Formation Journal Reading Plan

30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

30:2 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

30:3 For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

30:4 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

30:5 For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

30:6 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

30:8 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;

30:9 but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

30:10 Therefore don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

30:11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.

30:12 For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.

30:13 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.

30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don’t seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

30:15 Why do you cry for your hurt? Your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

30:16 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.

30:17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

30:18 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited in its own way.

30:19 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

30:20 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them.

30:21 Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from their midst; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh.

30:22 You shall be my people, and I will be your God.

30:23 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, his wrath, has gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

30:24 The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.

119:65 Do good to your servant, according to your word, Yahweh.

119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

119:67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

119:68 You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.

119:69 The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

119:70 Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

119:72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. YUD

119:73 Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

119:74 Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

119:75 Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

119:76 Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.

119:77 Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

119:78 Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

119:79 Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes.

119:80 Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAF

119:81 My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

119:82 My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

119:83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

119:84 How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?

119:85 The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

119:86 All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

119:87 They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.

119:88 Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. LAMED

119:89 Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.

119:90 Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.

119:91 Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.

119:92 Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

119:93 I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

119:94 I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

119:95 The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

119:96 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

1:2 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

1:3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

1:4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

1:5 having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

1:6 For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

1:7 For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

1:8 Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

1:9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

1:10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

1:11 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

1:12 For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

1:13 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

1:14 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

1:15 This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

1:16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

1:17 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me

1:18 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.