Book of Common Prayer

To the chief Musician. Upon Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.

5 Give ear to my words, O Jehovah; consider my meditation.

² Hearken unto the voice of my crying, my king and my God; for to thee will I pray.

³ Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; in the morning will I address myself to thee, and will look up.

⁴ For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.

⁵ Insolent fools shall not stand before thine eyes; thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

⁶ Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth a man of blood and deceit.

⁷ But as for me, in the greatness of thy loving-kindness will I enter thy house; I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness in thy fear.

⁸ Lead me, Jehovah, in thy righteousness, because of my foes; make thy way plain before me.

⁹ For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

¹⁰ Bring guilt upon them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels: drive them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against thee.

¹¹ And all that trust in thee shall rejoice: for ever shall they shout joyously, and thou wilt protect them; and they that love thy name shall exult in thee.

¹² For thou, Jehovah, wilt bless the righteous [man]; with favour wilt thou surround him as [with] a shield.

To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments, upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

6 Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, and chasten me not in thy hot displeasure.

² Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble.

³ And my soul trembleth exceedingly: and thou, Jehovah, till how long?

⁴ Return, Jehovah, free my soul; save me for thy loving-kindness' sake.

⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who shall give thanks unto thee?

⁶ I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.

⁷ Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors.

⁸ Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.

⁹ Jehovah hath heard my supplication; Jehovah receiveth my prayer.

¹⁰ All mine enemies shall be ashamed and tremble exceedingly; they will turn, they will be ashamed suddenly.

10 Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? [Why] hidest thou thyself in times of distress?

² The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

³ For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah.

⁴ The wicked [saith], in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!

⁵ His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; [as for] all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

⁶ He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall be in no adversity.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

⁸ He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.

⁹ He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net.

¹⁰ He croucheth, he boweth down, that the wretched may fall by his strong ones.

¹¹ He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see [it].

¹² Arise, Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: forget not the afflicted.

¹³ Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it].

¹⁴ Thou hast seen [it], for thou thyself beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite by thy hand. The wretched committeth himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none.

¹⁶ Jehovah is King for ever and ever: the nations have perished out of his land.

¹⁷ Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek, thou hast established their heart: thou causest thine ear to hear,

¹⁸ To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more.

To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.

11 In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?

² For behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may in darkness shoot at the upright in heart.

³ If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?

⁴ Jehovah [is] in the temple of his holiness; Jehovah,—his throne is in the heavens: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

⁵ Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.

⁶ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷ For righteous is Jehovah; he loveth righteousness, his countenance doth behold the upright.

²⁷ And after that the king had burned the roll, and the words that Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,

²⁸ Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

²⁹ And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from it man and beast?

³⁰ Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

³¹ And I will visit their iniquity upon him, and upon his seed, and upon his servants; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; and they have not hearkened.

³² And Jeremiah took another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Nerijah; and he wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them many like words.

37 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon having made him king in the land of Judah.

² And neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, hearkened unto the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah.

14 Follow after love, and be emulous of spiritual [manifestations], but rather that ye may prophesy.

² For he that speaks with a tongue does not speak to men but to God: for no one hears; but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

³ But he that prophesies speaks to men [in] edification, and encouragement, and consolation.

⁴ He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies [the] assembly.

⁵ Now I desire that ye should all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy. But greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

⁶ And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?

⁷ Even lifeless things giving a sound, whether pipe or harp, if they give not distinction to the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

⁸ For also, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for war?

⁹ Thus also *ye* with the tongue, unless ye give a distinct speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking to the air.

¹⁰ There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of undistinguishable sound.

¹¹ If therefore I do not know the power of the sound, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks a barbarian for me.

¹² Thus *ye* also, since ye are desirous of spirits, seek that ye may abound for the edification of the assembly.

¹⁶ Behold, *I* send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves.

¹⁷ But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to sanhedrims, and scourge you in their synagogues;

¹⁸ and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, be not careful how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given to you in that hour what ye shall speak.

²⁰ For *ye* are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you.

²¹ But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;

²² and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to [the] end, *he* shall be saved.

²³ But when they persecute you in this city, flee to the other; for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed the cities of Israel until the Son of man be come.