Book of Common Prayer
102 O LORD, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to You.
2 Do not hide Your face from me in the time of my trouble. Incline Your ears to me when I call. Hurry to hear me.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke; and my bones are burnt like a hearth.
4 My heart is stricken and withered, like grass, because I forgot to eat my bread.
5 Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I am like an owl of the deserts.
7 I watch and am as a sparrow, alone upon the house top.
8 My enemies revile me daily. Those who rage against me have sworn against me.
9 Surely, I have eaten ashes as bread and mingled my drink with weeping
10 because of Your indignation and Your wrath. For You have heaved me up and cast me down.
11 My days are like a shadow that fades; and I am withered like grass.
12 But You, O LORD, remain forever, and Your remembrance from generation to generation.
13 You will arise and have mercy upon Zion. For the time to have mercy thereon, for the appointed time, has come.
14 For Your servants, delight in the stones thereof and have pity on the dust thereof.
15 Then the heathen shall fear the Name of the LORD, and all the kings of the Earth Your Glory,
16 when the LORD shall build up Zion and shall appear in His Glory
17 and shall turn to the prayer of the desolate and not despise their prayer.
18 This shall be written for the generation to come; and the people who shall be created shall praise the LORD.
19 For He has looked down from the height of His Sanctuary. Out of the heaven did the LORD behold the Earth,
20 so that He might hear the mourning of the prisoner and deliver the children of death;
21 so that they may declare the Name of the LORD in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem
22 when the people shall be gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23 He weakened my strength on the way and shortened my days.
24 I said, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days. Your years endure from generation to generation.
25 “Before time, You have laid the foundation of the Earth; and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
26 “They shall perish, but You shall endure. Indeed, they shall all wear out like a garment. You shall change them like clothing, and they shall be changed.
27 But You are the same; and Your years shall not fail.
28 The children of Your servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established in Your sight. A Psalm of David
107 Praise the LORD, because He is good; for His mercy endures forever.
2 Let those who have been redeemed by the LORD show how He has delivered them from the hand of the oppressor—
3 and gathered them out of the lands—from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
4 They wandered in the desert wilderness, out of the way, and found no city to dwell in.
5 Both hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble. He delivered them from their distress
7 and led them forth by the right way, so that they might go to a city of habitation.
8 Let them confess, before the LORD, His lovingkindness and His wonderful works before the sons of men.
9 For He satisfied the thirsty soul and filled the hungry soul with goodness.
10 Those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death (being bound in misery and iron
11 because they rebelled against the words of the LORD and despised the counsel of the Most High
12 when He humbled their heart with heaviness), they fell down; and there was no helper.
13 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble. He delivered them from their distress.
14 He brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death, and broke their bands apart.
15 Let them confess, before the LORD, His lovingkindness, and his wonderful works, before the sons of men.
16 For He has broken the gates of brass and burst the bars of iron apart.
17 Fools, by reason of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
18 Their soul abhors all food, and they are brought to death’s door.
19 Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble. He delivers them from their distress.
20 He sends His Word and heals them and delivers them from their graves.
21 Let them confess, before the LORD, His lovingkindness, and His wonderful works before the sons of men.
22 And let them offer sacrifices of praise and declare His works with rejoicing.
23 Those who go down to the sea in ships, occupying by the great waters,
24 they see the works of the LORD, and His wonders, in the deep.
25 For He commands and raises the stormy wind; and it lifts up the waves thereof.
26 They mount up to the heaven, descend to the deep, so that their soul melts for trouble.
27 They are tossed to and fro and stagger like a drunken man. And all their cunning is gone.
28 Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and He brings them out of their distress.
29 He turns the storm to calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
30 When they are quieted, they are glad; and He brings them to the haven where they wish to be.
31 Let them confess, before the LORD, His lovingkindness, and His wonderful works before the sons of men.
32 And let them exalt Him in the congregation of the people and praise Him in the assembly of the elders.
10 Israel is an empty vine. It has brought forth fruit for itself. According to the multitude of its fruit, it has increased its altars. According to the goodness of its land, it has made fair images.
2 Their heart is divided. They shall now be found faulty. He shall break down their altars. He shall destroy their images.
3 For now they shall say, “We have no king because we did not fear the LORD. And what would a king do for us?”
4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Thus, judgment grows as wormwood in the furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calf of Beth Aven. For its people shall mourn over it, as well as its Chemarims, who cried over it because of its glory and because it has departed.
6 It shall also be brought to Assyria, as a present for King Jareb. Ephraim shall receive shame and Israel shall be ashamed of its own counsel.
7 Of Samaria, its king is destroyed, as the foam upon the water.
8 Also, the high places of Aven shall be destroyed, the sin of Israel. The thorn and the thistle shall grow upon their altars. And they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,” and to the hills, “Fall upon us.”
9 “O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah! There they stood. The battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not touch them.
10 “It is My desire that I should chastise them. And the people shall be gathered against them when they shall gather themselves in their two furrows.
11 “And Ephraim is as a heifer that delights in threshing. But I will pass by her fair neck. I will make Ephraim ride. Judah shall plow and Jacob shall break his clods.”
12 Sow for yourselves in righteousness. Reap after the measure of mercy. Break up your fallow ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and rains righteousness upon you.
13 You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, because you trusted in your own ways and in the multitude of your strong men.
14 Therefore, a tumult shall arise among your people. And all your munitions shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the days of battle. The mother, with the children, was dashed in pieces.
15 So shall Bethel do to you, because of your malicious wickedness. The king of Israel shall be destroyed in a morning.
37 And as Paul was being been led into the castle, he said to the chief captain, “May I speak to you?” Who said, “Can you speak Greek?
38 “Are you not the Egyptian who previously led a revolt, and led four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?”
39 Then Paul said, “Doubtless, I am a Jew, and a citizen of Tarsus, (a famous city of Cilicia). And I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”
40 And when he had let him, Paul stood on the stairs and beckoned with the hand to the people. And when there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
22 “You men, brothers and fathers, hear now my defense towards you!”
2 And when they heard him speak in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept even more silent. And he said,
3 “I am indeed a man born Jewish in Tarsus in Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and instructed according to the perfect manner of the Law of the Fathers. And I was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.
4 “And I persecuted the Way to the death, binding and delivering both men and women into prison,
5 “to which the chief priest and all the company of the elders also testify. From them I also received letters to the brothers and went to Damascus to bind those who were there and bring them to Jerusalem, so that they might be punished.
6 “And so it was as I journeyed and had come near to Damascus (about noon) that suddenly a great light from Heaven shone all around me.
7 “So I fell to the Earth and heard a voice saying to me, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?
8 “Then I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, Whom you persecute.’
9 “Moreover, those who were with me indeed saw a light and were afraid. But they did not hear the voice of Him who spoke to me.
10 “Then I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord’? And the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. And there you shall be told all things which are appointed for you to do.’
11 “So, after I could not see because of the Glory of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus.
12 “And one Ananias (a godly man as pertaining to the Law, having good report of all the Jews who dwelt there)
13 “came to me and stood and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ And that same hour I looked at him.
14 “And he said, ‘The God of our Fathers has appointed you, that you should know His will, and should see the Just One, and should hear the voice of His mouth.
15 ‘For you shall be His witness to all mankind of the things which you have seen and heard.
16 ‘Now therefore why do you wait? Arise, and be baptized. And wash away your sins by calling on the Name of the Lord.’
12 And it happened that in those days He went into a mountain to pray. And He spent the night in prayer to God.
13 And when it was day, He called His disciples. And He chose twelve of them (whom He also called Apostles):
14 Simon (whom He also named Peter) and Andrew (his brother), James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
15 Matthew and Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zealous,
16 Judas brother of James, and Judas Iscariot (who was also the traitor).
17 Then He came down with them and stood in a plain place with the crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem and from the seacoasts of Tyre and Sidon. They came to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases.
18 And those who were tormented by foul spirits were healed.
19 And the whole multitude sought to touch Him. For power went out of Him and healed them all.
20 And He lifted up His eyes upon His disciples, and said, “Blessed are you poor. For yours is the Kingdom of God.
21 “Blessed are you who hunger now. For you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now. For you shall laugh.
22 “Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they separate you, and revile you, and put out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
23 “Rejoice on that day and be glad. For behold, your reward is great in Heaven. For in like manner did their fathers to the Prophets:
24 “But woe to you rich. For you have received your comfort.
25 “Woe to you who are full. For you shall hunger. Woe to you who now laugh. For you shall wail and weep.
26 “Woe to you when all men speak well of you. For so did their fathers to the false prophets.
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