Formation Journal Reading Plan

2:1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

2:2 He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

2:3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

2:4 I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

2:5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

2:7 “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

2:8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

2:9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

2:10 Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

3:1 The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,

3:2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”

3:3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.

3:4 Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

3:5 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.

3:6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

3:7 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

3:8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

3:9 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

3:10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

19:16 He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

19:17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

19:18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

19:19 A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

19:20 Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

19:21 There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

19:22 That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

19:23 The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

19:24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

19:25 Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

19:26 He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

19:27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

19:28 A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

19:29 Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

4:1 After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

4:2 Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

4:3 that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.

4:4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

4:5 Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

4:6 Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

4:7 The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.

4:8 The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”

4:9 When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,

4:10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,

4:11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”