Book of Common Prayer

A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

63 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:

² To see thy power and thy glory, as I have beheld thee in the sanctuary;

³ For thy loving-kindness is better than life: my lips shall praise thee.

⁴ So will I bless thee while I live; I will lift up my hands in thy name.

⁵ My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips.

⁶ When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches:

⁷ For thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings will I sing for joy.

⁸ My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

⁹ But those that seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth;

¹⁰ They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be the portion of foxes.

¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: for the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

A Psalm.

98 Sing ye unto Jehovah a new song: for he hath done wondrous things; his right hand and his holy arm hath wrought salvation for him.

² Jehovah hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the nations.

³ He hath remembered his loving-kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁴ Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth; break forth and shout for joy, and sing psalms.

⁵ Sing psalms unto Jehovah with the harp: with the harp, and the voice of a song;

⁶ With trumpets and sound of cornet, make a joyful noise before the King, Jehovah.

⁷ Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein;

⁸ Let the floods clap [their] hands; let the mountains sing for joy together,

⁹ Before Jehovah, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

[A Psalm] of David.

103 Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all that is within me, [bless] his holy name!

² Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

³ Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases;

⁴ Who redeemeth thy life from the pit, who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;

⁵ Who satisfieth thine old age with good [things]; thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

⁶ Jehovah executeth righteousness and justice for all that are oppressed.

⁷ He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

⁸ Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.

⁹ He will not always chide, neither will he keep [his anger] for ever.

¹⁰ He hath not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

¹¹ For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving-kindness toward them that fear him.

¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

¹³ As a father pitieth [his] children, so Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.

¹⁴ For himself knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:

¹⁶ For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.

¹⁷ But the loving-kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting and to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children,

¹⁸ To such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his precepts to do them.

¹⁹ Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all.

²⁰ Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, mighty in strength, that execute his word, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

²¹ Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his that do his will.

²² Bless Jehovah, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless Jehovah, O my soul!

8 Every commandment which I command thee this day shall ye take heed to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and enter in and possess the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers.

² And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.

³ And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with the manna, which thou hadst not known, and which thy fathers knew not; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.

⁴ Thy clothing grew not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

⁵ And know in thy heart that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee;

⁶ and thou shalt keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

⁷ For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of water-brooks, of springs, and of deep waters, that gush forth in the valleys and hills;

⁸ a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;

⁹ a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, where thou shalt lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose mountains thou wilt dig copper.

¹⁰ And thou shalt eat and be filled, and shalt bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

¹⁷ For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain.

¹⁸ For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power.

¹⁹ For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.

²⁰ Where [is the] wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe.

²² Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom;

²³ but *we* preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offence, and to nations foolishness;

²⁴ but to those that [are] called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God's power and God's wisdom.

²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

²⁶ For consider your calling, brethren, that [there are] not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.

²⁷ But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;

²⁸ and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, [and] things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;

²⁹ so that no flesh should boast before God.

³⁰ But of him are *ye* in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption;

³¹ that according as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in [the] Lord.

¹⁸ And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting; and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and [the disciples] of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?

¹⁹ And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

²⁰ But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, and then shall they fast in that day.

²¹ No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment: otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old [stuff], and there is a worse rent.

²² And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into new skins.