Book of Common Prayer

³ Who may ascend the hill of the Lord?
    Who may stand in His holy place?
⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart;
    who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity,
    nor sworn deceitfully.

⁵ He will receive the blessing from the Lord,
    and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
⁶ This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him,
    who seek Your face. Selah

⁷ Lift up your heads, O you gates;
    and be lifted up, you everlasting doors,
    that the King of glory may enter.
⁸ Who is this King of glory?
    The Lord strong and mighty,
    the Lord mighty in battle.
⁹ Lift up your heads, O you gates;
    lift up, you everlasting doors,
    that the King of glory may enter.
¹⁰ Who is He—this King of glory?
    The Lord of Hosts,
    He is the King of glory. Selah

³ The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
    the God of glory thunders;
    the Lord is over many waters.
⁴ The voice of the Lord sounds with strength;
    the voice of the Lord—with majesty.
⁵ The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;
    the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶ He makes them skip like a calf,
    Lebanon and Sirion like a wild ox.
⁷ The voice of the Lord flashes
    like flames of fire.
⁸ The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
    the Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
⁹ The voice of the Lord makes the deer to give birth,
    and strips the forests bare;
and in His temple everyone says, “Glory!”

¹⁰ The Lord sits enthroned above the flood,
    the Lord sits as King forever.
¹¹ The Lord will give strength to His people;
    the Lord will bless His people with peace.

You have set Your glory
    above the heavens.
² Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
    You have ordained strength
because of Your enemies,
    to silence the enemy and the avenger.
³ When I consider Your heavens,
    the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
    which You have established,
⁴ what is man that You are mindful of him,
    and the son of man that You attend to him?

⁵ For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
    and crowned him with glory and honor.
⁶ You have given him dominion over the works of Your hands;
    You have put all things under his feet,
⁷ all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸ the birds of the air,
    and the fish of the sea,
    and whatever travels the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
    how excellent is Your name in all the earth!

³ Yes, the sparrow has found a home
    and the swallow a nest for herself,
    where she may lay her young,
even at Your altars,
    O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God.
⁴ Blessed are those who dwell in Your house;
    they continually praise You. Selah

⁵ Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
    in whose heart are the paths to Zion.
⁶ As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
    they makes it a spring;
    the early rain also covers it with pools.
⁷ They go from strength to strength;
    every one of them appears in Zion before God.

⁸ O Lord God of Hosts, hear my prayer,
    and give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah
⁹ Behold, O God our shield,
    and look upon the face of Your anointed.

¹⁰ For a day in Your courts is better
    than a thousand elsewhere.
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹ For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
    the Lord will give favor and glory,
for no good thing will He withhold
    from the one who walks uprightly.

¹² O Lord of Hosts,
    blessed is the man who trusts in You.

¹⁹ “Where is the path where light dwells?
    And as for darkness, where is its place,
²⁰ that you should take it to its boundary,
    and that you should know the paths to its house?
²¹ Do you know it because you were born then,
    or because the number of your days is many?

²² “Have you entered the treasuries of the snow?
    Or have you seen the treasuries of the hail,
²³ which I have reserved against the time of trouble,
    against the day of battle and war?
²⁴ By what way is the light diffused,
    or the east wind scattered upon the earth?
²⁵ Who has divided a channel for the overflowing waters,
    or a path for the thunderbolt,
²⁶ to cause it to rain on the earth where no man is,
    on the wilderness in which there are no people,
²⁷ to satisfy the desolate waste,
    and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
²⁸ Does the rain have a father?
    Or who has produced the drops of dew?
²⁹ From whose womb came the ice?
    And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth?
³⁰ The waters harden like stone,
    and the surface of the deep is frozen.

³¹ “Can you tie the cords to the Pleiades
    or loosen the belt of Orion?
³² Can you bring out the constellation in its season?
    Or can you guide the Bear with its cubs?
³³ Do you know the ordinances of heaven?
    Can you set their dominion over the earth?

³⁴ “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
    that abundance of waters may cover you?
³⁵ Can you send lightning that they may go forth
    and say to you, ‘Here we are’?
³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts,
    or who has given understanding to the heart?^[a]
37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom?
    Or who can empty out the bottles of heaven,
³⁸ when the dust turns into hard clumps
    and the clods stick together?

³⁹ “Will you hunt the prey for the lion?
    Or fill the appetite of the young lions,
⁴⁰ when they crouch in their dens
    and lie in the thicket to wait in ambush?
⁴¹ Who provides for the raven his food
    when his young ones cry unto God,
    and they wander about for lack of food?

“ ‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’^[a]
    She has become a dwelling place of demons,
a haunt for every unclean spirit,
    and a haunt for every unclean and hateful bird.
³ For all the nations have drunk
    of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality,
the kings of the earth have committed adultery with her,
    and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the
    abundance of her luxury.”

“ ‘Come out of her, my people,’^[b]
    lest you partake in her sins,
    and lest you receive her plagues.
⁵ For her sins have reached up to heaven,
    and God has remembered her iniquities.
⁶ Render to her as she has rendered to you,
    and repay her double for her deeds;
    in the cup which she has mixed, mix a double portion for her.
⁷ To the extent that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
    so give her torment and sorrow;
for in her heart she says,
    ‘I sit as a queen, and am no widow,
    and will see no sorrow.’^[c]
8 Therefore her plagues will come in one day—
    death and mourning and famine.
And she will be utterly burned with fire,
    for strong is the Lord God who judges her.