Book of Common Prayer
To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.
1 ¶ Let the LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; let the name of the God of Jacob lift thee up
2 and send thee help from the sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Zion
3 and remember all thy offerings and reduce thy burnt sacrifice to the ashes of burnt fat, Selah.
4 Grant thee according to thine heart and fulfil all thy counsel.
5 We will rejoice in thy saving health, and in the name of our God we will be standard-bearers: let the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
6 ¶ Now know I that the LORD has kept his anointed; he will hear him from the heavens of his holiness with the saving valour of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
8 They are brought down and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright.
9 The LORD saves the king; let him hear us on the day when we call.
To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.
1 ¶ The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy saving health how greatly shall he rejoice!
2 Thou hast given him his heart’s desire and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
3 For thou givest him beforehand the blessings of goodness; thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
4 He asked life of thee, and thou didst give him length of days for ever and ever.
5 His glory is great in thy saving health; honour and beauty hast thou laid upon him.
6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever; thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
7 ¶ For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies; thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger; the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth and their seed from among the children of men.
11 For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a wicked device, but they did not prevail.
12 Therefore shalt thou separate them; thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy valour.
A Psalm of David.
1 ¶ The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion; rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauty of holiness; as the dew which falls from the womb of the morning, thus shall those who are thine be born unto thee.
4 The LORD has sworn and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 ¶ The Lord at thy right hand shall smite the kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the Gentiles; he shall fill their places with dead bodies; he shall wound the head over much of the earth.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore he shall lift up his head.
1 ¶ I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.
2 Because he has inclined his ear unto me, therefore I will call upon him all of my days.
3 The sorrows of death compassed me and the pains of Sheol found me; I encountered trouble and sorrow.
4 Then I called upon the name of the LORD, saying, O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
6 The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and he saved me.
7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with thee.
8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
10 ¶ I believed, therefore I spoke, and was greatly afflicted;
11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
13 I will take the cup of saving health and invoke the name of the LORD.
14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his merciful ones.
16 This is so, O LORD, because I am thy slave; I am thy slave, the son of thine handmaid; thou hast loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer unto thee the sacrifice of praise and will invoke the name of the LORD.
18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,
19 in the courts of the LORD’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Halelu-JAH.
1 ¶ O praise the LORD, all ye Gentiles; praise him, all ye peoples.
2 For he has greatly increased his mercy upon us; and the truth of the LORD endures for ever. Halelu-JAH.
9 ¶ Then Job answered and said,
10 ¶ My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; cause me to understand why thou dost contend with me.
3 Is it good unto thee that thou should oppress, that thou should reject the work of thine hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?
5 Are thy days as the days of man? Are thy years as man’s days,
6 that thou dost enquire after my iniquity and search after my sin?
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is no one that can deliver out of thy hand.
8 ¶ Thine hands have formed me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
9 Remember now that thou hast formed me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
16 And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me.
17 Thou dost renew thy plagues against me and increase thine indignation upon me, bringing up armies against me.
18 Why then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit and no eye had seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 before I go, to not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
11 ¶ And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
2 When Peter was come up to Jerusalem, those that were of the circumcision contended with him,
3 saying, Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised and eat with them?
4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning and expounded it by order unto them, saying,
5 I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a rapture of understanding I saw a vision: A certain vessel descended like a great sheet let down from heaven by the four corners, and it came unto me,
6 upon which when I had fastened my eyes, I considered and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild beasts and reptiles and fowls of the air.
7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter, slay and eat.
8 But I said, Not so, Lord, for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.
9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, do not call common.
10 And this was done three times, and it was all drawn up again into heaven.
11 And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.
12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, doubting nothing. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house:
13 And he showed us how he had seen an angel in his house, who stood and said unto him, Send to Joppa and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter,
14 who shall tell thee words, by which thou and all thy house shall be saved.
15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, when he said, John indeed baptized in water, but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
17 So then, if God gave them the same gift as he did unto us, who have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I should withstand God?
18 When they heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted repentance unto life to the Gentiles.
12 ¶ Then Jesus spoke again unto them, saying, I AM the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.
13 Then the Pharisees said unto him, Thou dost bear witness of thyself; thy witness is not true.
14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true, for I know from where I came and where I go; but ye do not know where I came from and where I go.
15 Ye judge after the flesh, but I judge no one.
16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
17 It is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.
18 I AM one that bears witness of myself, and the Father that sent me bears witness of me.
19 Then they said unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father; if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury as he taught in the temple, and no one laid hands on him, for his hour was not yet come.
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