Formation Journal Reading Plan

14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.

14:2 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

14:3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

14:4 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;

14:5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

14:6 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

14:7 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:

14:8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

14:9 If the prophet is deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

14:10 They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;

14:11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.

14:12 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

14:13 Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;

14:14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.

14:15 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;

14:16 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.

14:17 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;

14:18 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.

14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;

14:20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

14:21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!

14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.

14:23 They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.

15:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

15:2 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?

15:3 Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and its midst is burned: is it profitable for any work?

15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work!

15:6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15:7 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.

15:8 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.

141:1 A Psalm by David. Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.

141:2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

141:3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

141:4 Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

141:5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

141:6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

141:7 “As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

141:8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.

141:9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

141:10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by.

12:14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

12:15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

12:16 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

12:17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

12:18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

12:19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

12:20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;”

12:21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”

12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

12:23 to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

12:24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

12:25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

12:26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”

12:27 This phrase, “Yet once more,” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

12:28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

12:29 for our God is a consuming fire.