Book of Common Prayer
A Song or Psalm of Asaph.
1 ¶ Do not keep silence, O God; do not hold thy peace, and do not be still, O God.
2 For, behold, thine enemies make a tumult, and those that hate thee have lifted up their head.
3 They have taken prudent counsel in secret against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come and let us cut them off from being a people that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 Therefore they have consulted together with one consent; they are confederate against thee:
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; of Moab and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they are an arm unto the sons of Lot. Selah.
9 ¶ Do unto them as unto the Midianites, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison,
10 who perished at Endor; they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make them and their captains like Oreb and like Zeeb; all their princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna:
12 Who have said, Let us inherit for ourselves the habitations of God.
13 O my God, make them like a whirlwind, as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burns a wood and as the flame sets the mountains on fire
15 so persecute them with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy whirlwind.
16 Fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and perish
18 That they may know that thou, whose name alone is LORD, art the most high over all the earth.
To the Overcomer: Maschil, for the sons of Korah.
1 ¶ As the hart pants after the water brooks, so does my soul pant after thee, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
4 I will remember these things; I will pour out my soul in me. When I shall be included in the number; I will go with them to the house of God with voice of joy and praise, dancing in the multitude.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted against me? Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him for the wellbeing of his presence.
6 ¶ O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the mountain of Mizar.
7 Deep calls unto deep at the voice of thy waterspouts; all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
8 Yet the LORD will command his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
9 I will say unto God, My rock, why hast thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
10 It is as death in my bones when my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the saving health of my countenance and my God.
1 ¶ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against those who are not merciful; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
2 For thou art the God of my strength; why dost thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 O send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me; let them bring me unto the mountain of thy holiness and to thy tabernacles.
4 Then I will enter in to the altar of God, unto the God of my exceeding joy; yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Wait for God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the saving health of my countenance and my God.
To the Overcomer, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
1 ¶ LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land; thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
4 Turn us, O God our saving health and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou extend thine anger from generation to generation?
6 Wilt thou not give us life again that thy people may rejoice in thee?
7 Show us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy saving health.
8 ¶ I will hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace unto his people and to his saints, that they not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his saving health is near those that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from the heavens.
12 The LORD shall give that which is good, and our land shall bring forth her fruit.
13 Righteousness shall go before him and shall set his steps in the way.
A Prayer of David.
1 ¶ Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me, for I am poor and needy.
2 Preserve my soul; for I am merciful, O thou my God, save thy slave that trusts in thee.
3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for I cry unto thee daily.
4 Rejoice the soul of thy slave, for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all those that call upon thee.
6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer and attend to the voice of my supplications.
7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me.
8 ¶ Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord, neither is there any other who does thy works.
9 All the Gentiles whom thou hast made shall come and humble themselves before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
10 For thou art great and doest wondrous things; thou alone art God.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth; firm up my heart that I might fear thy name.
12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
13 For great is thy mercy upon me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest part of Sheol.
14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before them.
15 But thou, O Lord, art a merciful and gracious God, longsuffering and plenteous in mercy and truth.
16 O look into me and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy slave and keep the son of thine handmaid.
17 Show me a token for good that those who hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou, O LORD, hast helped me and comforted me.
46 ¶ And Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spoke unto Israel in visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
3 And he said, I am the God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for there I will make of thee a great people.
4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
5 ¶ And Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6 And they took their cattle and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him,
7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed he brought with him into Egypt.
28 ¶ And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
29 And Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and manifested himself unto him; and he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
30 Then Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die since I have seen thy face because thou art yet alive.
31 And Joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father’s house, I will go up and tell Pharaoh and say unto him, My brethren and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
32 and the men are pastors of sheep, for their trade has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their sheep and their cows and all that they have.
33 And it shall come to pass when Pharaoh shall call you and shall say, What is your occupation?
34 Then ye shall say, Thy slaves’ trade has been about livestock from our youth even until now, both we and also our fathers, that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every pastor of sheep is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
9 ¶ Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
2 If I am not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 ¶ My answer to those that examine me is this,
4 Do we not have authority to eat and to drink?
5 Do we not have authority to bring with us a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles and as the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
6 Do only Barnabas and I not have authority to forbear working?
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who feeds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
8 Do I say this only according to men? or does not the law say the same also?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God take care for oxen?
10 Or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope, and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.
11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap material things from you?
12 If others are partakers of this authority over you, why not us? Nevertheless we have not used this authority, but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 Do ye not know that those who work with sacred things live of the things of the sanctuary? and those who serve at the altar partake of the altar?
14 Even so the Lord has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
15 ¶ But I have used none of these things, neither have I written these things that it should be so done unto me; for it were better for me to die than that anyone should make this my glory void.
30 ¶ And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus and told him everything they had done and what they had taught.
31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a while; for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
33 And many saw them departing and knew him and ran there afoot out of the cities and arrived before them and came together unto him.
34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw a great multitude and had mercy on them because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.
35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed;
36 send them away that they may go into the country round about and into the villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.
37 He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said unto him, Shall we go and buy bread for two hundred denarius and give them to eat?
38 He said unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they said, Five, and two fishes.
39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.
41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before them, and the two fishes he divided among them all.
42 And they all ate and were filled.
43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments and of the fishes.
44 And those that ate were five thousand men.
45 ¶ And straightway he told his disciples to get quickly into the ship and to go to the other side before him unto Bethsaida while he dispatched the people.
46 And when he had dispatched them, he departed into the mountain to pray.
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