Book of Common Prayer
131 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor are my eyes lofty, nor have I proceeded in great matters and things hidden from me.
2 Surely, I have behaved like one weaned from his mother and kept silent. In myself, I am as one who is weaned.
3 Let Israel wait on the LORD from henceforth and forever. A song of degrees
132 LORD, remember David with all his affliction.
2 Who swore to the LORD, vowed to the Mighty of Jacob,
3 “I will not enter into the tabernacle of my house, nor come upon my pallet (my bed),
4 “nor allow my eyes to sleep, nor my eyelids to slumber,
5 “until I find a place for the LORD, a habitation for the Mighty of Jacob.”
6 Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah and found it in the fields of the forest.
7 We will enter into His Tabernacles and worship before His footstool.
8 Arise, O LORD, into Your rest, You and the Ark of Your strength.
9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let Your saints rejoice.
10 For Your servant David’s sake, do not refuse the face of Your Anointed.
11 The LORD has sworn to David in truth; and He will not shrink from it, saying, “From the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.
12 “If your sons keep My Covenant, and My testimonies, so that I shall teach them, their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”
13 For the LORD has chosen Zion and loved to dwell in it, saying,
14 “This is My rest, forever. Here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
15 “I will surely bless her provisions and will satisfy her poor with bread
16 “and will clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall shout for joy.
17 “There I will make the horn of David bud. I have ordained a Light for My Anointed.
18 “I will clothe His enemies with shame; but on Him His crown shall flourish.” A song of degrees, or Psalm, of Solomon
133 Behold, how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brothers to dwell together.
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, which runs down upon the beard (even to Aaron’s beard, which went down on the border of his garments)
3 as the dew of Hermon which falls upon the mountains of Zion; for there the LORD appointed the blessing and life forever. A song of degrees
134 Behold! Praise the LORD all you servants of the LORD, who stand in the House of the LORD by night!
2 Lift up your hands to the Sanctuary and praise the LORD!
3 The LORD, Who has made Heaven and Earth, bless you out of Zion. Praise the LORD
135 Praise the Name of the LORD, you servants of the LORD! Praise,
2 you who stand in the House of the LORD and in the courts of the House of our God!
3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good! Sing praises to His Name; for it is a sweet thing.
4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for Himself and Israel for His chief treasure.
5 For I know that the LORD is great and that our LORD is above all gods.
6 Whatever pleased the LORD, He did in Heaven and on Earth, in the sea and in all the depths.
7 He brings up the clouds from the ends of the Earth and makes the lightning with the rain. He draws forth the wind out of His treasures.
8 He struck the firstborn of Egypt (of both man and beast).
9 He has sent signs and wonders into the midst of You, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants.
10 He struck many nations and slew mighty Kings—
11 Sihon, King of the Amorites and Og, King of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan—
12 and gave their land for an inheritance, an inheritance to Israel, His people.
13 Your Name, O LORD, endures forever! O LORD, Your remembrance is from generation to generation.
14 For the LORD will judge His people and be pacified toward His servants.
15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
16 They have a mouth and do not speak. They have eyes and do not see.
17 They have ears and do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouth.
18 Those who make them are like them, all who trust in them.
19 Praise the LORD, you House of Israel! Praise the LORD, you House of Aaron!
20 Praise the LORD, you House of Levi! You who fear the LORD, praise the LORD!
21 Praise the LORD out of Zion, Who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the LORD!
4 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the High Priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the Door, to bring all the vessels that were made for Baal (and for the grove and for all the host of heaven) out of the Temple of the LORD. And he burnt them outside Jerusalem, in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes into Bethel.
5 And he took down the Chemarim, whom the kings of Judah had made to burn incense in the high places, in the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem, and also those that burnt incense to Baal (to the Sun and to the Moon and to the planets and to all the host of heaven).
6 And he brought out the grove from the Temple of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the valley of Kidron, and burnt it in the valley Kidron and stamped it to powder and cast its dust upon the graves of the children of the people.
7 And he broke down the houses of the Sodomites who were in the House of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
8 Also, he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and destroyed the high places of the gates that were in the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which was on the left side of the gate of the city.
9 Nevertheless, the priests of the high places did not come up to the Altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, except only when they ate of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10 He also defiled Topheth, which was in the valley of the children of Hinnom, so that no man would make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech.
11 He also took down the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the Sun at the entrance of the House of the LORD, by the chamber of Nethan-Melech the eunuch (who was ruler of the suburbs) and burnt the chariots of the Sun with fire,
12 and the altars that were on the top of the chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made. And the king broke down the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the House of the LORD and quickly went from there and cast the dust of them in the brook Kidron.
13 Moreover, the king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, and on the right hand of the Mount of Corruption (which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built for Ashtoreth, the idol of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh, the idol of the Moabites, and for Milcom, the abomination of the children of Ammon).
14 And he broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15 Furthermore, the altar that was at Bethel (the high place made by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin), both this altar and also the high place, he broke down and burnt (the high place). He stamped them to powder and burnt the grove.
16 And as Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were on the mountain, and sent and took the bones out of the graves and burnt them upon the altar and polluted it, according to the Word of the LORD that the man of God had proclaimed, who cried the same words.
17 Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” And the men of the city said to him, “It is the sepulcher of the man of God, who came from Judah and told these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
18 Then he said, “Let him alone. Let no one remove his bones.” So his bones were saved with the bones of the Prophet who came from Samaria.
19 Josiah also took away all the houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to anger the LORD. And he did to them just as he had done in Bethel.
20 And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there upon the altars, and burnt men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21 Then the king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the Book of this Covenant.”
22 And there was no Passover like that held since the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Judah.
23 And in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.
24 Josiah also took away the mediums and the soothsayers and the images and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, to perform the Words of the Law which were written in the Book that Hilkiah the Priest found in the House of the LORD.
25 There was no king like him before, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses. Nor did there ever arise any like him after.
12 Now, concerning spiritual things, brothers, I would not have you ignorant.
2 You know that you were Gentiles, and were carried away to the dumb idols, as you were led.
3 Therefore, I declare to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed. Also, no one can say that Jesus is the Lord, except by the Holy Ghost.
4 Now, there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are diversities of services, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but God is the same Who works all in all.
7 Yet the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each, for the profit of all.
8 For by the Spirit, the Word of wisdom is given to one; and to another, the Word of knowledge, by the same Spirit;
9 and to another, faith, by the same Spirit; and to another, the gifts of healing, by the same Spirit;
10 and to another, the operations of miracles; and to another, prophecy; and to another, the discerning of spirits; and to another, diversities of tongues; and to another, the interpretation of tongues.
11 Yet, in all these things works one and the same Spirit, distributing to everyone personally, as He will.
18 While He spoke to them, behold, a certain ruler came and worshipped Him, saying, “My daughter is now deceased. But come and lay Your hand on her, and she shall live.”
19 And Jesus arose and followed him, with His disciples.
20 And behold, a woman who had been diseased with an issue of blood for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the hem of His garment.
21 For she said to herself, “If I may touch but His garment only, I shall be whole.”
22 Then Jesus turned around. And seeing her, He said, “Daughter, be encouraged. Your faith has made you whole.” And the woman was made whole at that same moment.
23 Now when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flutists and the multitude making noise,
24 He said to them, “Leave. For the maid is not dead, but sleeps.” And they laughed Him to scorn.
25 And when the multitude had been cast out, He went in and took her by the hand. And the maid arose.
26 And report of this went throughout all that land.
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