Book of Common Prayer

To the chief Musician. A Song: a Psalm.

66 Shout aloud unto God, all the earth:

² Sing forth the glory of his name, make his praise glorious;

³ Say unto God, How terrible are thy works! because of the greatness of thy strength, thine enemies come cringing unto thee.

⁴ All the earth shall worship thee, and sing psalms unto thee: they shall sing forth thy name. Selah.

⁵ Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in [his] doings toward the children of men.

⁶ He turned the sea into dry [land]; they went through the river on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

⁷ He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes observe the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

⁸ Bless our God, ye peoples, and make the voice of his praise to be heard;

⁹ Who hath set our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

¹⁰ For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

¹¹ Thou broughtest us into a net, thou didst lay a heavy burden upon our loins;

¹² Thou didst cause men to ride over our head; we went through fire and through water: but thou hast brought us out into abundance.

¹³ I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings; I will perform my vows to thee,

¹⁴ Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

¹⁵ I will offer up unto thee burnt-offerings of fatted beasts, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.

¹⁶ Come, hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

¹⁷ I called unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

¹⁸ Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear.

¹⁹ But God hath heard; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

²⁰ Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his loving-kindness from me!

2 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak with thee.

² And the Spirit entered into me when he spoke unto me, and set me upon my feet; and I heard him that spoke unto me.

³ And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me unto this very day;

⁴ and these children are impudent and hard-hearted: I am sending thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.

⁵ And they, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear—for they are a rebellious house—yet shall they know that there hath been a prophet among them.

⁶ And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, and be not afraid of their words; for briars and thorns are with thee, and thou dwellest among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, and be not dismayed at their faces; for they are a rebellious house.

⁷ And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear; for they are rebellious.

11 And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard that the nations also had received the word of God;

² and when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision contended with him,

³ saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and hast eaten with them.

⁴ But Peter began and set forth [the matter] to them in order, saying,

⁵ I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me:

⁶ on which having fixed mine eyes, I considered, and saw the quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven.

⁷ And I heard also a voice saying to me, Rise up, Peter, slay and eat.

⁸ And I said, In no wise, Lord, for common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.

⁹ And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.

¹⁰ And this took place thrice, and again all was drawn up into heaven;

¹¹ and lo, immediately three men were at the house in which I was, sent to me from Caesarea.

¹² And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, and we entered into the house of the man,

¹³ and he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying [to him], Send [men] to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter,

¹⁴ who shall speak words to thee whereby *thou* shalt be saved, thou and all thy house.

¹⁵ And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them even as upon us also at the beginning.

¹⁶ And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John baptised with water, but *ye* shall be baptised with [the] Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was *I* to be able to forbid God?

¹⁸ And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life.

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

² Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.

³ A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his adversaries round about.

⁴ His lightnings lightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

⁵ The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

⁶ The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.

⁷ Ashamed be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols. Worship him, all ye gods.

⁸ Zion heard, and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judah were glad, because of thy judgments, O Jehovah.

⁹ 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.

[A Psalm] of David.

138 I will give thee thanks with my whole heart; before the gods will I sing psalms of thee.

² I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness, and celebrate thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth; for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

³ In the day when I called thou answeredst me; thou didst encourage me with strength in my soul.

⁴ All the kings of the earth shall celebrate thee, Jehovah, when they have heard the words of thy mouth;

⁵ And they shall sing in the ways of Jehovah, for great is the glory of Jehovah.

⁶ For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off.

⁷ Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the anger of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

⁸ Jehovah will perfect what concerneth me: thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, [endureth] for ever; forsake not the works of thine own hands.

2 Then after a lapse of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with [me];

² and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous [among them], lest in any way I run or had run in vain;

³ (but neither was Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, compelled to be circumcised;)

⁴ and [it was] on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

⁵ to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.

⁶ But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat—whatsoever they were, it makes no difference to me: God does not accept man's person; for to me those who were conspicuous communicated nothing;

⁷ but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of the circumcision,

⁸ (for he that wrought in Peter for [the] apostleship of the circumcision wrought also in me towards the Gentiles,)

⁹ and recognising the grace given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were conspicuous as being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas [the] right hands of fellowship, that *we* [should go] to the nations, and *they* to the circumcision;