Book of Common Prayer
38 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chastise me in Your wrath.
2 For Your arrows have pierced me deeply; and Your hand lies upon me.
3 Because of Your anger, there is nothing sound in my flesh; nor is there rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; as a weighty burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds are putrefied, and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
6 I am bowed, and very troubled. I go mourning all day long.
7 For my core is full of burning; and there is nothing sound in my flesh.
8 I am weakened and very broken: I roar for the very grief of my heart.
9 LORD, I pour my whole desire before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.
10 My heart pants. My strength fails me, and the light of my eyes. Even they are not my own.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aside from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12 Also, those who seek after my life lay snares; and those who go about to do me evil talk wicked things and imagine deceit continually.
13 But I, as a deaf man, did not hear. I am as a dumb man who does not open his mouth.
14 Thus I am as a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
15 For on You, O LORD, I wait. You will hear, my LORD. My God.
16 For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they extol themselves against me.”
17 Surely, I am ready to halt; and my sorrow is ever before me.
18 When I declare my pain, and am sorry for my sin,
19 then my enemies are alive and are mighty; and those who hate me wrongfully are many.
20 Also, those who reward evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow goodness.
21 Do not forsake me, O LORD. Do not be far from me, my God.
22 Hasten to help me, O my LORD. My Salvation. To the excellent musician, Jeduthun: A Psalm of David.
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25 My soul clings to the dust, quicken me according to Your Word.
26 I have declared my ways, and You heard me. Teach me Your Statutes.
27 Make me to understand the way of Your Precepts, and I will meditate on Your wondrous works.
28 My soul melts for heaviness, raise me up according to Your Word.
29 Take from me the way of lying and grant me graciously Your Law.
30 I have chosen the way of truth and Your Judgments have I laid before me.
31 I have clung to Your Testimonies, O LORD, do not confound me.
32 I will run the way of Your Commandments, when You shall enlarge my heart.
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33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your Statutes, and I will keep it to the end.
34 Give me understanding and I will keep Your Law, yea, I will keep it with my whole heart.
35 Direct me in the path of Your Commandments, for therein is my delight.
36 Incline my heart to Your Testimonies, and not to covetousness.
37 Turn away my eyes from vanity and quicken me in Your way.
38 Establish Your Promise in Your servant, because he fears You.
39 Take away my rebuke, which I fear, for Your Judgments are good.
40 Behold, I desire Your Commandments, quicken me in Your righteousness.
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41 And let Your lovingkindness come to me, O LORD, and Your salvation, according to Your Promise.
42 So shall I answer to my blasphemers, for I trust in Your Word.
43 And take not the Word of Truth utterly out of my mouth, for I await Your Judgments.
44 So shall I always keep Your Law forever and ever.
45 And I will walk in freedom, because I seek Your Precepts.
46 I will speak also of Your Testimonies before kings and will not be ashamed.
47 My delight will be in Your Commandments, which I have loved.
48 My hands, also, will I lift to Your Commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate on Your Statutes.
8 Thus has the LORD God shown to me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then said the LORD to me, “The end has come upon my people of Israel. I will pass by them no more.
3 “And the songs of the Temple shall be howlings on that day,” said the LORD God. “Many dead bodies shall be in every place. They shall cast them forth with silence.”
4 “Hear this, O you who swallow up the poor and may make the needy of the land fail,
5 saying, ‘When will the new month be gone, that we may sell corn; and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat and make the ephah small and the shekel great and falsify the weights by deceit?
6 ‘That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat.’”
7 The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, “Surely, I will never forget any of their works.
8 “Shall not the land tremble for this; and everyone mourn who dwells therein? And it shall rise up, wholly as a flood, and it shall be cast out and drowned as by the flood of Egypt.
9 “And on that day,” says the LORD God, “I will even cause the Sun to go down at noon. I will darken the Earth in the clear day.
10 “And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head. And I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD God, “that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Word of the LORD.
12 “And they shall wander from sea to sea. And from the north even to the east shall they run to and fro, to seek the Word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
13 “On that day shall the fair virgins and the young men perish for thirst.
14 “Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and who say, ‘Your God, O Dan, lives!” and, “The manner of Beersheba lives!” even they shall fall and never rise up again.
17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. Then He laid His right hand upon me, saying to me, “Fear not. I am the first and the last.
18 And I am alive, but I was dead. And behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hell and of death.
19 “Write these things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall come hereafter.
20 “The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand - and the seven golden candlesticks - is this: ‘The seven stars are the angels of the seven Churches. And the seven candlesticks which you saw are the seven Churches.
2 “To the angel of the Church of Ephesus, write these things:” says He Who holds the seven stars in His right hand and walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks.
2 “I know your works, and your labor, and your patience. And how you cannot bear with those who are evil; and have examined those who say they are Apostles and are not and have found them liars.
3 “And you were burdened and had patience; and for my Name’s sake have labored and have not fainted.
4 “Nevertheless, I have somewhat against you, because you have left your first love.
5 “Remember therefore from where you have fallen. And repent and do the works you did at first. Or else I will come against you shortly and will remove your candlestick out of its place unless you repent.
6 “But this you have: that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
7 “Let him who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the Churches, ‘To him who overcomes will I give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.’
23 Then Jesus spoke to the multitude, and to His disciples,
2 saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
3 “Therefore, all of whatever they ask you to observe, observe and do. But do not imitate their deeds, for they do not do as they say.
4 “For they bind heavy burdens, and hard to bear, and lay them on man’s shoulders. But they themselves will not lift a finger to move them.
5 “They do all their works to be seen by man. For they make their phylacteries broad, and the fringes of their garments long.
6 “And they love the chief place at feasts, and to have the chief seats in the assemblies;
7 “and greetings in the markets, and to be called by man, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’
8 “But do not be called, ‘Rabbi’. For One is your Master - Christ, and all of you are brothers.
9 “And call no man your father upon the Earth. For there is but One, your Father Who is in Heaven.
10 “Do not be called ‘Masters’. For One is your Master - Christ.
11 “But the one who is greatest among you, let him be your servant.
12 “For whoever will exalt himself shall be brought low. And whoever will humble himself shall be exalted.
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