Formation Journal Reading Plan

11:1 “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

11:2 They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

11:3 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn’t know that I healed them.

11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.

11:5 “They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.

11:6 The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.

11:7 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

11:8 “How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; and I will not come in wrath.

11:10 They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

11:11 They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.

11:12 Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.

12:1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

12:2 Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.

12:3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.

12:4 Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

12:5 even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown!

12:6 Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

12:7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

12:8 Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

12:9 “But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

12:10 I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.

12:11 If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.

12:12 Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

12:13 By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

12:14 Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.

14:1 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

14:2 He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

14:3 The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

14:5 A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

14:6 A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

14:7 Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

14:9 Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

14:10 The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

14:11 The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

14:12 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

14:13 Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

14:14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

14:15 A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

14:16 A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.

14:17 He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

14:18 The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

1:1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

1:2 Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

1:3 Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

1:4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

1:5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

1:6 Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

1:8 Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

1:9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

1:10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

1:11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

1:12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

1:13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

1:14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

1:15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

1:16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.