Book of Common Prayer

81 A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

² How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

³ Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

⁴ Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.

⁵ They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

⁶ I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

⁷ But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

⁸ Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.

82 A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.

² O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.

³ For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

⁴ They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.

⁵ They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

⁶ For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee,

⁷ The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismahelites: Moab, and the Agarens,

⁸ Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁹ Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.

¹⁰ Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.

¹¹ Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.

¹² Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes,

¹³ Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.

¹⁴ O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

¹⁵ As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:

¹⁶ So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.

¹⁷ Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.

¹⁸ Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.

¹⁹ And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.

9 And David said: Is there any one, think you, left of the house of Saul, that I may shew kindness to him for Jonathan's sake?

² Now there was of the house of Saul, a servant named Siba: and when the king had called him to him, he said to him: Art thou Siba? And he answered: I am Siba thy servant.

³ And the king said: Is there any one left of the house of Saul, that I may shew the mercy of God unto him? And Siba said to the king: There is a son of Jonathan left, who is lame of his feet.

⁴ Where is he? said he. And Siba said to the king: Behold he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel in Lodabar.

⁵ Then king David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodabar.

⁶ And when Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul was come to David, he fell on his face and worshipped. And David said: Miphiboseth? And he answered: Behold thy servant.

⁷ And David said to him: Fear not, for I will surely shew thee mercy for Jonathan thy father's sake, and I will restore the lands of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eat bread at my table always.

⁸ He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?

⁹ Then the king called Siba the servant of Saul, and said to him: All that belonged to Saul, and all his house, I have given to thy master's son.

¹⁰ Thou therefore and thy sons and thy servants shall till the land for him: and thou shalt bring in food for thy master's son, that he may be maintained: and Miphiboseth the son of thy master shall always eat bread at my table. And Siba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

¹¹ And Siba said to the king: As thou my lord the king hast commanded thy servant, so will thy servant do: and Miphiboseth shall eat at my table, as one of the sons of the king.

¹² And Miphiboseth had a young son whose name was Micha: and all the kindred of the house of Siba served Miphiboseth.

¹³ But Miphiboseth dwelt in Jerusalem: because he ate always of the king's table: and he was lame of both feet.

19 And it came to pass, while Apollo was at Corinth, that Paul having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.

² And he said to them: Have you received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? But they said to him: We have not so much as heard whether there be a Holy Ghost.

³ And he said: In what then were you baptized? Who said: In John's baptism.

⁴ Then Paul said: John baptized the people with the baptism of penance, saying: That they should believe in him who was to come after him, that is to say, in Jesus.

⁵ Having heard these things, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

⁶ And when Paul had imposed his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

⁷ And all the men were about twelve.

⁸ And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly for the space of three months, disputing and exhorting concerning the kingdom of God.

⁹ But when some were hardened, and believed not, speaking evil of the way of the Lord, before the multitude, departing from them, he separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

¹⁰ And this continued for the space of two years, so that all they who dwelt in Asia, heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Gentiles.

³⁴ And calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to them: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

³⁵ For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it.

³⁶ For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

³⁷ Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

³⁸ For he that shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation: the Son of man also will be ashamed of him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

³⁹ And he said to them: Amen I say to you, that there are some of them that stand here, who shall not taste death, till they see the kingdom of God coming in power.

9 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter and James and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves, and was transfigured before them.