Book of Common Prayer
88 O LORD, God of My Salvation, I cry day and night before You.
2 Let my prayer enter into Your presence. Incline Your ear to my cry.
3 For my soul is filled with evils and my life draws near to the grave.
4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; and am as a man without strength,
5 Free among the dead, like the fatally wounded laying in the grave when You remember no more; and they are cut off from Your hand.
6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deep.
7 Your indignation lies upon me; and You have troubled me with all Your waves. Selah.
8 You have put away my acquaintances far from me and made me to be abhorred by them. I am shut up and cannot get out.
9 My eye is sorrowful through my affliction. LORD, I call daily upon You. I stretch out my hands to You.
10 Will You show a miracle to the dead? Or shall the dead rise and praise You? Selah.
11 Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or Your faithfulness in destruction?
12 Shall Your wondrous works be known in the dark; and Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
13 But to You I have cried, O LORD, and my prayer shall come before You early.
14 LORD, why do You reject my soul and hide Your face from me?
15 I am afflicted and at the point of death. From youth I have doubted, suffering Your terrors.
16 Your indignations go over me and Your fear has cut me off.
17 They came all around me daily like water and encircled me altogether.
18 You have put away my lovers and friends from me. My acquaintances hid themselves. A Psalm to give instruction, of Ethan the Ezrahite
91 Whoever dwells in the secret of the Most High shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the LORD, “O my Hope, and my Fortress! My God!” In Him will I trust.
3 Surely, He will deliver you from the snare of the hunter, from the calamitous pestilence.
4 He will cover you under His wings. And you shall be sure under his feathers. His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
5 You shall not be afraid of the fear of the night; of the arrow that flies by day;
6 of the pestilence that walks in the darkness; of the plague that destroys at noon day.
7 A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand. But it shall not come near you.
8 Doubtless, with your eyes you shall behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9 For you have said, “The LORD is my hope.” You have set the Most High for your refuge.
10 No evil shall come to you. Nor shall any plague come near your house.
11 For He shall give His angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways.
12 They shall hold you in their hands, so that you do not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You shall walk upon the lion and asp. The young lion and the dragon you shall tread underfoot.
14 “Because he has loved Me, therefore will I deliver him. I will exalt him because he has known My Name.
15 “He shall call upon Me, and I will hear him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and glorify him.
16 “I will satisfy him with long life and show him my salvation.” A Psalm, or song, for the Sabbath day
92 It is a good thing to praise the LORD, and to sing to Your Name, O Most High,
2 to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your truth in the night,
3 upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the viol, with the song upon the harp.
4 For You, LORD, have made me glad by Your works; and I will rejoice in the works of Your hands.
5 O LORD, how glorious are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.
6 An unwise man does not know it; and a fool does not understand this:
7 that when the wicked grow as the grass and all the workers of wickedness flourish, they shall be destroyed forever.
8 But You, O LORD, are Most High forevermore.
9 For lo, Your enemies, O LORD. For lo, Your enemies shall perish. All the workers of iniquity shall be destroyed.
10 But You shall exalt my horn, like the unicorns, and I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
11 Also, my eye shall see my desire against my enemies; and my ears shall hear my wish against the wicked who rise up against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree and shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Such as are planted in the House of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in their old age. They shall be fat and flourishing,
15 to declare that the LORD my Rock is righteous and that no iniquity is in Him.
17 And the watchman that stood in the tower in Jezreel spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company!” And Jehoram said, “Take a horseman and send to meet them, so that he may say, ‘Is it peace?’”
18 So, one on horseback went to meet him, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.” And the watchman told, saying, “The messenger went to them, but he has not come back.”
19 Then he sent out another on horseback, who came to them, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu answered, “What have you to do with peace? Follow me.”
20 And the watchman told, saying, “He went to them, but does not return. And the marching is like the marching of Jehu, the son of Nimshi. For he marches furiously.”
21 Then Jehoram said, “Make ready.” And his chariot was made ready. And Jehoram, king of Israel, and Ahaziah, king of Judah, went out, each of them in his chariot, against Jehu, and met him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22 And when Jehoram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace while the whoredoms of your mother, Jezebel, and her witchcrafts, are still in great number?”
23 Then Jehoram turned his hand, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, “O Ahaziah! Treason!”
24 But Jehu took a bow in his hand and struck Jehoram between the shoulders, so that the arrow went through his heart. And he fell down in his chariot.
25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar, a captain, “Take and cast him in some place in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For I remember that when I and you rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him.
26 ‘Surely yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ said the LORD, ‘And I will render it to you in this field,’ says the LORD. Now, therefore, take and cast him in the field according to the Word of the LORD.”
27 But when Ahaziah, the king of Judah, saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu pursued after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” And they struck him in the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.
28 And his servants carried him to Jerusalem in a chariot and buried him in his sepulcher with his fathers, in the city of David.
29 And in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
30 And when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it and painted her face and adorned her head and looked out a window.
31 And as Jehu entered at the gate, she said, “Does Zimri, killer of his master, have peace?”
32 And he lifted up his eyes to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Then two or three of her eunuchs looked to him,
33 and he said, “Throw her down.” And they threw her down. And he sprinkled some of her blood upon the wall, and upon the horses. And he trod her underfoot.
34 And when he had come in, he ate and drank, and said, “Now, see to this cursed woman, and bury her. For she is a king’s daughter.”
35 And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
36 Therefore, they came back and told him. And he said, “This is the Word of the LORD which He spoke by His servant, Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the field of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel.
37 ‘And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the ground in the field of Jezreel, so that no one shall say, “This is Jezebel.”’”
7 Now, concerning the things about which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have a wife for himself, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband give to the wife her due affection, and likewise also the wife to the husband.
4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. And likewise, also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
5 Do not deprive one another, unless with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you for your intemperance.
6 Yet, I speak this by permission, not by Commandment.
7 For I would that all were still as I myself. But everyone has his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 Therefore I say to the unmarried, and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain just as I.
9 But if they cannot abstain, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn.
7 “Also, when you pray, use no meaningless repetitions as the heathen. For they think they are heard for their many words.
8 “Therefore, do not be like them. For your Father knows your needs before you ask Him.
9 “After this manner therefore pray, ‘Our Father Who are in Heaven, hallowed be Your Name.
10 “Your Kingdom come. Your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
11 “Give us this day our daily bread.
12 “And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
13 “And lead us not into trial. But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory forever. Amen.’
14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 “But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, no more will your Father forgive you your trespasses.
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