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Book of Common Prayer

Daily Old and New Testament readings based on the Book of Common Prayer.
Duration: 861 days
Darby Translation (DARBY)
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Psalm 97

97 Jehovah reigneth: let the earth be glad, let the many isles rejoice.

Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his adversaries round about.

His lightnings lightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.

Ashamed be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols. Worship him, all ye gods.

Zion heard, and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judah were glad, because of thy judgments, O Jehovah.

For thou, Jehovah, art the Most High above all the earth; thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.

10 Ye that love Jehovah, 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 joy for the upright in heart.

12 Rejoice in Jehovah, ye righteous; and give thanks in remembrance of his holiness.

Psalm 99-100

99 Jehovah reigneth: let the peoples tremble. He sitteth [between the] cherubim: let the earth be moved.

Jehovah is great in Zion, and he is high above all the peoples.

They shall praise thy great and terrible name,—it is holy!—

And the strength of the king that loveth justice. *Thou* hast established equity: it is thou that executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

Exalt Jehovah our God, and worship at his footstool. He is holy!

Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name: they called unto Jehovah, and *he* answered them.

He spoke unto them in the pillar of cloud: they kept his testimonies, and the statute that he gave them.

Jehovah, our God, *thou* answeredst them: a forgiving God wast thou unto them, though thou tookest vengeance of their doings.

Exalt Jehovah our God, and worship at the hill of his holiness; for holy is Jehovah our God.

A Psalm of thanksgiving.

100 Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth!

Serve Jehovah with joy: come before his presence with exultation.

Know that Jehovah is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving [and] into his courts with praise; give thanks unto him, bless his name:

For Jehovah is good; his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever; and his faithfulness from generation to generation.

Psalm 94-95

94 O God of vengeances, Jehovah, God of vengeances, shine forth;

Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render the reward to the proud.

How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?

[How long] shall they utter [and] speak insolence—all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance;

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,

And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard [it].

Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

10 He that instructeth the nations, shall not he correct—he that teacheth man knowledge?

11 Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jah, and whom thou teachest out of thy law;

13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

14 For Jehovah will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;

15 For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

16 Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?

17 If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

18 When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

19 In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul.

20 Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?

21 They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

22 But Jehovah will be my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.

23 And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.

95 Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;

Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms.

For Jehovah is a great God, and a great king above all gods.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also:

The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry [land].

Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,

Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah, in the wilderness;

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

10 Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

11 So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.

Jeremiah 17:19-27

19 Thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

20 and say unto them, Hear the word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates;

21 thus saith Jehovah: Take heed to your souls, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, and bring nothing in through the gates of Jerusalem;

22 and carry forth no burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do any work; but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers,

23 but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but hardened their neck, that they might not hear nor receive instruction.

24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, and to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

25 then shall there enter in, through the gates of this city, kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.

26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the south, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and oblations, and incense, and bringing thanksgiving unto the house of Jehovah.

27 But if ye will not hearken unto me, to hallow the sabbath day and not to bear a burden and enter in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

Romans 7:13-25

13 Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under sin.

15 For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

16 But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.

17 Now then [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.

19 For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

20 But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

21 I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there.

22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

23 but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.

24 O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

25 I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then *I* *myself* with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law.

John 6:16-27

16 But when evening was come, his disciples went down to the sea,

17 and having gone on board ship, they went over the sea to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not come to them,

18 and the sea was agitated by a strong wind blowing.

19 Having rowed then about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they see Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the ship; and they were frightened.

20 But he says to them, It is I: be not afraid.

21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the ship; and immediately the ship was at the land to which they went.

22 On the morrow the crowd which stood on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other little ship there except that into which his disciples had got, and that Jesus had not gone with his disciples into the ship, but [that] his disciples had gone away alone;

23 (but other little ships out of Tiberias came near to the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks;)

24 when therefore the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, *they* got into the ships, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

25 And having found him the other side of the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when art thou arrived here?

26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me not because ye have seen signs, but because ye have eaten of the loaves and been filled.

27 Work not [for] the food which perishes, but [for] the food which abides unto life eternal, which the Son of man shall give to you; for him has the Father sealed, [even] God.