Book of Common Prayer

38 Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David.

² I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.

³ I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.

⁴ My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

⁵ I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.

⁶ Behold thou hast made my days measurable: and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

⁷ Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

⁸ And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.

⁹ Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.

¹⁰ I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.

¹¹ Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:

¹² Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

¹³ Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

¹⁴ O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

²⁴ And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of David to her house, which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Mello.

²⁵ Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts, and victims of peace offerings upon the altar which he had built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before the Lord: and the temple was finished.

²⁶ And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is by Ailath on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.

²⁷ And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

²⁸ And they came to Ophir, and they brought from thence to king Solomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.

10 And the queen of Saba, having; heard of the fame of Solomon in the name of the Lord, came to try him with hard questions.

² And entering into Jerusalem with a great train, and riches, and camels that carried spices, and an immense quantity of gold, and precious stones, she came to king Solomon, and spoke to him all that she had in her heart.

³ And Solomon informed her of all the things she proposed to him: there was not any word the king was ignorant of, and which he could not answer her.

⁴ And when the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built,

⁵ And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his servants, and the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and the holocausts, which he offered in the house of the Lord: she had no longer any spirit in her,

⁶ And she said to the king: The report is true, which I heard in my own country,

⁷ Concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom. And I did not believe them that told me, till I came myself, and saw with my own eyes, and have found that the half hath not been told me: thy wisdom and thy works, exceed the fame which I heard.

⁸ Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand before thee always, and hear thy wisdom.

⁹ Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou hast pleased, and who hath set thee upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord hath loved Israel for ever, and hath appointed thee king, to do judgment and justice.

¹⁰ And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices a very great store, and precious stones: there was brought no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.

¹¹ (The navy also of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir great plenty of thyine trees, and precious stones.

¹² And the king made of the thyine trees the rails of the house of the Lord, and of the king's house, and citterns and harps for singers: there were no such thyine trees as these brought, nor seen unto this day.)

¹³ And king Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she desired, and asked of him: besides what he offered he himself of his royal bounty. And she returned, and went to her own country with her servants.

3 Be ye not many masters, my brethren, knowing that you receive the greater judgment.

² For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body.

³ For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

⁴ Behold also ships, whereas they are great, and are driven by strong winds, yet are they turned about with a small helm, whithersoever the force of the governor willeth.

⁵ Even so the tongue is indeed a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

⁷ For every nature of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of the rest, is tamed, and hath been tamed, by the nature of man:

⁸ But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.

⁹ By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

¹¹ Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water?

¹² Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.

15 And straightway in the morning, the chief priests holding a consultation with the ancients and the scribes and the whole council, binding Jesus, led him away, and delivered him to Pilate.

² And Pilate asked him: Art thou the king of the Jews? But he answering, saith to him: Thou sayest it.

³ And the chief priests accused him in many things.

⁴ And Pilate again asked him, saying: Answerest thou nothing? behold in how many things they accuse thee.

⁵ But Jesus still answered nothing; so that Pilate wondered.

⁶ Now on the festival day he was wont to release unto them one of the prisoners, whomsoever they demanded.

⁷ And there was one called Barabbas, who was put in prison with some seditious men, who in the sedition had committed murder.

⁸ And when the multitude was come up, they began to desire that he would do, as he had ever done unto them.

⁹ And Pilate answered them, and said: Will you that I release to you the king of the Jews?

¹⁰ For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him up out of envy.

¹¹ But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas to them.