Book of Common Prayer
97 The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of isles be glad thereof!
2 Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and judgment are the habitation of His throne.
3 A fire goeth before Him, and burneth up His enemies round about.
4 His lightnings enlightened the world; the earth saw and trembled.
5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare His righteousness, and all the people see His glory.
7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols. Worship Him, all ye gods!
8 Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of Thy judgments, O Lord.
9 For Thou, Lord, art high above all the earth; Thou art exalted far above all gods.
10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil! He preserveth the souls of His saints; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness.
99 The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble! He sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved!
2 The Lord is great in Zion, and He is high above all the people.
3 Let them praise Thy great and fearsome name, for it is holy.
4 The King’s strength also loveth judgment; Thou dost establish equity; Thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool, for He is holy!
6 Moses and Aaron are among His priests, and Samuel among them that call upon His name; they called upon the Lord, and He answered them.
7 He spoke unto them in the cloudy pillar; they kept His testimonies and the ordinance that He gave them.
8 Thou didst answer them, O Lord our God; Thou wast a God that forgavest them, though Thou took vengeance on their inventions.
9 Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
100 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands!
2 Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing!
3 Know ye that the Lord, He is God; it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves. We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise! Be thankful unto Him, and bless His name!
5 For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endureth to all generations.
94 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth—O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show Thyself.
2 Lift up Thyself, Thou judge of the earth; render to the proud their due reward.
3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things, and all the workers of iniquity boast?
5 They break in pieces Thy people, O Lord, and afflict Thine heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, “The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.”
8 Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?
10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not He correct? He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not He know?
11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom Thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of Thy law,
13 that Thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be dug for the wicked.
14 For the Lord will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, “My foot slippeth,” Thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the Lord is my defense, and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And He shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off!
95 O come, let us sing unto the Lord! Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms.
3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In His hand are the deep places of the earth; the strength of the hills is His also.
5 The sea is His, and He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if ye will hear His voice:
8 “Harden not your heart as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness
9 when your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said ‘It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’
11 Unto them I swore in My wrath, that they should not enter into My rest.”
20 And the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
21 “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.”
22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt Thou be wroth with all the congregation?”
23 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,
24 “Speak unto the congregation, saying, ‘Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’”
25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.
26 And he spoke unto the congregation, saying, “Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.”
27 So they got up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram on every side; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives and their sons and their little children.
28 And Moses said, “Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of mine own mind.
29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited according to the visitation of all men, then the Lord hath not sent me.
30 But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them up with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.”
31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground cleaved asunder that was under them;
32 and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses and all the men who appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
33 They and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them; and they perished from among the congregation.
34 And all Israel who were round about them fled at the cry of them, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up also!”
35 And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who offered incense.
4 What shall we say then that Abraham our father hath found pertaining to the flesh?
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath reason to glory, but not before God.
3 For what saith the Scripture? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.”
4 Now to him that worketh, his reward is reckoned not according to grace, but according to debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth in Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness,
6 even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying,
7 “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.”
9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the Circumcision only, or upon the Uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision!
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had, yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also,
12 and the father of circumcision to those who are not of the Circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had, being yet uncircumcised.
23 Then said Jesus unto His disciples, “Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
24 And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.”
25 When His disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
26 But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
27 Then Peter answered and said unto Him, “Behold, we have forsaken all and followed Thee. What shall we have therefore?”
28 And Jesus said unto them, “Verily I say unto you, that ye that have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man shall sit on the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
29 And everyone that hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit everlasting life.
30 But many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.
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