Formation Journal Reading Plan

21:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

21:2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

21:3 and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

21:5 and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

21:6 Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes.

21:7 It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.

21:8 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

21:10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.

21:11 It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.

21:12 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.

21:13 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.

21:14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms.

21:15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.

21:16 Gather yourselves together, go to the right, set yourselves in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.

21:17 I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

21:18 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,

21:19 Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

21:20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

21:22 In his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.

21:23 It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

21:24 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.

21:25 You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

21:26 thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this shall be no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.

21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

21:28 You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;

21:29 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

21:30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.

21:31 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

21:32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered no more: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

145:1 A praise psalm by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.

145:2 Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever.

145:3 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

145:4 One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

145:5 Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate.

145:6 Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness.

145:7 They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.

145:8 Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

145:9 Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

145:10 All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you.

145:11 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power;

145:12 to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.

145:13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.

2:1 My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

2:2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;

2:3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool;”

2:4 haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

2:6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

2:7 Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

2:8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

2:11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

2:12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

2:13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.