Book of Common Prayer
63 O God, You are my God. I will seek You early. My soul thirsts for You. My flesh longs greatly after You in a barren and dry land, without water.
2 Thus, when I behold Your power and Your Glory, I behold You as in the Sanctuary.
3 For Your lovingkindness is better than life. My lips shall praise You.
4 Thus will I magnify You all my life and lift up my hands in Your Name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied, as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips,
6 When I remember You on my bed, I think upon You in the night watches.
7 Therefore, because You have been my helper, I will rejoice under the shadow of Your wings.
8 My soul clings to You. Your right hand upholds me.
9 Therefore, those who seek my soul to destroy it, they shall go into the lowest parts of the Earth.
10 They shall cast him down with the edge of the sword. They shall be a portion for foxes.
11 But the king shall rejoice in God. All who swear by Him shall rejoice. For the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped. To him who excels: A Psalm of David
103 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me! Praise His Holy Name!
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits!
3 Who forgives all your iniquity and heals all your infirmities.
4 Who redeems your life from the grave and crowns you with mercy and compassions.
5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things; and your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all who are oppressed.
7 He made His ways known to Moses and His works to the children of Israel.
8 The LORD is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great kindness.
9 He will not always strive with us; nor will He keep His anger forever.
10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heaven is above the Earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our sins from us.
13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
14 For He knows whereof we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
15 The days of man are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
16 For the wind goes over it and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
17 But the lovingkindness of the LORD endures forever and ever upon those who fear Him, and His righteousness upon children’s children
18 to those who keep His Covenant and remember His Commandments, to do them.
19 The LORD has prepared His throne in Heaven, and His Kingdom rules over all.
20 Praise the LORD, His angels, who excel in strength! Who do His Commandment in obeying the voice of His word!
21 Praise the LORD, all His hosts; His servants who do His pleasure!
22 Praise the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion! My soul, praise the LORD!
21 And when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he gathered all the House of Judah with the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred eighty thousand chosen men (who were good warriors) to fight against the House of Israel, and to bring the kingdom back to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.
22 But the Word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying:
23 “Speak to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the House of Judah and Benjamin, and the remnant of the people, saying,
24 ‘Thus says the LORD: “You shall not go up or fight against your brethren, the children of Israel. Every man return to his house. For this thing is done by Me.”’” Therefore, they obeyed the Word of the LORD and returned and departed, according to the Word of the LORD.
25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem on Mount Ephraim and dwelt in it and went from there and built Penuel.
26 And Jeroboam thought in his heart, “Now shall the kingdom return to the House of David.
27 “If this people goes up and does sacrifice in the House of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the hearts of this people turn back to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah. So shall they kill me and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah.”
28 Upon which the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold, O Israel, your gods which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
29 And he set one in Bethel. And the other he set in Dan.
30 And this thing turned to sin. For the people went (because of the one) as far as Dan.
31 Also, he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
32 And Jeroboam made a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the Feast that is in Judah, and offered on the altar. So he did in Bethel, and offered to the calves that he had made. And he placed the priests of the high places which he had made in Bethel.
33 And he offered upon the altar, which he had made in Bethel, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, (in the month which he had forged of his own heart) and made a solemn feast to the children of Israel. And he went up to the altar, to burn incense.
18 So they called them, and commanded them, that they should never speak or teach in the Name of Jesus.
19 But Peter and John answered them, and said, “Whether it is right in the sight of God - to obey you rather than God - you be the judge.
20 “For we can only speak the things which we have seen and heard.”
21 So they threatened them and let them go. And they found no way to punish them, because of the people. For they all praised God for what was done.
22 For the man upon whom this miracle of healing was shown was over forty years old.
23 Then, as soon as they were let go, they came home, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
24 And when they heard it, they lifted up their voices in unison to God, and said, “O Lord, You are the God Who has made the heaven, and the Earth, the sea, and all things that are in them;
25 “Who, by the mouth of Your servant David, has said, ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the people imagine empty things?
26 ‘The kings of the Earth assembled, and the rulers came together against the Lord, and against His Christ.’
27 “For doubtless, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, gathered themselves together against Your Holy Son Jesus - Whom You have anointed -
28 “to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel had determined beforehand to be done.
29 “And now, O Lord, behold their threats. And grant to Your servants to speak Your Word with all boldness,
30 “by stretching forth Your hand. So that healing and signs and wonders may be done by the Name of Your Holy Son, Jesus.”
31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. And they spoke the Word of God boldly.
31 Then the Jews took up stones again, to stone Him.
32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from My Father. For which of these works do you stone Me?”
33 The Jews answered Him, saying, “We do not stone You for a good work, but for blasphemy; and that you, being a Man, make Yourself God!”
34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
35 “If he called them gods (to whom the Word of God has come) and the Scripture cannot be broken,
36 do you say of Him Whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme’, because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
37 “If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me.
38 “But if I do, then even though you do not believe Me, believe the works; so that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.”
39 Again they sought to take Him. But He escaped out of their hands.
40 And again He went beyond Jordan, into the place where John first baptized, and stayed there.
41 And many came to Him, and said, “John did no miracle. But all things that John spoke about this Man were true.”
42 And many believed in Him there.
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