The Bible Reading Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 22

¹⁸The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; ¹⁹and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

²⁰But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady; ²¹then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

²²If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

²³If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; ²⁴then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

²⁵But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die: ²⁶but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter; ²⁷for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.

²⁸If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; ²⁹then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

³⁰A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

Jonah Chapter 1

¹Now the word of ForeverOne came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, ²"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me." ³But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of ForeverOne. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of ForeverOne.

⁴But ForeverOne sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

⁵Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his gods. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

⁶So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won't perish." ⁷They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

⁸Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?" ⁹He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear ForeverOne, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land." ¹⁰Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of ForeverOne, because he had told them.

¹¹Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more stormy.

¹²He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you." ¹³Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

¹⁴Therefore they cried to ForeverOne, and said, "We beg you, ForeverOne, we beg you, don't let us die for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, ForeverOne, have done as it pleased you." ¹⁵So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

¹⁶Then the men feared ForeverOne exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to ForeverOne, and made vows.

¹⁷ForeverOne prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah Chapter 2

¹Then Jonah prayed to ForeverOne, his God, out of the fish's belly.

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

³For 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.

⁴I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.' ⁵The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

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

⁷"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered ForeverOne. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

⁸Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

⁹But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation belongs to ForeverOne." ¹⁰ForeverOne spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

Lamentations Chapter 4

¹⁸They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end has come.

¹⁹Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They hotly-pursued us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

²⁰The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of ForeverOne, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

²¹Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.

²²The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.

Lamentations Chapter 5

¹Remember, ForeverOne, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

³We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

⁴We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

⁵Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

⁸Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

¹³The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

¹⁶The crown has fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.

¹⁷For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; ¹⁸For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.

¹⁹You, ForeverOne, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.

²⁰Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?

²¹Turn us to yourself, ForeverOne, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.

²²But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

Jude

¹⁴About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, ForeverOne came with ten thousands of his holy ones, ¹⁵to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their actions of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." ¹⁶These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts and their mouth speaks proud things, showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

¹⁷But you, dear-ones, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus AnointedOne.

¹⁸They said to you, "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts." ¹⁹These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

²⁰But you, dear-ones, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

²¹Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus AnointedOne to eternal life.

²²On some have compassion, making a distinction, ²³and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

²⁴Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy, ²⁵to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.