Book of Common Prayer
34 I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear thereof and be glad.
3 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.
4 I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5 They looked unto Him and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed.
6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them.
8 O taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that trusteth in Him!
9 O fear the Lord, ye His saints! For them that fear Him suffer no want.
10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
14 Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry.
16 The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
20 He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked, and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
22 The Lord redeemeth the soul of His servants, and none of them that trust in Him shall be desolate.
33 Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous! For praise is comely for the upright.
2 Praise the Lord with the harp; sing unto Him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
3 Sing unto Him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.
4 For the word of the Lord is right, and all His works are done in truth.
5 He loveth righteousness and judgment; the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; He layeth up the deep in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.
10 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought; He maketh the devices of the people of no effect.
11 The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance.
13 The Lord looketh down from heaven; He beholdeth all of the sons of men.
14 From the place of His habitation He looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth;
15 He fashioneth the hearts of all; He considereth all their works.
16 No king is saved by the multitude of an army; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
17 A horse is a vain thing for safety; neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Him, upon them that hope in His mercy,
19 to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waiteth for the Lord; He is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name.
22 Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in Thee.
19 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and also how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”
3 And when he saw that, he arose and went for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”
5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him and said unto him, “Arise and eat.”
6 And he looked, and behold, there was a cake baked on the coals and a cruse of water at his head. And he ate and drank, and lay down again.
7 And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for thee.”
8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
4 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
2 with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love,
3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8 Therefore He saith, “When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.”
9 (Now the saying, “He ascended” — what does it mean but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He that descended is the same who also ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.)
11 And He gave some to be apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
12 for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry, and for the edifying of the body of Christ,
13 until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we henceforth be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and their cunning and craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, even Christ,
16 from whom the whole body, fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
6 After these things Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee which is the Sea of Tiberias.
2 And a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His miracles which He did on those who were diseased.
3 And Jesus went up onto a mountain, and there He sat with His disciples.
4 Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
5 And when Jesus lifted up His eyes and saw a great company coming unto Him, He said unto Philip, “Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?”
6 And this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.
7 Philip answered Him, “Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.”
8 One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said unto Him,
9 “There is a lad here who hath five barley loaves and two small fishes, but what are they among so many?”
10 And Jesus said, “Make the men sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place; so the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
11 And Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; and likewise of the fishes, as much as they wanted.
12 When they were filled, He said unto His disciples, “Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.”
13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above, unto them that had eaten.
14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus had done, said, “This is in truth that Prophet who is coming into the world!”
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