Book of Common Prayer
31 In You, O LORD, have I put my trust. Let me never be confounded. Deliver me in Your righteousness.
2 Bow down Your ear to me. Make haste to deliver me. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
3 For You are my rock and my fortress. Therefore, direct me and guide me for Your Name’s sake.
4 Draw me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me. For You are my strength.
5 Into Your hand I commend My spirit. For You have redeemed me, O LORD God of Truth.
6 I have hated those who give themselves to deceitful vanities; for I trust in the LORD.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy. For You have seen my trouble. You have known my soul in adversities.
8 And You have not shut me up in the hand of the enemy but have set my feet in an open space.
9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble. My eye, my soul and my belly are consumed with grief.
10 For my life is wasted with heaviness, and my years with mourning. My strength fails because of my pain; and my bones are consumed.
11 I was a reproach among all my enemies — but especially among my neighbors — and a fear to my acquaintances. Who, seeing me in the street, fled from me.
12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the railing of great men. Fear was on every side, while they conspired together against me and consulted to take my life.
14 But I trusted in You, O LORD. I said, “You are my God.”
15 My times are in Your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
16 Make Your face to shine upon Your servant. Save me through Your mercy.
17 Let me not be confounded, O LORD, for I have called upon You. Let the wicked be put to confusion, to silence, in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips which cruelly, proudly, and spitefully speak against the righteous be made dumb.
19 How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You; and done to those who trust in You before the sons of men!
20 You hide them from the pride of men in the secret place of Your presence. You keep them secretly in Your Tabernacle from the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed be the LORD. For He has shown His marvelous kindness toward me in a strong city.
22 Though I said in my haste, “I am cast out of Your sight!” Still, You heard the voice of my prayer when I cried to You.
23 Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful and abundantly repays the proud.
24 All you who trust in the LORD, be strong; and He shall establish your heart. A Psalm of David, to give instruction.
35 Plead my cause, O LORD, with those who strive with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
2 Lay hand upon the shield and buckler; and stand up for my help.
3 Also, bring out the spear, and stop the way against those who persecute me. Say to my soul, “I am Your salvation.”
4 Let those who seek after my soul be confounded and put to shame. Let those who imagine my hurt be turned back and brought to confusion.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind; and let the Angel of the LORD scatter them.
6 Let their way be dark and slippery; and let the Angel of the LORD persecute them.
7 For without cause, they have hidden the pit and their net for me. Without cause, they have dug a pit for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly; and let his net that he has laid secretly, take him. Let him fall into the same destruction.
9 Then my soul shall be joyful in the LORD. It shall rejoice in His salvation.
10 All my bones shall say, “LORD, who is like You, Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; indeed, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him!?”
11 Cruel witnesses arose. They asked things of me that I did not know.
12 They rewarded me evil for good, to spoil my soul.
13 Yet I, when they were sick, I was clothed with sackcloth. I humbled my soul with fasting. And my prayer was turned upon my bosom.
14 I behaved as to my friend, or as to my brother. I humbled myself, mourning as one who bewails his mother.
15 But they rejoiced in my adversity and gathered themselves together. The strikers assembled themselves against me, and I did not know. They tore me and did not cease,
16 with the false scoffers at banquets gnashing their teeth against me.
17 LORD, how long will You behold? Deliver my soul from their tumult, my desolate soul from the lions.
18 I will give You thanks in a great congregation. I will praise You among many people.
19 Do not let those who are my enemies unjustly rejoice over me, nor let those wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
20 For they do not speak as friends. But they imagine deceitful words against the quiet of the land.
21 And they gaped on me with their mouths, saying, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen!”
22 You have seen it, O LORD. Do not keep silent. Do not be far from me, O LORD.
23 Arise and wake to my judgment, even to my cause, my God and my LORD.
24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to Your righteousness; and do not let them rejoice over me.
25 Do not let them say in their hearts, “O, our soul, rejoice.” Nor let them say, “We have devoured him.”
26 Let those who rejoice at my hurt be confounded and put to shame together. Let those who lift themselves up against me be clothed with confusion and shame.
27 Let those who love my righteousness be joyful and glad. Indeed, let those who love the prosperity of His servant say always, “Let the LORD be magnified!”
28 And my tongue shall utter Your righteousness and Your praise every day. To him who excels. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD.
19 So the people came up out of the Jordan, on the tenth of the first month, and pitched in Gilgal, on the East side of Jericho.
20 Also, the twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan Joshua pitched in Gilgal.
21 And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children shall ask their fathers in times to come, and say, ‘What do these stones mean?’,
22 “then you shall make it known to your children, and say, ‘Israel came over the Jordan on dry land.
23 ‘For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you, until you had gone over, as the LORD your God did the Red Sea (which He dried up before us until we had gone over),
24 ‘so that all the people of the world may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, so that you might fear the LORD your God continually.’”
5 Now when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel until they had gone over, their hearts fainted. And there was no courage in them anymore, because of the children of Israel.
10 So the children of Israel stayed in Gilgal and kept the Feast of the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, on the plain of Jericho.
11 And on the day after the Passover — on the same day — they ate from the old grain of the land, unleavened bread and parched corn.
12 And the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten from the old grain of the land. Nor did the children of Israel have manna anymore, but ate from the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
13 And when Joshua was near Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, there stood a man opposite him, having a sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went to him, and said to him, “Are you on our side, or on our adversaries’?”
14 And he said, “No, but as a captain of the army of the LORD I have now come.” Then Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and said to him, “What does the LORD say to his servant?”
15 And the captain of the LORD’s army said to Joshua, “Loosen your shoe from your foot. For the place upon which you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.
9 love without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil, and cling to that which is good.
10 Be kindly affectionate toward one another with brotherly love. Lead one another toward honor,
11 not slothful to do service, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,
12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing in prayer,
13 distributing to the needs of the saints, giving yourselves to the loving of strangers.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, I say, and do not curse.
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
16 Be like-minded toward one another. Do not be high-minded; but align yourselves with the humble. Do not be wise in your own eyes.
17 Repay no one evil for evil. Provide honorably in the sight of all mankind.
18 If it is possible, as much as you can, be at peace with all mankind.
19 Dearly beloved, do not avenge yourselves; but give Wrath its opportunity. For it is written, “Vengeance is Mine. I will repay”, says the Lord.
20 Therefore, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing, you shall heap coals of fire on his head.”
21 Be not overcome by evil. But, overcome evil with good.
17 Now on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, “Where would You like us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
18 And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Master says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples”.’”
19 And the disciples did as Jesus had told them and made ready the Passover.
20 And when evening came, He sat down with the twelve.
21 And as they ate, He said, “Truly I say to you that one of you shall betray Me.”
22 And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and each one of them began to say to Him, “Is it me, Master!?”
23 And He answered and said, “The one who has dipped his hand in the dish with Me, he shall betray Me.
24 “Surely the Son of Man goes his way, as it is written of Him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It had been good for that man if he had never been born.”
25 Then Judas (who betrayed Him) answered, and said, “Is it me, Master?” He said to him, “You have said it.”
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