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Book of Common Prayer

Daily Old and New Testament readings based on the Book of Common Prayer.
Duration: 861 days
Darby Translation (DARBY)
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Psalm 97

97 Jehovah reigneth: let the earth be glad, let the many isles rejoice.

Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his adversaries round about.

His lightnings lightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.

Ashamed be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols. Worship him, all ye gods.

Zion heard, and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judah were glad, because of thy judgments, O Jehovah.

For thou, Jehovah, art the Most High above all the earth; thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.

10 Ye that love Jehovah, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints, he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

11 Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.

12 Rejoice in Jehovah, ye righteous; and give thanks in remembrance of his holiness.

Psalm 99-100

99 Jehovah reigneth: let the peoples tremble. He sitteth [between the] cherubim: let the earth be moved.

Jehovah is great in Zion, and he is high above all the peoples.

They shall praise thy great and terrible name,—it is holy!—

And the strength of the king that loveth justice. *Thou* hast established equity: it is thou that executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

Exalt Jehovah our God, and worship at his footstool. He is holy!

Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name: they called unto Jehovah, and *he* answered them.

He spoke unto them in the pillar of cloud: they kept his testimonies, and the statute that he gave them.

Jehovah, our God, *thou* answeredst them: a forgiving God wast thou unto them, though thou tookest vengeance of their doings.

Exalt Jehovah our God, and worship at the hill of his holiness; for holy is Jehovah our God.

A Psalm of thanksgiving.

100 Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth!

Serve Jehovah with joy: come before his presence with exultation.

Know that Jehovah is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving [and] into his courts with praise; give thanks unto him, bless his name:

For Jehovah is good; his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever; and his faithfulness from generation to generation.

Psalm 94-95

94 O God of vengeances, Jehovah, God of vengeances, shine forth;

Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render the reward to the proud.

How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?

[How long] shall they utter [and] speak insolence—all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance;

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,

And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard [it].

Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

10 He that instructeth the nations, shall not he correct—he that teacheth man knowledge?

11 Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jah, and whom thou teachest out of thy law;

13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

14 For Jehovah will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;

15 For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

16 Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?

17 If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

18 When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

19 In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul.

20 Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?

21 They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

22 But Jehovah will be my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.

23 And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.

95 Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;

Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms.

For Jehovah is a great God, and a great king above all gods.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also:

The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry [land].

Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,

Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah, in the wilderness;

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

10 Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

11 So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.

Isaiah 63:7-14

I will record the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed upon us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed upon them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.

And he said, They are indeed my people, children that will not lie; and he became their Saviour.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of old.

10 But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them.

11 But he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him,

12 his glorious arm leading them by the right hand of Moses, dividing the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name,

13 —who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, [and] they stumbled not?

14 As cattle go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah gave them rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

1 Timothy 1:18-2:8

18 This charge, [my] child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare,

19 maintaining faith and a good conscience; which [last] some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;

20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all men;

for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;

for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,

who desires that all men should be saved and come to [the] knowledge of [the] truth.

For God is one, and [the] mediator of God and men one, [the] man Christ Jesus,

who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony [to be rendered] in its own times;

to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak [the] truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of [the] nations in faith and truth.

I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.

Mark 11:12-26

12 And on the morrow, when they were gone out of Bethany, he hungered.

13 And seeing from afar off a fig-tree which had leaves, he came, if perhaps he might find something on it. And having come up to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time of figs.

14 And answering he said to it, Let no one eat fruit of thee any more for ever. And his disciples heard [it].

15 And they come to Jerusalem, and entering into the temple, he began to cast out those who sold and who bought in the temple, and he overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of the dove-sellers,

16 and suffered not that any one should carry any package through the temple.

17 And he taught saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but *ye* have made it a den of robbers.

18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard [it], and they sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, because all the crowd were astonished at his doctrine.

19 And when it was evening he went forth without the city.

20 And passing by early in the morning they saw the fig-tree dried up from the roots.

21 And Peter, remembering [what Jesus had said], says to him, Rabbi, see, the fig-tree which thou cursedst is dried up.

22 And Jesus answering says to them, Have faith in God.

23 Verily I say to you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be thou taken away and cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but believe that what he says takes place, whatever he shall say shall come to pass for him.

24 For this reason I say to you, All things whatsoever ye pray for and ask, believe that ye receive it, and it shall come to pass for you.

25 And when ye stand praying, forgive if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your offences.

26 But if *ye* do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in the heavens forgive your offences.