Book of Common Prayer
ZAIN
49 Remember the Promise made to Your servant, wherein You have caused me to trust.
50 It is my comfort in my trouble. Your Promise has quickened me.
51 The proud deride me exceedingly, yet have I not turned away from Your Law.
52 I remembered Your Judgments of old, O LORD, and have been comforted.
53 Burning indignation has come upon me because of the wicked, who forsake Your Law.
54 Your Statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have remembered Your Name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept Your Law.
56 This is because I kept Your Precepts.
CHETH
57 O LORD, Who are my portion, I have determined to keep Your Words.
58 I made my supplication in Your presence with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to Your Promise.
59 I have considered my ways and turned my feet to Your Testimonies.
60 I moved quickly and did not delay in keeping Your Commandments.
61 Bands of the wicked have robbed me, but I have not forgotten Your Law.
62 At midnight will I rise and give thanks to You because of Your righteous Judgments.
63 I am companion of all those who fear You and keep Your Precepts.
64 O LORD, the Earth is full of Your mercy, teach me Your Statutes.
TETH
65 O LORD, You have dealt graciously with Your servant, according to Your Word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I have believed Your Commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your Word.
68 You are good and gracious; teach me Your Statutes.
69 The proud have imagined a lie against me, but I will keep Your Precepts with my whole heart.
70 Their heart is fat as grease; but my delight is in Your Law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your Statutes.
72 The Law of Your Mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
49 Hear this, all you people! Give ear, all you who dwell in the world,
2 low as well as high, both rich and poor!
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart is of knowledge.
4 I will incline my ear to a parable and utter my high saying upon the harp.
5 Why should I fear in the evil days, when the iniquity at my heels shall surround me?
6 They trust in their goods and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.
7 Yet a man can by no means redeem his brother. He cannot give his ransom to God,
8 (so precious is the redemption of their souls, and ceases forever)
9 so that he may yet live forever and not see the grave.
10 For he sees that wise men die; and also that the ignorant and foolish perish and leave their riches for others.
11 They think their houses and their habitations shall continue forever, from generation to generation. And they call their lands by their names.
12 But man shall not continue in honor. He is like the beasts that die.
13 This is the way of those who utter foolishness. Their posterity delights in their talk. Selah.
14 Like sheep they lie in the grave. Death devours them. And the righteous shall have domination over them in the morning. For their beauty shall be consumed, from their house to grave.
15 But God shall deliver my soul from the power of the grave; for He will receive me. Selah.
16 Do not be afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his House is increased.
17 For he shall take nothing away when he dies, nor shall his pomp descend after him.
18 For while he lived, he rejoiced over himself (and men will praise you when you make much of yourself).
19 He shall enter into the generation of his fathers. They shall not live forever.
20 An honored man who does not understand; he is like beasts that perish. A Psalm of Asaph.
53 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They have corrupted and done abominable wickedness. There is no one that does good.
2 God looked down from Heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any who would understand and seek God.
3 Everyone has gone back. They are altogether corrupt. There is no one who does good; no, not one.
4 Do not the workers of iniquity know that they eat up my people as they eat bread? They do not call upon God.
5 There they were in fear where no fear was. For God has scattered the bones of him who besieged you. You have put them to confusion because God has cast them off.
6 Oh, give salvation to Israel out of Zion! When God turns the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice; and Israel shall be glad. To him who excels on Neginoth: A Psalm of David, to give instruction, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, “Is not David hidden among us?”
30 Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel on Mount Ebal—
31 as Moses, the servant of the LORD had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses—an Altar of whole stone, over which no man had lifted an iron. And they offered Burnt Offerings unto the LORD on it and sacrificed Peace Offerings.
32 Also, he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33 And all Israel (and their elders and officers and their judges) stood on this side of the Ark and on that side, before the Priests of the Levites (who bore the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD), the stranger as well as he who is born in the country, half of them opposite Mount Gerizim and half of them opposite Mount Ebal, as Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded before, so that they should bless the children of Israel.
34 Then, afterward, he read all the Words of the Law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.
35 There was not a Word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the Congregation of Israel, the women as well as the children, and the stranger who was conversant among them.
13 Therefore, let us not judge one another anymore. But rather, determine to do this: that no one put a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall, before his brother.
14 I know, and am persuaded through the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean in itself. But to the one who judges something to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 But if your brother is distressed because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food someone for whom Christ died.
16 Therefore, do not let your good be spoken of as evil.
17 For the kingdom of God is not food or drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
18 For whoever serves Christ in these things, is well-pleasing to God, and is approved by man.
19 Let us then follow those things which concern peace, and with which one may edify another.
20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. Indeed, all things are clean, but evil for the man who eats in offense.
21 It is not good to eat flesh or to drink wine or to do anything whereby your brother stumbles or is offended or made weak.
22 Do you have faith? Have your own before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself in that thing which he allows.
23 For the one who doubts is condemned if he eats because he does not eat of faith. And whatever is not of faith is sin.
57 And they took Jesus, and led Him to Caiaphas the High Priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
58 And Peter followed him afar off to the High Priest’s hall and went in and sat with the servants to see the end.
59 Now the chief priests and the elders, and all the whole Council sought false testimony against Jesus, to put him to death.
60 But they found none. And though many false witnesses came, they still found none. But later, two false witnesses came,
61 and said, “This man said, ‘I can destroy the Temple of God, and build it in three days.’”
62 Then the chief priest arose, and said to Him, “You have no answer? What is the matter that these men testify against You?”
63 But Jesus was silent. Then the chief priest answered, and said to him, “I demand that you swear to us by the living God: Are You the Christ, the Son of God!?”
64 Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of Man, sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming in the clouds of the heaven.
65 Then the High Priest tore his clothes, saying, “He has blasphemed! What need do we have of witnesses anymore! Behold, now you have heard His blasphemy!
66 “What do you think?” They answered, and said, “He is guilty of death!”
67 Then they spat in His face and punched Him. And others struck Him with rods,
68 saying, “Prophesy to us, O Christ, Who struck you?”
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