Book of Common Prayer
33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness and the watersprings into dry ground,
34 a fruitful land into barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water and dry ground into watersprings;
36 and there He maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation,
37 and sow the fields and plant vineyards, which may yield fruitful increase.
38 He blesseth them also so that they are multiplied greatly, and alloweth not their cattle to decrease.
39 Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way.
41 Yet setteth He the poor on high from affliction, and maketh their families like a flock.
42 The righteous shall see it and rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
43 Whoso is wise and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
108 O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my inmost being.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp! I myself will awake early.
3 I will praise Thee, O Lord, among the people, and I will sing praises unto Thee among the nations.
4 For Thy mercy is great above the heavens, and Thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
5 Be Thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and Thy glory above all the earth.
6 That Thy beloved may be delivered, save with Thy right hand, and answer me.
7 God hath spoken in His holiness: “I will rejoice; I will divide Shechem, and mete out the Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim also is the strength of Mine head; Judah is My lawgiver.
9 Moab is My washpot; over Edom will I cast My shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.”
10 Who will bring me into the stronghold city? Who will lead me into Edom?
11 Wilt not Thou, O God, who hast cast us off? And wilt not Thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
12 Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly, for He it is that shall tread down our enemies.
33 Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous! For praise is comely for the upright.
2 Praise the Lord with the harp; sing unto Him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
3 Sing unto Him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.
4 For the word of the Lord is right, and all His works are done in truth.
5 He loveth righteousness and judgment; the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; He layeth up the deep in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.
10 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought; He maketh the devices of the people of no effect.
11 The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance.
13 The Lord looketh down from heaven; He beholdeth all of the sons of men.
14 From the place of His habitation He looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth;
15 He fashioneth the hearts of all; He considereth all their works.
16 No king is saved by the multitude of an army; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
17 A horse is a vain thing for safety; neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Him, upon them that hope in His mercy,
19 to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waiteth for the Lord; He is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name.
22 Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in Thee.
9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord and because of the words of His holiness.
10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of cursing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
11 “For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in My house have I found their wickedness,” saith the Lord.
12 “Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation,” saith the Lord.
13 “And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied in Baal and caused My people Israel to err.
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness. They are all of them unto Me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.”
15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.”
9 I speak the truth in Christ — I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost—
2 that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
4 who are Israelites and to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 It is not as though the Word of God hath taken no effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel;
7 neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children; but, “In Isaac shall thy seed be called.”
8 That is, they who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; rather, the children of the promise are counted as the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise: “At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.”
10 And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac
11 (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not by works, but by Him that calleth),
12 it was said unto her, “The elder shall serve the younger.”
13 As it is written: “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid!
15 For He saith to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God who showeth mercy.
17 For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh, “Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show My power in thee, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth.”
18 Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will, He hardeneth.
60 Many of His disciples therefore, when they had heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can hear it?”
61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples murmured at it, He said unto them, “Doth this offend you?
62 What if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where He was before?
63 It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
64 But there are some of you that believe not.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who believed not and who should betray Him.
65 And He said, “Therefore said I unto you that no man can come unto Me, unless it were given unto him by My Father.”
66 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked no more with Him.
67 Then Jesus said unto the twelve, “Will ye also go away?”
68 Then Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life,
69 and we believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.”
70 Jesus answered them, “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
71 He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for he it was who should betray Him, being one of the twelve.
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