Formation Journal Reading Plan

3:1 I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

3:2 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

3:3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

3:4 Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

3:5 Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

3:6 “Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

3:7 The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.”

3:8 But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

3:9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

3:11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.”

3:12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

21:1 The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

21:4 A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

21:5 The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

21:6 Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

21:7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

21:8 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

21:9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

21:10 The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

21:11 When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

21:12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

21:13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

21:14 A gift in secret pacifies anger; and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.

21:15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

7:9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

7:10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

7:11 All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God,

7:12 saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

7:13 One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?”

7:14 I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

7:15 Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.

7:16 They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat;

7:17 for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”