Book of Common Prayer
5 Hear my words, O LORD. Understand my meditation.
2 Hear the voice of my cry, my King and my God. For to you I pray.
3 Hear my voice in the morning, O LORD. In the morning I will direct myself to You, and I will wait.
4 For You are not a God Who loves wickedness, nor shall evil dwell with You.
5 The foolish shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all those who work iniquity.
6 You shall destroy those who speak lies. The LORD will abhor the bloody man, and deceitful.
7 But I will come into Your house in the multitude of Your mercy. In Your fear I will worship toward Your Holy Temple.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness, because of my enemies. Make Your way plain before my face.
9 For no constancy is in their mouth. Inside they are very corruption. Their throat is an open sepulcher. They flatter with their tongue.
10 Destroy them, O God. Let them fall from their counsels. Cast them out for the multitude of their iniquities, because they have rebelled against You.
11 And let all those who trust in You rejoice, and triumph forever. And cover them. And let those who love Your Name rejoice in You.
12 For You, LORD, will bless the righteous. You will surround him with favor, as with a shield. To him who excels on Neginoth, upon the eight tune: A Psalm of David.
6 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chastise me in Your wrath.
2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am weak. O LORD, heal me, for my bones are vexed.
3 My soul is also very troubled. But LORD, how long will You delay?
4 Return, O LORD. Deliver my soul. Save me for Your mercy’s sake.
5 For in death there is no remembrance of You. In the grave, who shall praise You?
6 I fainted in my mourning. Every night I cause my bed to swim, and water my couch with my tears.
7 My eye is dimmed for grief, and sunk in because of all my enemies.
8 Away from me all you workers of iniquity. For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.
9 The LORD has heard my petition. The LORD will receive my prayer.
10 All my enemies shall be confounded and very vexed. They shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly. Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush, the son of Benjamin.
10 Why do you stand afar off, O LORD, hiding Yourself in time of trouble?
2 With pride, the wicked persecute the poor. Let them be taken in the crafts that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked has boasted of his own heart’s desire; and the covetous blesses himself and despises the LORD.
4 The wicked is so proud that he does not seek. He thinks always, “There is no God.”
5 His ways always prosper. Your judgments are high above his sight. He defies all his enemies.
6 He says in his heart, “I shall never be moved, nor be in danger.”
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
8 He lies in wait in the villages. He murders the innocent in the secret places. His eyes are bent against the poor.
9 He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor. He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
10 He crouches and bows. Therefore, heaps of the poor fall by his might.
11 He has said in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face and will never see.”
12 Arise, O LORD God. Lift up Your hand. Do not forget the poor.
13 Why do the wicked despise God? He says in his heart, “You will not see.”
14 Yet You have seen it. For You behold mischief and wrong, so that You may take it into Your hands. The poor commits himself to You. You are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and malicious. Search his wickedness until you shall find none.
16 The LORD is King forever and ever. The heathen are destroyed from His land.
17 LORD, You have heard the desire of the oppressed. You prepare their heart. You bend Your ear
18 to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, so that earthly man causes no more fear. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.
11 In the LORD I put my trust. How, then, can you say to my soul, “Flee to your mountain as a bird”?
2 For lo, the wicked bend their bow and make ready their arrows upon the string, so that they may secretly shoot at those who are upright in heart.
3 For if the foundations are cast down, what can the righteous do?
4 The LORD is in His Holy palace. The LORD’s throne is in the sky. His eyes behold. His eyelids try the children of men.
5 The LORD will try the righteous. But the wicked, and he who loves iniquity, His soul hates.
6 Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and stormy tempest. This is the portion of their cup.
7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness. His face beholds the just. To him who excels upon the eight tune: A Psalm of David.
35 And the LORD spoke to Moses on the plain of Moab, by Jordan, toward Jericho, saying,
2 “Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites cities in which to dwell from the inheritance of their possession. You shall also give to the Levites the suburbs surrounding the cities.
3 “So they shall have the cities to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.
9 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When you have come over Jordan, into the land of Canaan,
11 ‘you shall appoint yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that the killer who kills any person accidentally may flee there.
12 ‘And these cities shall be for you a refuge from your avenger, so that he who kills does not die until he stand before the Congregation in judgment.
13 ‘And of the cities which you shall give, six cities shall you have for refuge.
14 ‘You shall appoint three on this side of Jordan. And you shall appoint three cities in the land of Canaan which shall be cities of refuge.
15 ‘These six cities shall be a refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for he who dwells among you, so that everyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.
30 ‘Whoever kills any person shall be killed through witnesses. But one witness’s testimony against a person shall not cause him to die.
31 ‘Moreover, you shall take no ransom for the life of the murderer who is worthy to die. But he shall be put to death.
32 ‘Also, you shall take no ransom for he who has fled to the city of his refuge, so that he should return and dwell in the land before the death of the High Priest.
33 ‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you shall dwell. For blood defiles the land. And the land can only be cleansed of the blood that is shed upon it but by the blood of he who shed it.
34 ‘Therefore, do not defile the land which you shall inhabit. For I dwell in its midst. For I, the LORD, dwell among the children of Israel.’”
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He Who did not spare His own Son - but gave Him up for us all - how shall He not, with Him, also give us all things?
33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s chosen? God is the One who justifies.
34 Who shall condemn? It is Christ, Who died - indeed, or rather, Who is risen again - and Who is also at the right hand of God, interceding for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ; shall tribulation or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written: “For your sake we are killed all day long. We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 Nevertheless, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through Him Who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
13 “Therefore, woe to you, scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven before man. For you yourselves do not go in, nor do you allow those who wish entrance to come in.
14 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, even under a pretense of long prayers. Therefore, you shall receive the greater damnation.
15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites! For you traverse sea and land to make one proselyte. And when he is made, you make him twofold more a child of Hell than you yourselves!
16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the Temple, it is nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the Temple, he sins.’
17 “You fools, and blind! Which is greater, the gold or the Temple that sanctifies the gold?
18 “And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing. But whoever swears by the offering upon it, sins.’
19 “You fools, and blind! Which is greater, the offering or the altar which sanctifies the offering?
20 “Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things thereupon.
21 “And whoever swears by the Temple, swears by it and by Him Who dwells therein.
22 “And the one who swears by Heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him Who sits thereupon.
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites! For you tithe mint and anise and cumin, and leave the weightier matters of the law, judgment, and mercy and fidelity. These you ought to have done, and not to have left the other.
24 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites! For you make clean the outside of the cup and the platter. But inside they are full of bribery and excess.
26 “You blind Pharisee! First, cleanse the inside of the cup and platter, so that the outside of them may be clean also.
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