Book of Common Prayer

¶ A Song of degrees.

¹ LORD, remember David and all his afflictions:

² How he swore unto the LORD and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;

³ surely I will not come into the habitation of my house nor go up into my bed,

⁴ I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

⁵ until I find out a place for the LORD, a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

⁶ Behold, we heard of her in Ephratah; we found her in the fields of the wood.

⁷ We will go into his tents; we will worship at his footstool.

⁸ Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.

⁹ Thy priests are clothed with righteousness, and thy merciful ones shout for joy.

¹⁰ For the love of thy slave David, do not turn away thy face from thine anointed.

¹¹ ¶ The LORD has sworn truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body I will set upon thy throne.

¹² If thy sons will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their sons shall also sit upon thy throne for ever.

¹³ For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired her for his habitation.

¹⁴ This shall be my rest for ever; here I will dwell; for I have desired her.

¹⁵ I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread.

¹⁶ I will also clothe her priests with saving health, and her merciful ones shall shout aloud for joy.

¹⁷ There will I make the horn of David to bud; I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

¹⁸ His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon himself shall his crown blossom.

11 ¶ And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

² And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD,

³ and shall make him of quick olfaction in the fear of the LORD; and he shall not judge according to the sight of his eyes, neither reprove according to the hearing of his ears:

⁴ But with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the spirit of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

⁵ And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faith the girdle of his kidneys.

⁶ The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a child shall shepherd them.

⁷ The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

⁸ And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.

⁹ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰ ¶ And it shall be in that day that the Root of Jesse, who shall be lifted up as a banner, as an example to the Gentiles shall be sought by the Gentiles; and his Kingdom of peace shall be glorious.

¹¹ For both he that sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

¹² saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee.

¹³ And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me.

¹⁴ ¶ Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the empire of death, that is, the devil,

¹⁵ and deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to slavery.

¹⁶ For verily he did not take the angels, but he took the seed of Abraham.

¹⁷ Therefore in all things he should be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

¹⁸ For in that he himself has suffered and was tempted, he is also powerful to help those that are tempted.