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Book of Common Prayer

Daily Old and New Testament readings based on the Book of Common Prayer.
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Psalm 31

31 In You, O LORD, have I put my trust. Let me never be confounded. Deliver me in Your righteousness.

Bow down Your ear to me. Make haste to deliver me. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

For You are my rock and my fortress. Therefore, direct me and guide me for Your Name’s sake.

Draw me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me. For You are my strength.

Into Your hand I commend My spirit. For You have redeemed me, O LORD God of Truth.

I have hated those who give themselves to deceitful vanities; for I trust in the LORD.

I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy. For You have seen my trouble. You have known my soul in adversities.

And You have not shut me up in the hand of the enemy but have set my feet in an open space.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble. My eye, my soul and my belly are consumed with grief.

10 For my life is wasted with heaviness, and my years with mourning. My strength fails because of my pain; and my bones are consumed.

11 I was a reproach among all my enemies — but especially among my neighbors — and a fear to my acquaintances. Who, seeing me in the street, fled from me.

12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

13 For I have heard the railing of great men. Fear was on every side, while they conspired together against me and consulted to take my life.

14 But I trusted in You, O LORD. I said, “You are my God.”

15 My times are in Your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

16 Make Your face to shine upon Your servant. Save me through Your mercy.

17 Let me not be confounded, O LORD, for I have called upon You. Let the wicked be put to confusion, to silence, in the grave.

18 Let the lying lips which cruelly, proudly, and spitefully speak against the righteous be made dumb.

19 How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You; and done to those who trust in You before the sons of men!

20 You hide them from the pride of men in the secret place of Your presence. You keep them secretly in Your Tabernacle from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the LORD. For He has shown His marvelous kindness toward me in a strong city.

22 Though I said in my haste, “I am cast out of Your sight!” Still, You heard the voice of my prayer when I cried to You.

23 Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful and abundantly repays the proud.

24 All you who trust in the LORD, be strong; and He shall establish your heart. A Psalm of David, to give instruction.

Psalm 35

35 Plead my cause, O LORD, with those who strive with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Lay hand upon the shield and buckler; and stand up for my help.

Also, bring out the spear, and stop the way against those who persecute me. Say to my soul, “I am Your salvation.”

Let those who seek after my soul be confounded and put to shame. Let those who imagine my hurt be turned back and brought to confusion.

Let them be as chaff before the wind; and let the Angel of the LORD scatter them.

Let their way be dark and slippery; and let the Angel of the LORD persecute them.

For without cause, they have hidden the pit and their net for me. Without cause, they have dug a pit for my soul.

Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly; and let his net that he has laid secretly, take him. Let him fall into the same destruction.

Then my soul shall be joyful in the LORD. It shall rejoice in His salvation.

10 All my bones shall say, “LORD, who is like You, Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; indeed, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him!?”

11 Cruel witnesses arose. They asked things of me that I did not know.

12 They rewarded me evil for good, to spoil my soul.

13 Yet I, when they were sick, I was clothed with sackcloth. I humbled my soul with fasting. And my prayer was turned upon my bosom.

14 I behaved as to my friend, or as to my brother. I humbled myself, mourning as one who bewails his mother.

15 But they rejoiced in my adversity and gathered themselves together. The strikers assembled themselves against me, and I did not know. They tore me and did not cease,

16 with the false scoffers at banquets gnashing their teeth against me.

17 LORD, how long will You behold? Deliver my soul from their tumult, my desolate soul from the lions.

18 I will give You thanks in a great congregation. I will praise You among many people.

19 Do not let those who are my enemies unjustly rejoice over me, nor let those wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.

20 For they do not speak as friends. But they imagine deceitful words against the quiet of the land.

21 And they gaped on me with their mouths, saying, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen!”

22 You have seen it, O LORD. Do not keep silent. Do not be far from me, O LORD.

23 Arise and wake to my judgment, even to my cause, my God and my LORD.

24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to Your righteousness; and do not let them rejoice over me.

25 Do not let them say in their hearts, “O, our soul, rejoice.” Nor let them say, “We have devoured him.”

26 Let those who rejoice at my hurt be confounded and put to shame together. Let those who lift themselves up against me be clothed with confusion and shame.

27 Let those who love my righteousness be joyful and glad. Indeed, let those who love the prosperity of His servant say always, “Let the LORD be magnified!”

28 And my tongue shall utter Your righteousness and Your praise every day. To him who excels. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD.

1 Samuel 21

21 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the Priest. And Ahimelech was afraid upon meeting David, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”

And David said to Ahimelech the Priest, “The king has commanded me a certain thing, and has said to me, ‘Let no man know where I send you, and what I have commanded you, and that I have appointed my servants to such and such places.’

“Now, therefore, if you have anything on hand, give me five cakes of bread or whatever there is present.”

And the Priest answered David, and said, “There is no common bread on hand, but here is hallowed bread, if the young men have kept themselves, at least from women.”

David then answered the Priest, and said to him, “Certainly women have been separated from us for these two or three days since I came out. And the vessels of the young men were holy, though the road was profane. And how much more, then, shall the vessel be sanctified this day?”

So the Priest gave him hallowed bread. For there was no bread there, except the showbread that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread there on the day that it was taken away.

And there was on the same day, one of the servants of Saul, abiding before the LORD, named Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s herdsmen.

And David said to Ahimelech, “Is there not here under your hand a spear or a sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my harness with me, because the king’s business required haste.”

And the Priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that for yourself, take it. For there is nothing else except that here.” And David said, “There is nothing like it. Give it to me.”

10 And David arose and fled the same day from the presence of Saul and went to Achish, the king of Gath.

11 And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has killed his thousand, and David his ten thousand?’”

12 And David considered these words and was very afraid of Achish, the king of Gath.

13 And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scratched on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

14 Then Achish said to his servants, “Lo, you see the man is beside himself. Why have you brought him to me?

15 “Have I need of mad men, that you have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? Shall he come into my house?”

Acts 13:13-25

13 Now when Paul and those who were with him had departed by ship from Paphos, they came to Perga of Pamphylia. Then John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

14 But when they left Perga, they came to Antioch of Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

15 And after the reading of the Law and Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, “Men, brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, speak.”

16 Then Paul stood up and beckoned with the hand, and said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, hear me!

17 “The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they dwelt in the land of Egypt. And with a high arm, He brought them out of there.

18 “And for about forty years, He endured their manners in the wilderness.

19 “And He destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan and divided their land to them by lot.

20 “Then afterward, He gave them Judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until the time of Samuel the Prophet.

21 “So after that, they desired a King. And God gave them Saul (the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin) for forty years.

22 “And after He had taken him away, he raised up David to be their King. Of whom He testified, saying, ‘I have found David of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all things that I will.

23 “Of this man’s seed, God has raised up the Savior Jesus, according to His promise to Israel.

24 “Before His coming, John had first preached the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

25 “And when John had fulfilled his course, he said, ‘Whom do you think that I am? I am not He. But behold, there comes One after me, whose shoe of His feet I am not worthy to untie.’

Mark 3:7-19

But Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea. And a great multitude followed Him from Galilee, and from Judea,

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond Jordan. And those who dwelt around Tyre and Sidon - when they had heard what great things He did - came to Him in great number.

And He commanded His disciples that a little ship should wait for Him because of the multitude, lest they should overwhelm Him.

10 For He had healed many; so much so that they pressed upon Him to touch Him, as many as had plagues.

11 And when the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him, and cried, saying, “You are the Son of God!”

12 And He sharply rebuked them, that they should not tell Who He was.

13 Then He went up into a mountain and called to Him whom He would. And they came to Him.

14 And He appointed twelve, that they should be with Him. And that He might send them to preach.

15 And that they might have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out demons.

16 And the first was Simon. And He named Simon, ‘Peter’;

17 then James, the son of Zebedee, and John, James’ brother (and surnamed them ‘Boanerges’, which is, ‘The Sons of Thunder’),

18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James (the son of Alphaeus), and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,

19 and Judas Iscariot (who also betrayed Him). And they came home.

Revised Geneva Translation (RGT)

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