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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 105

105 Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; make known his acts among the peoples.

Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; meditate upon all his wondrous works.

Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.

Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;

Remember his wondrous works which he hath done, his miracles and the judgments of his mouth:

Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

He, Jehovah, is our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

He is ever mindful of his covenant,—the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,—

Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;

10 And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto Israel for an everlasting covenant,

11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;

12 When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.

13 And they went from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

14 He suffered no man to oppress them, and reproved kings for their sakes,

15 [Saying,] Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.

16 And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.

17 He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.

18 They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons;

19 Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.

20 The king sent and loosed him—the ruler of peoples—and let him go free.

21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler over all his possessions:

22 To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.

23 And Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

24 And he made his people exceeding fruitful, and made them mightier than their oppressors.

25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

26 He sent Moses his servant, [and] Aaron whom he had chosen:

27 They set his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

29 He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.

30 Their land swarmed with frogs,—in the chambers of their kings.

31 He spoke, and there came dog-flies, [and] gnats in all their borders.

32 He gave them hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land;

33 And he smote their vines and their fig-trees, and broke the trees of their borders.

34 He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;

35 And they devoured every herb in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.

36 And he smote every firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigour.

37 And he brought them forth with silver and gold; and there was not one feeble among their tribes.

38 Egypt rejoiced at their departure; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

39 He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.

40 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed forth; they ran in the dry places [like] a river.

42 For he remembered his holy word, [and] Abraham his servant;

43 And he brought forth his people with gladness, his chosen with rejoicing;

44 And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the labour of the peoples:

45 That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah!

Hosea 5:8-6:6

Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; cry aloud [at] Beth-aven: behind thee, O Benjamin!

Ephraim shall be a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which is sure.

10 The princes of Judah are become like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because in selfwill he walked after the commandment [of man].

12 And I will be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sore, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb; but he was unable to heal you, nor hath he removed your sore.

14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, I will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

15 I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

After two days will he revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before his face;

and we shall know,—we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth.

What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do unto thee, Judah? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away.

Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and my judgment goeth forth as the light.

For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Acts 21:27-36

27 And when the seven days were nearly completed, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, set all the crowd in a tumult, and laid hands upon him,

28 crying, Israelites, help! this is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and has brought Greeks too into the temple, and profaned this holy place.

29 For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.

30 And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

31 And as they were seeking to kill him, a representation came to the chiliarch of the band that the whole of Jerusalem was in a tumult;

32 who, taking with him immediately soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them. But they, seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul.

33 Then the chiliarch came up and laid hold upon him, and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he might be, and what he had done.

34 And different persons cried some different thing in the crowd. But he, not being able to know the certainty on account of the uproar, commanded him to be brought into the fortress.

35 But when he got upon the stairs it was so that he was borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd.

36 For the multitude of the people followed, crying, Away with him.

Luke 6:1-11

And it came to pass on [the] second-first sabbath, that he went through cornfields, and his disciples were plucking the ears and eating [them], rubbing [them] in their hands.

But some of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what is not lawful to do on the sabbath?

And Jesus answering said to them, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did when he hungered, he and those who were with him,

how he entered into the house of God and took the shewbread and ate, and gave to those also who were with him, which it is not lawful that [any] eat, unless the priests alone?

And he said to them, The Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also.

And it came to pass on another sabbath also that he entered into the synagogue and taught; and there was a man there, and his right hand was withered.

And the scribes and the Pharisees were watching if he would heal on the sabbath, that they might find something of which to accuse him.

But *he* knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Get up, and stand in the midst. And having risen up he stood [there].

Jesus therefore said to them, I will ask you if it is lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy [it]?

10 And having looked around on them all, he said to him, Stretch out thy hand. And he did [so] and his hand was restored as the other.

11 But *they* were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.