Book of Common Prayer
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
1 ¶ O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me sore.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and sore broken; I roar by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10 My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
11 My friends and my companions stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12 ¶ Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.
13 But I, as a deaf man heard not, and was as a dumb man that did not open his mouth.
14 Thus I was as a man that does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15 For thee, O LORD, do I wait; thou wilt respond, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, Let them not rejoice over me; let them not magnify themselves against me when my foot slips.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18 Therefore I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19 For my enemies are alive, and they are strong, and those that hate me wrongfully are multiplied;
20 rendering evil for good they are against me because I follow that which is good.
21 Forsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
DALETH.
25 ¶ My soul cleaves unto the dust; quicken me according to thy word.
26 ¶ I have declared my ways, and thou didst hear me; teach me thy statutes.
27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts; so I shall meditate of thy wondrous works.
28 ¶ My soul melts for heaviness; strengthen me according to thy word.
29 Remove from me the way of lying, and from thy law grant me mercy.
30 ¶ I have chosen the way of truth; I have laid thy judgments before me.
31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies; O LORD, put me not to shame.
32 I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
HE.
33 ¶ Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it unto the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
35 ¶ Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do I delight.
36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to covetousness.
37 ¶ Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and cause me to live in thy way.
38 ¶ Confirm thy word unto thy slave, who is devoted to thy fear.
39 ¶ Turn away my reproach which I have feared, for thy judgments are good.
40 ¶ Behold, I have longed after thy precepts; cause me to live in thy righteousness.
VAU.
41 ¶ Let thy mercy come unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy spoken word.
42 And I shall answer him that reproaches me, by saying that I trust in thy word.
43 ¶ And take not at any time the word of truth out of my mouth; for I wait for thy judgment.
44 So shall I keep thy law continually from age to age.
45 ¶ And I will walk at liberty, for I sought thy commandments.
46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed.
47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
48 I will lift up My hands unto thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate in thy statutes.
5 ¶ Belshazzar the king made a great banquet to a thousand of his lords, and against the thousand he drank wine.
2 Belshazzar, under the influence of the wine, commanded that they bring the vessels of gold and of silver which Nebuchadnezzar his father had brought from the temple of Jerusalem; that the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines, might drink with them.
3 Then they brought the vessels of gold that they had brought from the temple of the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and the king and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank with them.
4 They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
5 In that same hour some fingers of a man’s hand came forth and wrote in front of the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.
6 Then the king became pale, and his thoughts troubled him, and the girdings of his loins were unloosed, and his knees smote one against another.
7 The king cried in a loud voice that they bring in the magicians, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing and show me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold about his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
8 Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king its interpretation.
9 Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his colour was changed, and his princes were upset.
10 ¶ Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and of his princes, came into the banquet room. The queen spoke and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be pale.
11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom lives the spirit of the holy God; and in the days of thy father light and intelligence and wisdom, like the knowledge of God, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, made prince over all the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and fortune-tellers; thus did thy father, the king,
12 because Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, was found to have a more excellent spirit and greater knowledge and understanding interpreting dreams, unraveling questions, and dissolving doubts. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show thee the interpretation.
5 ¶ Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and anyone that loves him that begat also loves him that is born of him.
2 In this we know that we love the sons of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous.
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 ¶ This is Jesus, the Christ, who came by water and blood; not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit is he that bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
8 And there are three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree in one.
9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he has testified of his Son.
10 ¶ He that believes in the Son of God has the witness of God in himself; he that does not believe God has made God a liar; because he does not believe the witness that God has testified of his Son.
11 And this is the witness, that God has given eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son.
12 He that has the Son has life; and he that does not have the Son of God does not have life.
38 And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever, and they besought him for her.
39 And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
40 Now when the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with diverse diseases brought them unto him, and laying his hands on each one of them, he healed them.
41 And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, Thou art the Christ, the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak, for they knew that he was the Christ.
42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place, and the people sought him and came unto him and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.
43 And he said unto them, I must announce the gospel of the kingdom of God to other cities also because for this am I sent.
44 And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.
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