Formation Journal Reading Plan

4:1 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

4:2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

4:3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4:4 Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

4:5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

4:6 Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.

4:7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

4:8 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

4:9 Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

4:10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.

4:11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.

4:12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

4:13 Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.

4:14 Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

4:15 Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.

4:16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

4:17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

136:1 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.

136:2 Give thanks to the God of gods; for his loving kindness endures forever.

136:3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords; for his loving kindness endures forever:

136:4 To him who alone does great wonders; for his loving kindness endures forever:

136:5 To him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever:

136:6 To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

136:7 To him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever:

136:8 The sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever;

136:9 The moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever:

8:1 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

8:2 a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

8:3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

8:4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

8:5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

8:6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

8:8 For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come,” says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

8:9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

8:11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.

8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”

8:13 In that he says, “A new covenant,” he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.