Book of Common Prayer
KOPH.
145 ¶ I cried with my whole heart; answer me, O LORD, and I will keep thy statutes.
146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
147 ¶ I arose before the dawning of the morning and cried: I waited in thy word.
148 My eyes anticipate the night watches that I might meditate in thy spoken word.
149 ¶ Hear my voice according to thy mercy; O LORD, cause me to live according to thy judgment.
150 ¶ Those that persecute me draw near unto evil; they have strayed from thy law.
151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
152 ¶ Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
RESH.
153 ¶ Consider my affliction and deliver me; for I have not forgotten thy law.
154 Plead my cause and redeem me; quicken me according to thy spoken word.
155 ¶ Saving health is far from the wicked, for they do not seek thy statutes.
156 ¶ Many are thy tender mercies, O LORD: cause me to live according to thy judgments.
157 ¶ Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet I do not deviate from thy testimonies.
158 ¶ I beheld the transgressors and was grieved because they did not keep thy words.
159 ¶ Consider, O LORD, that I love thy precepts; cause me to live according to thy mercy.
160 ¶ The beginning of thy word is truth, and every one of the judgments of thy righteousness is eternal.
SCHIN.
161 ¶ Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of thy words.
162 ¶ I rejoice at thy spoken word, as one that finds great spoil.
163 ¶ I hate and abhor lying, but I love thy law.
164 ¶ Seven times a day do I praise thee because of the judgments of thy righteousness.
165 ¶ Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing shall cause them to stumble.
166 ¶ LORD, I have waited for thy saving health and done thy commandments.
167 ¶ My soul has kept thy testimonies, and I have loved them exceedingly.
168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies, for all my ways are before thee.
18 ¶ And the LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I experienced it: then thou didst show me their doings.
19 But I was like a ram or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; for I did not understand that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living that his name may no longer be remembered.
20 But, O LORD of the hosts, that judges righteously, that tries the kidneys and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them, for unto thee I have uncovered my cause.
21 Therefore, thus hath the LORD said regarding the men of Anathoth that seek thy life, saying, Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD that thou not die by our hand;
22 therefore, thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Behold, I visit: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
23 and there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
16 ¶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore prudent as serpents and innocent as doves.
17 But keep yourselves from men, for they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
18 and ye shall even be brought before princes and kings for my sake, for testimony unto them and to the Gentiles.
19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
21 And brother shall deliver up brother unto death, and the father the child, and children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.
22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
Aleph
1 ¶ Halelu-JAH. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD,
Beth
that delights greatly in his commandments.
Gimel
2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth;
Daleth
the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
He
3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house;
Vau
and his righteousness endures for ever.
Zain
4 A light has shined in the darkness upon the upright:
Cheth
Gracious and merciful and righteous.
Teth
5 A good man has mercy and lends;
Jod
He will govern his affairs with good judgment.
Caph
6 ¶ Surely he shall not be moved for ever;
Lamed
the righteous shall be in eternal remembrance.
Mem
7 He shall not be afraid of evil rumours;
Nun
his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
Samech
8 His heart is established; he shall not be afraid,
Ain
until he sees his desire upon his enemies.
Pe
9 He has dispersed; he has given to the poor;
Tzaddi
his righteousness endures for ever;
Koph
his horn shall be exalted in glory.
Resh
10 The wicked shall see it and be furious;
Schin
he shall gnash with his teeth and waste away:
Tau
The desire of the wicked shall perish.
A Song of degrees.
1 ¶ Those that trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed but abides for ever.
2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from now on even for ever.
3 For the rod of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous because the righteous shall not put forth their hands unto iniquity.
4 ¶ Do good, O LORD, unto those that are good and to those that are upright in their hearts.
5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall take them away with the workers of iniquity; and peace shall be upon Israel.
12 Therefore, lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
13 and make straight steps unto your feet, so that which is lame will not turn out of the way, but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with everyone and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:
15 looking diligently that no one deviate from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up impede you, and thereby many be defiled,
16 lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 ¶ For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest
19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which voice those that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more;
20 (for they could not endure that which was commanded, and if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart:
21 and so terrible was the sight that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake);
22 but ye are come unto Mount Sion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 to the congregation of the called out ones of the firstborn, who are registered in the heavens and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect
24 and to Jesus, the mediator of the new testament and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better than that of Abel.
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