Book of Common Prayer
119 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
2 Blessed are they that keep His testimonies and that seek Him with the whole heart.
3 They also do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.
4 Thou hast commanded us to keep Thy precepts diligently;
5 O that my ways were directed to keep Thy statutes!
6 Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all Thy commandments.
7 I will praise Thee with uprightness of heart when I shall have learned Thy righteous judgments.
8 I will keep Thy statutes; O forsake me not utterly!
9 How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy word.
10 With my whole heart have I sought Thee; O let me not wander from Thy commandments!
11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee.
12 Blessed art Thou, O Lord; teach me Thy statutes.
13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of Thy mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of Thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
15 I will meditate on Thy precepts and attend unto Thy ways.
16 I will delight myself in Thy statutes; I will not forget Thy word.
17 Deal bountifully with Thy servant, that I may live and keep Thy word.
18 Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law.
19 I am a stranger on the earth; hide not Thy commandments from me.
20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath for Thy judgments at all times.
21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, that err from Thy commandments.
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt, for I have kept Thy testimonies.
23 Princes also sat and spoke against me, but Thy servant meditated on Thy statutes.
24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
12 Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things,
4 who have said, “With our tongue, we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”
5 “For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise,” saith the Lord; “I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.”
6 The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord; Thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
13 How long wilt Thou forget me, O Lord? For ever? How long wilt Thou hide Thy face from me?
2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
4 lest mine enemy say, “I have prevailed against him”; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
5 But I have trusted in Thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in Thy salvation.
6 I will sing unto the Lord, because He hath dealt bountifully with me.
14 The fool hath said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; they have done abominable works; there is none that doeth good.
2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand and seek God.
3 They have all turned aside; they are all together become filthy. There is none that doeth good; no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread and call not upon the Lord?
5 There were they in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When the Lord bringeth back His people from captivity, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad.
6 But Job answered and said:
7 “Is there not an appointed time for man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling?
2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work,
3 so am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise and the night be gone?’ And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and has become loathsome.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 “O remember that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.
8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more; Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
11 Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that Thou settest a watch over me?
13 When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint,’
14 then Thou scarest me with dreams and terrifiest me through visions,
15 so that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
16 I loathe it; I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
17 “What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him, and that Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon him?
18 And that Thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
19 How long wilt Thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
20 I have sinned. What shall I do unto Thee, O Thou preserver of men? Why hast Thou set me as a mark against Thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
21 And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and Thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.”
10 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian Band,
2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his house, who gave many alms to the people and prayed to God always.
3 He saw in a vision clearly, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him and saying unto him, “Cornelius!”
4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid and said, “What is it, lord?” And he said unto him, “Thy prayers and thine alms have risen up as a memorial before God.
5 And now send men to Joppa and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter.
6 He lodgeth with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside; he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.”
7 And when the angel who spoke unto Cornelius had departed, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier from those who waited on him continually.
8 And when he had related all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.
9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour.
10 And he became very hungry and would have eaten; but while they were making ready he fell into a trance,
11 and saw heaven opened and a certain vessel descending unto him as though it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let down to the earth,
12 wherein were all kinds of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him, “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”
14 But Peter said, “Not so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”
15 And the voice spoke unto him again the second time, “What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.”
16 This was done thrice, and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
7 After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee, for He would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.
2 Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.
3 His brethren therefore said unto Him, “Depart hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
4 For no man doeth anything in secret if he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world.”
5 For neither did His brethren believe in Him.
6 Then Jesus said unto them, “My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7 The world cannot hate you, but Me it hateth, because I testify of it that the works thereof are evil.
8 Go ye up unto this feast. I go not up yet unto this feast, for My time is not yet fully come.”
9 When He had said these words unto them, He remained still in Galilee.
10 But when His brethren had gone up, then He also went up unto the feast, not openly but, as it were, in secret.
11 Then the Jews sought Him at the feast and said, “Where is he?”
12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning Him. For some said, “He is a good man,” and others said, “Nay, for he deceiveth the people.”
13 Yet no man spoke openly of Him for fear of the Jews.
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