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Book of Common Prayer

Daily Old and New Testament readings based on the Book of Common Prayer.
Duration: 861 days
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
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Psalm 20-21

20 The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob defend thee!

May He send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion.

May He remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice. Selah

May He grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfill all thy counsel.

We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners; the Lord fulfill all thy petitions!

Now I know that the Lord saveth His anointed; He will hear him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

They are brought down and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright.

Save us, Lord! Let the King hear us when we call.

21 The king shall rejoice in Thy strength, O Lord; and in Thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

For Thou goest before him with the blessings of goodness; Thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

He asked life of Thee and Thou gavest it to him, even length of days for ever and ever.

His glory is great in Thy salvation; honor and majesty hast Thou laid upon him.

For Thou hast made him most blessed for ever; Thou hast made him exceeding glad with Thy countenance.

For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved.

Thine hand shall find out all Thine enemies; Thy right hand shall find out those that hate Thee.

Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of Thine anger; the Lord shall swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

10 Their fruit shalt Thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

11 For they intended evil against Thee; they contrived a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

12 Therefore shalt Thou make them turn their back when Thou shalt ready Thine arrows upon Thy strings against the face of them.

13 Be Thou exalted, Lord, in Thine own strength; so will we sing and praise Thy power!

Psalm 110

110 The Lord said unto my Lord, “Sit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”

The Lord shall send the rod of Thy strength out of Zion. Rule Thou in the midst of Thine enemies!

Thy people shall be willing in the day of Thy power; in the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, Thou hast the dew of Thy youth.

The Lord hath sworn and will not repent: “Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.”

The Lord at Thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of His wrath.

He shall judge among the heathen, He shall fill the places with dead bodies, He shall wound the heads over many countries.

He shall drink of the brook on the way; therefore shall He lift up the head.

Psalm 116-117

116 I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications.

Because He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live.

The sorrows of death encompassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Then I called upon the name of the Lord: “O Lord, I beseech Thee, deliver my soul!”

Gracious is the Lord and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

The Lord preserveth the simple; I was brought low, and He helped me.

Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.

For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: “I was greatly afflicted.”

11 I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”

12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me?

13 I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord.

14 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now, in the presence of all His people.

15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.

16 O Lord, truly I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant and the son of Thine handmaid; Thou hast loosed my bonds.

17 I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.

18 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all His people,

19 in the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord!

117 O praise the Lord, all ye nations! Praise Him, all ye people!

For His merciful kindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord!

Isaiah 4:2-6

In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious; and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for those who have escaped of Israel.

And it shall come to pass that he that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy — even every one who is written among the living in Jerusalem —

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.

And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory shall be a defense.

And there shall be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so will God bring with Him those also who sleep in Jesus.

15 For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord: that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who are asleep.

16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

17 then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Luke 21:5-19

And when some spoke of the temple and how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, He said,

“As for these things which ye behold, the days will come in which there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.”

And they asked Him, saying, “Master, but when shall these things be? And what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?”

And He said, “Take heed that ye be not deceived, for many shall come in My name, saying, ‘I am Christ,’ and, ‘the time draweth near.’ Go ye not therefore after them.

But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified, for these things must first come to pass. But the end is not at once.”

10 Then said He unto them, “Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,

11 and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines and pestilences. And fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, and you will be brought before kings and rulers for My name’s sake.

13 And it shall turn to you to bear testimony.

14 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand what ye shall answer.

15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolk and friends, and some of you they shall cause to be put to death.

17 And ye shall be hated by all men for My name’s sake.

18 But there shall not a hair of your head perish.

19 In your patience possess ye your souls.