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Book of Common Prayer

Daily Old and New Testament readings based on the Book of Common Prayer.
Duration: 861 days
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Psalm 87

Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song.

87 His foundation is in the mountains of holiness.

Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion more than all the habitations of Jacob.

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon among them that know me; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: this [man] was born there.

And of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; and the Most High himself shall establish her.

Jehovah will count, when he inscribeth the peoples, This [man] was born there. Selah.

As well the singers as the dancers [shall say], All my springs are in thee.

Psalm 90

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.

90 Lord, *thou* hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.

Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God.

Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.

For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up:

In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.

For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought.

10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

12 So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.

13 Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

14 Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, according to the years [wherein] we have seen evil.

16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons.

17 And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.

Psalm 136

136 Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever:

Give thanks unto the God of gods, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;

Give thanks unto the Lord of lords, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

To him who alone doeth great wonders, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever:

To him that by understanding made the heavens, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;

To him that stretched out the earth above the waters, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;

To him that made great lights, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;

The sun for rule over the day, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,

The moon and stars for rule over the night, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever:

10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,

11 And brought out Israel from among them, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,

12 With a powerful hand and with a stretched-out arm, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;

13 To him that divided the Red sea into parts, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,

14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,

15 And overturned Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;

16 To him that led his people through the wilderness, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;

17 To him that smote great kings, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,

18 And slew famous kings, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;

19 Sihon king of the Amorites, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,

20 And Og king of Bashan, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;

21 And gave their land for an inheritance, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,

22 An inheritance unto Israel his servant, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever:

23 Who hath remembered us in our low estate, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;

24 And hath delivered us from our oppressors, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever:

25 Who giveth food to all flesh, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

26 Give ye thanks unto the God of the heavens; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

Hosea 1:1-2

The word of Jehovah that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

The beginning of the word of Jehovah through Hosea. And Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms, and children of whoredoms; for the land is entirely given up to whoredom, away from Jehovah.

And he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived and bore him a son.

And Jehovah said unto him, Call his name Jizreel; for yet a little, and I will visit the blood of Jizreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jizreel.

And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And he said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, so that I should pardon them.

But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by Jehovah their God; and I will not save them by bow, or by sword, or by battle, [or] by horses, or by horsemen.

And she weaned Lo-ruhamah; and she conceived and bore a son;

and he said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be for you.

10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Sons of the living God.

11 And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up out of the land: for great is the day of Jizreel.

Say unto your brethren Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

Acts 20:1-16

20 But after the tumult had ceased, Paul having called the disciples to [him] and embraced [them], went away to go to Macedonia.

And having passed through those parts, and having exhorted them with much discourse, he came to Greece.

And having spent three months [there], a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, [the] resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia.

And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater [son] of Pyrrhus, a Berean; and of Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius and Timotheus of Derbe, and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

These going before waited for us in Troas;

but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and we came to them to Troas in five days, where we spent seven days.

And the first day of the week, we being assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed to them, about to depart on the morrow. And he prolonged the discourse till midnight.

And there were many lights in the upper room where we were assembled.

And a certain youth, by name Eutychus, sitting at the window-opening, overpowered by deep sleep, while Paul discoursed very much at length, having been overpowered by the sleep, fell from the third story down to the bottom, and was taken up dead.

10 But Paul descending fell upon him, and enfolding [him] [in his arms], said, Be not troubled, for his life is in him.

11 And having gone up, and having broken the bread, and eaten, and having long spoken until daybreak, so he went away.

12 And they brought [away] the boy alive, and were no little comforted.

13 And we, having gone before on board ship, sailed off to Assos, going to take in Paul there; for so he had directed, he himself being about to go on foot.

14 And when he met with us at Assos, having taken him on board, we came to Mitylene;

15 and having sailed thence, on the morrow arrived opposite Chios, and the next day put in at Samos; and having stayed at Trogyllium, the next day we came to Miletus:

16 for Paul thought it desirable to sail by Ephesus, so that he might not be made to spend time in Asia; for he hastened, if it was possible for him, to be the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.

Luke 4:38-44

38 And rising up out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon. But Simon's mother-in-law was suffering under a bad fever; and they asked him for her.

39 And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and forthwith standing up she served them.

40 And when the sun went down, all, as many as had persons sick with divers diseases, brought them to him, and having laid his hands on every one of them, he healed them;

41 and demons also went out from many, crying out and saying, *Thou* art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

42 And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert place, and the crowds sought after him, and came up to him, and [would have] kept him back that he should not go from them.

43 But he said to them, I must needs announce the glad tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for for this I have been sent forth.

44 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.