Book of Common Prayer
61 Hear my cry, O God! Give ear to my prayer!
2 From the ends of the Earth I will cry to You. When my heart is oppressed, bring me upon the Rock that is higher than I.
3 For You have been my hope, a strong tower against the enemy.
4 I will dwell in Your Tabernacle forever. My trust shall be under the covering of Your wings. Selah.
5 For You, O God, have heard my desires. You have given a heritage to those who fear Your Name.
6 You shall give the king a long life. His years shall be as many ages.
7 He shall dwell before God forever. Prepare mercy and faithfulness, that they may preserve him.
8 So I will always sing praise to Your Name in performing, daily, my vows. To the excellent musician, Jeduthun: A Psalm of David
62 Yet my soul keeps silence to God. From Him comes my salvation.
2 He alone is my strength and my salvation, my defense. I shall not be greatly moved.
3 How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You shall all be slain. You shall be as a bowed wall, as a wall shaken.
4 Yet, they consult to cast him down from his high position. Their delight is in lies. They bless with their mouths but curse with their hearts. Selah.
5 My soul, keep silent to God only (for my hope is from Him).
6 He alone is my strength and my salvation, my defense. I shall not be moved.
7 In God is my salvation and my glory, the rock of my strength. In God is my trust.
8 Trust in Him always, you people. Pour out your hearts before Him, God our Hope. Selah.
9 Surely, men of low degree are a vapor, and the chief men liars. To lay them upon a scale, they are altogether lighter than a breath.
10 Do not trust in oppression or in robbery. Do not be vain. If riches increase, do not set your heart thereon.
11 God has spoken once, twice I have heard it, that power belongs to God;
12 and to You, O LORD, mercy. For You reward everyone according to his work. A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah
68 God will arise. His enemies shall be scattered. Also, those who hate Him shall flee before Him.
2 As the smoke vanishes, so shall You drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God.
3 But the righteous shall be glad and rejoice before God. Indeed, they shall leap for joy.
4 Sing to God! Sing praises to His Name! Exalt Him Who rides upon the heavens (by his Name, YAH) and rejoice before him!
5 He is a Father of the fatherless and a Judge of the widows: God in His Holy Habitation.
6 God makes the solitary dwell in families and delivers those who were held captive. But the rebellious shall dwell in a parched land.
7 O God, when You went forth before Your people, when You went through the wilderness (Selah),
8 the Earth shook, and the heavens dropped at the presence of this God. Sinai was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 You, O God, sent a gracious rain upon Your inheritance; and You refreshed it when it was weary.
10 Your Congregation dwelled therein. You, O God, have, by Your goodness, prepared it for the poor.
11 The LORD commanded: the women shall tell of the great army.
12 Kings of the armies fled. They fled, and she who remained in the house divided the spoil.
13 Though you have lain among pots, you shall be as the wings of a dove that are covered with silver, and whose feathers are like yellow gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as the snow in Zalmon.
15 The Mountain of God is like the mountain of Bashan. It is a high mountain, as mount Bashan.
16 Why do you leap, you high mountains? As for this Mountain, God delights to dwell in it. Indeed, the LORD will dwell in it forever.
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand thousand angels. The LORD is among them, as in the Sanctuary of Sinai.
18 You have gone up on high. You have led captives into captivity and received gifts for men. Indeed, even the rebellious You have led, so that the LORD God might dwell there.
19 Praised be the LORD, the God of our salvation, Who daily bears our burden. Selah.
20 This is our God, the God Who saves; and to the LORD God belongs the escapes from death.
21 Surely God will wound the head of His enemies, and the hairy scalp of him who walks in his sins.
22 The LORD has said, “I will bring My people again from Bashan. I will bring them again from the depths of the sea,
23 “so that your foot may be dipped in blood and the tongue of your dogs in the blood of your enemies; yes, your enemies.”
24 They have seen, O God, Your goings; the goings of my God and my King, Who is in the Sanctuary.
25 The singers went before, the players of instruments after. In the midst, the maids were playing with timbrels.
26 Praise God in the assemblies, and the LORD, you who are of the fountain of Israel!
27 There was little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah with their assembly, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your GOD has appointed your strength. Establish, O God, that which You first wrought in us.
29 Out of Your Temple upon Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to You.
30 Destroy the company of the spearmen who tread pieces of silver under foot, along with the multitude of the mighty bulls and the calves of the people. Scatter the people who delight in war.
31 Then shall the princes come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hasten to stretch her hands to God.
32 Sing to God, O you kingdoms of the Earth! Sing praise to the LORD (Selah),
33 to him who rides upon the Most High Heavens, Who was from the beginning. Behold, He will send out, by His voice, a mighty sound!
34 Ascribe the power to God! His majesty is upon Israel and His strength is in the clouds!
35 O God, You are awesome out of Your Holy places! The God of Israel is He Who gives strength and power to the people! Praise God! To him who excels upon Shoshannim: A Psalm of David
6 Now, while there was war between the House of Saul and the House of David, Abner strengthened himself for the House of Saul.
7 And Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
8 Then Abner was very angry at the words of Ishbosheth, and said, “Am I a dog’s head of Judah? This day I have shown mercy to the House of Saul your father, to his brethren, and to his neighbors, and have not delivered you into the hand of David! Yet, you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman?
9 “So do God to Abner, and more also, unless I do for David as the LORD has sworn to him,
10 “to remove the kingdom from the House of Saul, so that the throne of David may be established over Israel, and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”
11 And he dared not answer Abner anymore. For he feared him.
12 Then Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “Whose is the land?” and also saying, “Make a covenant with me. And behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring all Israel to you.”
13 Who said, “Good. I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you, which is that you do not see my face unless you bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see me.”
14 Then David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver my wife Michal to me, whom I married for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
15 And Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, Paltiel, the son of Laish.
16 And her husband went with her and came, weeping, behind her, to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go. Return.” So, he returned.
17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, “You fought for David in times past, so that he might be your king.
18 “Then, do it now! For the LORD has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant, David, I will save My people, Israel, out of the hands of the Philistines and out of the hands of all their enemies.’”
19 Also, Abner spoke to Benjamin. And afterward, Abner went to speak with David in Hebron concerning all that Israel was content with, as well as all that of the House of Benjamin.
20 So Abner came to David, to Hebron, having twenty men with him. And David made a feast for Abner, and to the men who were with him.
21 Then Abner said to David, “I will rise up and go gather all Israel to my lord the king, so that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires.” Then David let Abner depart, who went in peace.
6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia, and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the Word in Asia.
7 Then they came to Mysia and sought to go into Bithynia. But the Spirit did not allow them.
8 Therefore they passed through Mysia, and came down to Troas,
9 where a vision appeared to Paul in the night: A Macedonian man stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come into Macedonia, and help us!”
10 And after he had seen the vision, we immediately prepared to go into Macedonia, being assured that the Lord had called us to preach the Gospel to them.
11 Then went we forth from Troas. And with a straight course, we came to Samothrace, and the next day to Neapolis;
12 and from there to Philippi (which is the chief city in the parts of Macedonia, and whose inhabitants came from Rome to dwell there). And we stayed in that city some days.
13 And on the Sabbath day, we went out of the city, to a riverside where they customarily prayed. And we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.
14 And a certain woman named Lydia (a seller of purple, of the city of the Thyatirians), who worshipped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart, so that she paid attention to the things which Paul spoke.
15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she implored us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” And she insisted.
30 And the Apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus and told Him all things, both what they had done and what they had taught.
31 And He said to them, “Come away into the wilderness, and rest a while.” For there were many comers and goers, that they had not had a chance to eat.
32 So they went by ship out of the way into a desert place.
33 But the people saw them when they departed and many knew Him and ran after them, out of all cities, and got to the desert place before them.
34 Then Jesus went out and saw a great multitude and had compassion on them, because they were like sheep which had no shepherd. And He began to teach them many things.
35 And when the day was now far spent, His disciples came to Him, saying, “This is a desert place and now the day is old.
36 “Let them depart, so that they may go into the country and towns nearby and buy bread. For they have nothing to eat.”
37 But He answered, and said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to Him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred pennies worth of bread and give them that to eat?”
38 Then He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and look.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fishes.”
39 So He commanded them to make them all sit down by groups upon the green grass.
40 Then they sat down by rows, by hundreds and by fifties.
41 And He took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looked up to Heaven and gave thanks and broke the loaves and gave them to His disciples to set before them. And He divided the two fishes among them all.
42 So they all ate and were satisfied.
43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments and of the fishes.
44 And those who had eaten were about five thousand men.
45 And immediately He had His disciples get into the ship and go before Him to the other side, to Bethsaida. While He sent away the people.
46 Then as soon as He had sent them away, He departed into a mountain to pray.
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