Book of Common Prayer
38 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chastise me in Your wrath.
2 For Your arrows have pierced me deeply; and Your hand lies upon me.
3 Because of Your anger, there is nothing sound in my flesh; nor is there rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; as a weighty burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds are putrefied, and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
6 I am bowed, and very troubled. I go mourning all day long.
7 For my core is full of burning; and there is nothing sound in my flesh.
8 I am weakened and very broken: I roar for the very grief of my heart.
9 LORD, I pour my whole desire before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.
10 My heart pants. My strength fails me, and the light of my eyes. Even they are not my own.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aside from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12 Also, those who seek after my life lay snares; and those who go about to do me evil talk wicked things and imagine deceit continually.
13 But I, as a deaf man, did not hear. I am as a dumb man who does not open his mouth.
14 Thus I am as a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
15 For on You, O LORD, I wait. You will hear, my LORD. My God.
16 For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they extol themselves against me.”
17 Surely, I am ready to halt; and my sorrow is ever before me.
18 When I declare my pain, and am sorry for my sin,
19 then my enemies are alive and are mighty; and those who hate me wrongfully are many.
20 Also, those who reward evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow goodness.
21 Do not forsake me, O LORD. Do not be far from me, my God.
22 Hasten to help me, O my LORD. My Salvation. To the excellent musician, Jeduthun: A Psalm of David.
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25 My soul clings to the dust, quicken me according to Your Word.
26 I have declared my ways, and You heard me. Teach me Your Statutes.
27 Make me to understand the way of Your Precepts, and I will meditate on Your wondrous works.
28 My soul melts for heaviness, raise me up according to Your Word.
29 Take from me the way of lying and grant me graciously Your Law.
30 I have chosen the way of truth and Your Judgments have I laid before me.
31 I have clung to Your Testimonies, O LORD, do not confound me.
32 I will run the way of Your Commandments, when You shall enlarge my heart.
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33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your Statutes, and I will keep it to the end.
34 Give me understanding and I will keep Your Law, yea, I will keep it with my whole heart.
35 Direct me in the path of Your Commandments, for therein is my delight.
36 Incline my heart to Your Testimonies, and not to covetousness.
37 Turn away my eyes from vanity and quicken me in Your way.
38 Establish Your Promise in Your servant, because he fears You.
39 Take away my rebuke, which I fear, for Your Judgments are good.
40 Behold, I desire Your Commandments, quicken me in Your righteousness.
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41 And let Your lovingkindness come to me, O LORD, and Your salvation, according to Your Promise.
42 So shall I answer to my blasphemers, for I trust in Your Word.
43 And take not the Word of Truth utterly out of my mouth, for I await Your Judgments.
44 So shall I always keep Your Law forever and ever.
45 And I will walk in freedom, because I seek Your Precepts.
46 I will speak also of Your Testimonies before kings and will not be ashamed.
47 My delight will be in Your Commandments, which I have loved.
48 My hands, also, will I lift to Your Commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate on Your Statutes.
5 King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his princes and drank wine before the thousand.
2 And Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring him the golden and silver vessels, which his father, Nebuchadnezzar, had brought from the Temple in Jerusalem; that the king and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink from them.
3 Then were brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the Temple of the Lord’s House at Jerusalem. And the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
5 At the same hour, appeared fingers of a man’s hand, which wrote over near the candlestick, upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. And the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.
6 Then the king’s countenance was changed. And his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened, and his knees struck against each other.
7 Therefore, the king loudly cried that they should bring the astrologers, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babel, “Whoever can read this writing, and declare me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall have a chain of gold around his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom!”
8 Then came all the king’s wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor show the king the interpretation.
9 Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed, and his princes were astonished.
10 Now the queen, by reason of the talk of the king and his princes, came into the banquet house. And the queen spoke, and said, “O king, live forever. Let not your thoughts trouble you, nor your countenance change.
11 “There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him whom the king Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the king, I say, your father, made chief of the enchanters, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
12 “Because a more excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding (for he expounded dreams, and declared hard sentences, and dissolved doubts) were found in him, even in Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now, let Daniel be called. And he will declare the interpretation.”
5 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And everyone who loves Him Who begat, also loves him who is begotten of Him.
2 In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His Commandments.
3 For this is the love of God: that we keep His Commandments. And His Commandments are not burdensome.
4 For all that is born of God overcomes this world. And this is that victory that has overcome this world: our faith.
5 Who is it that overcomes this world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is that Jesus Christ Who came by water and blood - not by water only, but by water and blood - and it is that Spirit that bears witness. For that Spirit is Truth.
7 For there are Three Who bear record in Heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these Three are One.
8 And there are Three Who bear record on the Earth: the Spirit and the Water and the Blood. And these Three agree in One.
9 If we receive the witness of man, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which He testified about His Son:
10 The one who believes in that Son of God, has the witness in himself. The one who does not believe God, has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the record that God witnessed of His Son.
11 And this is that record: that God has given us eternal life. And this life is in His Son.
12 The one who has that Son, has that life. And the one who does not have that Son of God, does not have that life.
38 And He rose up, and came out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever, and they required Him for her.
39 Then He stood over her and rebuked the fever. And it left her. And immediately she arose and ministered to them.
40 Now at sunset, all those who had sick of diverse diseases, brought them to Him. And He laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.
41 And demons also came out of many, crying, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” But He rebuked them and did not allow them to say that they knew Him to be the Christ.
42 And when it was day, He departed and went forth into a desert place. And the people sought Him, and came to Him, and kept Him from leaving.
43 But He said to them, “Surely I must also preach the Kingdom of God to other cities. For that is why I was sent.”
44 And He preached in the synagogues of Galilee.
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