Book of Common Prayer
16 Preserve me, O God. For in You do I trust.
2 O my soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my LORD. My goodness is not, but for You.”
3 To the saints who are on the Earth, and to the excellent, all my delight is in them.
4 The sorrows of those who offer to another god shall be multiplied. Their offerings of blood I will not offer; nor make mention of their names with my lips.
5 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance, and of my cup. You shall maintain my lot.
6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a fair heritage.
7 I will praise the LORD Who has given me counsel. My core also teaches me in the nights.
8 I have set the LORD always before me. For He is at my right hand. Therefore, I shall not slide.
9 Therefore, my heart is glad. And my tongue rejoices. My flesh, also, rests in hope.
10 For You will not leave my soul in the grave. Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
11 You will show me the path of life. In Your presence is the fullness of joy. And at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. The prayer of David.
17 Hear what is right, O LORD. Consider my cry. Hear my prayer of unfeigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from Your presence. And let Your eyes behold equity.
3 You have tested and visited my heart in the night. You have tried me and found nothing. For I have purposed that my mouth should not offend.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the words of Your lips I kept myself from the paths of the cruel man.
5 Keep my steps in Your paths, so that my feet do not slide.
6 I have called upon You. Surely You will hear me, O God. Incline Your ear to me and hear my words.
7 Show Your marvelous mercies, You Who are the Savior of those who trust in You from such as resist Your right hand.
8 Keep me as the apple of Your eye. Hide me under the shadow of Your wings
9 from the wicked who oppress me, from my enemies who surround me for my soul.
10 They are enclosed in their own fat. They have spoken proudly with their mouth.
11 They have surrounded us now in our steps. They have set their eyes to bring us down to the ground.
12 Like a lion that is greedy for prey (and as it were a lion’s whelp) lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, LORD! Disappoint him! Cast him down! Deliver my soul from the wicked with Your sword;
14 from men, by Your hand, O LORD; from men of the world who have their portion in this life; whose bellies You fill with Your hidden treasure. Their children have enough and leave the rest of their substance for their children.
15 But I will behold Your face in righteousness. And when I awake, I shall be satisfied with Your image. To him who excels: A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. Who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies (and from the hand of Saul) and said,
22 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me; are so far from My health and from the words of My roaring?
2 O, My God, I cry by day, but You do not hear; and by night but have no audience.
3 But You are Holy and inhabit the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in You. They trusted, and You delivered them.
5 They called upon You and were delivered. They trusted in You and were not confounded.
6 But I am a worm, and not a man, a shame of men and the contempt of the people.
7 All those who see Me, hold Me in derision. They shoot out the lip and nod the head, saying,
8 “He trusted in the LORD. Let Him deliver Him. Let Him save Him, seeing He loves Him.”
9 But You drew Me out of the womb. You gave Me hope, even at My mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon You, even from the womb. You are My God, from My mother’s belly.
11 Be not far from Me, because trouble is near. For there is no one to help.
12 Many young bulls have surrounded Me. Mighty bulls of Bashan have encircled Me.
13 They gape upon Me with their mouths, a ramping and roaring lion.
14 I am like water poured out; and all My bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is molten in the midst of My core.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and My tongue clings to My jaws; and You have brought Me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have surrounded Me; the assembly of the wicked have encircled Me. They pierced My hands and My feet.
17 I count all My bones. They behold and look upon Me.
18 They part My garments among them and cast lots upon My clothing.
19 But be not afar off, O LORD, My strength. Hasten to help Me.
20 Deliver My soul from the sword, my desolate soul from the power of the dog.
21 Save Me from the lion’s mouth; and answer Me in saving Me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I will declare Your Name to My brothers. In the midst of the Congregation will I praise You.
23 Praise the LORD, you who fear Him! Magnify Him, all the seed of Jacob; and fear Him, all the seed of Israel!
24 For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the poor. Nor has He hidden His face from Him, but when He called to Him, He heard.
25 My praise shall be of You in the great Congregation. I will perform My vows before those who fear Him.
26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied. Those who seek after the LORD shall praise Him. Your heart shall live forever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD; and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before You.
28 For the Kingdom is the LORD’s; and He rules among the nations.
29 All those who are fat on the Earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down into the dust shall bow before Him, even him who cannot quicken his own soul.
30 Their seed shall serve Him. It shall be counted to the LORD for a generation.
31 They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people who shall be born, because He has done it. A Psalm of David.
5 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants to Solomon (for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father) because Hiram had always loved David.
2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
3 “You know that David, my father, could not build a House to the Name of the LORD his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until the LORD had put them under the soles of his feet.
4 “But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary nor evil to resist.
5 “And behold, I intend to build a House to the Name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set upon your throne for you, he shall build a House to My Name.’
6 “Now, therefore, command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. And my servants shall be with your servants, and I will give you the wages for your servants, according to all that you shall appoint. For you know that there are none among us who can cut timber like the Sidonians!”
7 And when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day, Who has given David a wise son over this mighty people!”
8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have considered the things for which you sent to me, and will accomplish all your desire concerning the cedar trees and fir trees.
9 “My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will transport them by sea in rafts to the place that you shall tell me and will have them discharged there. And you shall receive them. And you shall do me the pleasure of ministering food for my family.”
10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees, his full desire.
11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil. Thus, Solomon gave much to Hiram year after year.
12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon. And those two made a covenant.
13 And King Solomon raised a sum from all Israel. And the sum was thirty thousand men,
14 whom he sent to Lebanon, ten thousand a month, changing regularly. They were a month in Lebanon, and two months at home. And Adoniram was over the sum.
15 And Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand masons on the mountain
16 (besides the princes whom Solomon appointed over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled the people who fashioned the work).
17 And the king commanded them, and they brought great stones and costly stones to make the foundations of the House: hewn stones.
18 And Solomon’s workmen and the workmen of Hiram and the masons cut and prepared timber and stones for the building of the House.
6 And in the four hundred eightieth year (after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt), in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Ziv (which is the second month), he built the House of the LORD.
7 And when the House was built, it was built of stone finished before it was brought, so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the House while it was being built.
28 And when they had escaped, they learned that the isle was called Malta.
2 And the people of the country showed us no little kindness. For they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
3 And when Paul had gathered a number of sticks, and laid them on the fire, a viper came out of the heat and fastened on his hand.
4 Now when the locals saw the wild beast hanging on his hand, they said among themselves, “This man is surely a murderer. For though he has escaped the sea, vengeance has still not allowed to live.”
5 But he shook off the beast (into the fire) and felt no harm.
6 Even so, they waited for him to become swollen, or to suddenly fall down dead. But after they had looked for a long while and seen no harm come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.
7 In the same region, the chief man of the isle (whose name was Publius) had an estate. He kindly received and lodged us for three days.
8 And so it was that the father of Publius lay sick from a fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him. And when he prayed, he laid hands on him, and healed him.
9 Then, when this was done, others on the isle who had diseases also came to him and were healed.
10 They also honored us greatly. And when we departed, they gave us necessary supplies.
11 Now after three months, we departed in a ship of Alexandria, (which had wintered on the isle) whose figurehead was Castor and Pollux.
12 And when we arrived at Syracuse, we stayed three days.
13 And we cast off from there and came to Rhegium. And after one day, a south wind blew. And the next day we came to Puteoli,
14 where we found brothers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so, we went toward Rome.
15 And from there (when the brothers heard about us) they came to meet us at the Market of Appius and the three taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God, and took courage.
16 So when we came to Rome, the Centurion delivered the prisoners to the general captain. But Paul was allowed to dwell by himself with a soldier who guarded him.
27 Then Jesus said to them, “All of you shall desert Me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.’
28 “But after I am risen, I will go into Galilee before you.”
29 And Peter said to Him, “Although all men should desert You, yet would not I!”
30 Then Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, this day, even this night, before the cock crows twice, you shall deny Me three times.”
31 But he said more earnestly, “If I should die with You, I will not deny You!” And so said they all.
32 Afterward, they came into a place named Gethsemane. Then He said to His disciples, “Sit here, till I have prayed.”
33 And He took with him Peter, and James, and John. And He began to be troubled and in great heaviness.
34 And He said to them, “My soul is very heavy, even to the death. Wait here, and watch.”
35 So He went forward a little, and fell down on the ground, and prayed that if it were possible that hour might pass from Him.
36 And He said, “Abba, Father. All things are possible for You. Take away this cup from Me. Nevertheless, not that I will, but that You will, be done.”
37 Then He came, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon! Asleep? Could you not watch one hour!?
38 “Watch. And pray. So that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is ready, but the flesh is weak.”
39 And again He went away, and prayed, and spoke the same words.
40 And He returned and found them asleep again. For their eyes were heavy, nor did they know what they should answer Him.
41 And He came the third time and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.
42 “Rise up! Let us go! Lo, he who betrays Me is here!”
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