Book of Common Prayer
MEM.
97 ¶ O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
98 ¶ Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies, for they are eternal unto me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies have been my meditation.
100 I understand more than the elders because I keep thy precepts.
101 ¶ I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
102 ¶ I have not departed from thy judgments, for thou hast taught me.
103 ¶ How sweet have been thy spoken words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through thy precepts I have obtained understanding; therefore I have hated every false way.
NUN.
105 ¶ Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my way.
106 ¶ I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep the judgments of thy righteousness.
107 ¶ I am afflicted very much; cause me to live, O LORD, according to thy word.
108 ¶ Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
109 ¶ My soul is continually in my hand; yet I do not forget thy law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me; yet did not I err from thy precepts.
111 ¶ I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes always, even unto the end.
SAMECH.
113 ¶ I hate vain thoughts; but I love thy law.
114 ¶ Thou art my hiding place and my shield; I have waited for thy word.
115 ¶ Depart from me, ye evildoers; for I will keep the commandments of my God.
116 ¶ Uphold me according unto thy word, and I shall live; and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
117 Hold me up, and I shall be saved, and I shall delight in thy statutes continually.
118 ¶ Thou hast trodden down all those that err from thy statutes; for their deceit is falsehood.
119 Thou dost cause all the wicked of the earth to come undone like dross; therefore I have loved thy testimonies.
120 My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.
To the Overcomer upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.
1 ¶ Sing aloud unto God our strength; make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take the song and play the timbrel, the harp of joy with the psaltery.
3 Blow the shofar in the new moon in the time appointed on our solemn feast day.
4 For this is a statute of Israel and an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt where I heard a language that I did not understand.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from working with clay.
7 Thou didst call in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8 ¶ Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me,
9 no strange god shall be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10 I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people did not hearken to my voice, and Israel did not love me.
12 So I gave them up unto the hardness of their heart, and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh, if my people would hearken unto me and Israel would walk in my ways!
14 I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD would have submitted themselves unto him, and their time would endure for ever.
16 And God would have fed them also the finest of the wheat, and with honey out of the rock I would have satisfied thee.
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 ¶ God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Do right concerning the poor and fatherless; do justice to the poor and destitute.
4 Deliver the poor and destitute; deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They do not know, neither do they understand; they walk in darkness; they move all the foundations of the earth.
6 ¶ I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are sons of the most High.
7 But ye shall die like men and fall like one of the tyrants.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth, for thou shalt inherit all the Gentiles.
18 Because of my strong sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people that comes from a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images and with vanities of a strange god?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am devastated; I am in darkness; astonishment has taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then was there no medicine for the daughter of my people?
9 ¶ Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them! for they are all adulterers, a congregation of rebels.
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil, and they did not recognize me, said the LORD.
4 Take heed each one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
5 And they will deceive each one his neighbour and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
5 ¶ Justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus, the Christ,
2 by whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and glory in hope of the glory of the sons of God.
3 And not only this, but we even glory in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation works patience;
4 and patience, experience; and experience, hope;
5 and the hope shall not be ashamed, because the love of God is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us.
6 ¶ For the Christ, when we were yet weak, in his time died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God increased the price of his charity toward us in that while we were yet sinners the Christ died for us.
9 Then much more now justified in his blood, we shall be saved from wrath by him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled with God by the death of his Son, much more, now reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
11 And not only this, but we even glory in God through our Lord Jesus, the Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12 ¶ Then Jesus spoke again unto them, saying, I AM the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.
13 Then the Pharisees said unto him, Thou dost bear witness of thyself; thy witness is not true.
14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true, for I know from where I came and where I go; but ye do not know where I came from and where I go.
15 Ye judge after the flesh, but I judge no one.
16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
17 It is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.
18 I AM one that bears witness of myself, and the Father that sent me bears witness of me.
19 Then they said unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father; if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury as he taught in the temple, and no one laid hands on him, for his hour was not yet come.
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