¹ ¶ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

² We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof;

³ when there, those that carried us away captive asked us for the words of the song; with our harps of joy hung upon the willows saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

⁴ How shall we sing the song of the LORD in the land of strangers?

⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten.

⁶ If I do not remember thee, my tongue shall cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I do not prefer to lift up Jerusalem as my chief joy.

⁷ ¶ Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards thee as thou hast served us.

⁹ Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes thy offspring against the stones.

A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Blessed be the LORD my strength, who trains my hands for the battle and my fingers for the war:

² My mercy and my fortress; my high tower and my deliverer; my shield and he in whom I trust, who subdues my people under me.

³ LORD, what is man that thou knowest him? or the son of man, that thou esteemeth him?

⁴ Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

⁵ Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶ Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out thine arrows and destroy them.

⁷ Send thine hand from above; redeem me and deliver me out of many waters, from the hand of the strange sons,

⁸ whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

⁹ ¶ I will sing a new song unto thee, O God; upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises unto thee.

¹⁰ Thou, he who gives salvation unto kings, who redeems David his slave from the evil sword.

¹¹ Redeem me, and save me from the hand of strange sons, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

¹² That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace;

¹³ that our garners may be full, affording all manner of store; that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets;

¹⁴ that our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in nor going out; that there be no shout of alarm in our streets.

¹⁵ Blessed is that people, that is in such a case; yea, blessed is that people, whose God is the LORD.

¹ ¶ Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty,

² who dost cover thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain,

³ who dost establish his chambers between the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks upon the wings of the wind,

⁴ who makes his angels spirits, his ministers a flaming fire,

⁵ who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved by any age.

⁶ Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

⁷ At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

⁸ The mountains were exposed; they descended through the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

⁹ Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over, that they not turn again to cover the earth.

¹⁰ ¶ Thou art he who sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the mountains.

¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst.

¹² Next to them the fowls of the heavens have their habitation; they sing among the leaves.

¹³ He waters the mountains from his chambers; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

¹⁴ He causes the hay to grow for the cattle and grass for the service of man, that he may bring forth bread out of the earth

¹⁵ and wine that makes glad the heart of man, making his face to shine with oil and bread which sustains man’s heart.

¹⁶ The trees of the LORD are satisfied; the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted,

¹⁷ that the birds may make their nests there: the stork makes her house among the fir trees.

¹⁸ The high mountains are a refuge for the wild goats, and the rocks for the conies.

¹⁹ ¶ He appointed the moon for times and seasons; the sun knows his going down.

²⁰ Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest move.

²¹ The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God.

²² The sun arises, they withdraw and lay themselves down in their dens.

²³ Man goes forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

²⁴ O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom thou hast made them all; the earth is full of thy riches.

²⁵ So is this great and wide sea, wherein are innumerable creeping things, both small and great beasts.

²⁶ There go the ships; there is that leviathan, whom thou didst make to play therein.

²⁷ These wait all upon thee, that thou may give them their food in due season.

²⁸ Thou givest unto them, they gather; thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their spirit, they cease to exist and return to their dust.

³⁰ Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the earth.

³¹ ¶ Let the glory of the LORD endure for ever; let the LORD rejoice in his works.

³² He looks on the earth, and it trembles: he touches the mountains, and they smoke.

³³ I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

³⁴ My meditation of him shall be sweet; I will be glad in the LORD.

³⁵ Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Halelu- JAH (Praise ye the LORD).

5 ¶ Now thou shalt be besieged by armies, O daughter of the army: he shall lay siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

² But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be Lord in Israel; and his goings forth are from the beginning, from the days of the ages.

³ Therefore he will give them up until the time that she who travails has brought forth; then the remnant of his brethren shall return with the sons of Israel.

⁴ And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide; for now he shall be great unto the ends of the earth.

¹⁰ And it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD, that I will cause thy horses to be killed out of the midst of thee, and I will cause thy chariots to be destroyed:

¹¹ and I will cause all the cities of thy land to be destroyed, and I will cause all thy fortresses to be destroyed:

¹² and I will cause the witchcrafts to be destroyed by thy hand; and no more soothsayers shall be found in thee:

¹³ and I will cause thy graven images and thy images to be destroyed out of the midst of thee; and never again shalt thou worship the work of thine hands.

¹⁴ And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee; so will I destroy thy cities.

¹⁵ And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury in the Gentiles who have not heard.

¹³ ¶ And after certain days King Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.

¹⁴ And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul’s cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix,

¹⁵ about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the princes of the priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have vengeance against him.

¹⁶ To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before the one who is accused is face to face with his accusers and is given license to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

¹⁷ Therefore, when they were come here, without any delay on the next day I sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought forth.

¹⁸ Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought no accusation of such things as I supposed,

¹⁹ but had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

²⁰ And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these matters.

²¹ But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept until I might send him to Caesar.

²² Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. Tomorrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.

²³ And the next day when Agrippa was come and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the tribunals and principal men of the city, at Festus’ commandment, Paul was brought forth.

²⁴ Then Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

²⁵ But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

²⁶ Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O King Agrippa, that, after examination, I might have something to write.

²⁷ For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not to signify the crimes laid against him.

¹⁶ No one when they have lighted a lamp cover it with a vessel or put it under a bed, but set it on a lampstand, that those who enter in may see the light.

¹⁷ For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest, neither any thing hid that shall not be known and come to light.

¹⁸ Take heed therefore how ye hear, for whosoever has, to him shall be given; and whosoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have.

¹⁹ Then his mother and his brethren came to him and could not get to him for the crowd.

²⁰ And it was told him by certain who said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand outside, desiring to see thee.

²¹ And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do it.

²² ¶ Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples, and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.

²³ But as they sailed, he fell asleep; and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were being filled with water and were in jeopardy.

²⁴ And they came to him and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and there was a calm.

²⁵ And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they, being afraid, wondered, saying one to another, Who is this! for he even commands the winds and the water, and they obey him.