:4 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

24:5 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

24:6 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

24:7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

24:8 As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,

24:9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

24:10 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

118:1 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

118:2 Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever.

118:3 Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever.

118:4 Now let those who fear Yahweh say that his loving kindness endures forever.

118:5 Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

118:6 Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

118:7 Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.

118:8 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.

118:9 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in princes.

118:10 All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of Yahweh, I cut them off.

118:11 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I indeed cut them off.

118:12 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

118:13 You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

118:14 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.

118:15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.

118:16 The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!”

118:17 I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

118:18 Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

5:1 Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

5:2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

5:3 Honor widows who are widows indeed.

5:4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

5:5 Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

5:6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

5:7 Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.

5:8 But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

5:9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

5:10 being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

5:11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

5:12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

5:13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

5:14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

5:15 For already some have turned aside after Satan.

5:16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.