The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for August 5:

First, Leviticus Chapter 26 verses 1 to 17. Follow that by reading from Isaiah Chapter 63 verse 7 to Chapter 64 verse 12. The third part is Psalm 41 and 42; and lastly Acts Chapter 27 verses 21 to 38

You can read the passages below. If you're looking to read for a different day or want to use your own Bible, then here's the entire year's plan as a list. Enjoy!

Section 1

Leviticus 26:1-17

17 verses

Leviticus Chapter 26

¹"'Don't make any idols for yourselves, and don't raise up a carved image or a pillar, don't place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.

²"'Keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

³"'If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them, ⁴then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. ⁵Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. Eat your bread to the full, and live in your land safely.

⁶"'I will give peace in the land, and you'll lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals from the land, nor will the sword go through your land. ⁷You'll pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword. ⁸Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue myriads; and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

⁹"'I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. ¹⁰You will eat old supplies long kept, and you will move out the old because of the new. ¹¹I will set my tent among you, and my soul won't abhor you. ¹²I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people. ¹³I am Yahweh your God, who brought you here from the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

¹⁴"'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments, ¹⁵and if you reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, ¹⁶I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. ¹⁷I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

Section 2

Isaiah 63:7-64:12

25 verses

Isaiah Chapter 63

⁷I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh, [and] the praises of Yahweh, exactly as Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. ⁸For he said, "Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely:" so he was their Savior. ⁹In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old. ¹⁰But they rebelled, and grieved his Holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them. ¹¹Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his Holy Spirit in the midst of them? ¹²who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? ¹³who led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn't stumble? ¹⁴As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused them to rest; so you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name. ¹⁵Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me. ¹⁶For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. ¹⁷O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. ¹⁸Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. ¹⁹We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.

Isaiah Chapter 64

¹Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence, ²as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! ³When you did awesome things which we didn't look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. ⁴For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him. ⁵You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved? ⁶For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. ⁷There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. ⁸But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. ⁹Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people. ¹⁰Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. ¹¹Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. ¹²Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very severely?

Section 3

Psalm 41-42

26 verses

Psalm 41

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

¹Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. ²Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies. ³Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness. ⁴I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you." ⁵My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?" ⁶If he comes to see [me], he speaks emptiness. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. ⁷All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. ⁸"An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more." ⁹Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁰But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them. ¹¹By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't triumph over me. ¹²As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. ¹³Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Absolutely and Absolutely.

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Psalm 42

[BOOK 2]

For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.

¹As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. ²My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? ³My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" ⁴These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God's house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day. ⁵Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence. ⁶My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar. ⁷Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me. ⁸Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life. ⁹I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" ¹⁰As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" ¹¹Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

Section 4

Acts 27:21-38

18 verses

Acts Chapter 27

²¹When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete and get this injury and damage. ²²Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. ²³For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve, ²⁴saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.' ²⁵Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me. ²⁶But we must run aground on a certain island."

²⁷But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land. ²⁸They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms. ²⁹Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight. ³⁰As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow, ³¹Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can't be saved." ³²Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

³³While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "This is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing. ³⁴So I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads." ³⁵When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, then he broke it and began to eat. ³⁶Then they all cheered up, and they also took food. ³⁷In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship. ³⁸When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

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