Book of Common Prayer
KOPH
145 I have cried with my whole heart, “Hear me, O LORD, and I will keep Your Statutes!”
146 I called upon You, “Save me, and I will keep Your Testimonies!”
147 I arose before the morning light and cried, for I waited on Your Word.
148 My eyes are open before the night watches, to meditate on Your Word.
149 Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness, O LORD. Quicken me according to Your judgment.
150 They draw near who follow after malice; and are far from Your Law.
151 You are near, O LORD, for all Your Commandments are true.
152 I have long known by Your Testimonies that You have established them forever.
RESH
153 Behold my affliction, and deliver me, for I have not forgotten Your Law.
154 Plead my cause and deliver me. Quicken me according to Your Word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked, because they do not seek Your Statutes.
156 Great are Your tender mercies, O LORD. Quicken me according to Your Judgments.
157 My persecutors and my oppressors are many. Yet I do not swerve from Your Testimonies.
158 I saw the transgressors and was grieved, because they did not keep Your Word.
159 Consider, O LORD, how I love Your Precepts. Quicken me according to Your lovingkindness.
160 The beginning of Your Word is Truth. And all the Judgments of Your righteousness endure forever.
SCHIN
161 Princes have persecuted me without cause, but my heart stood in awe of Your Words.
162 I rejoice at Your Word, as one who finds a great spoil.
163 I hate falsehood and abhor it, but Your Law do I love.
164 Seven times a day do I praise You because of Your righteous Judgments.
165 Those who love Your Law shall have great peace. And nothing shall cause them to stumble.
166 LORD, I have trusted in Your salvation; and have done Your Commandments.
167 My soul has kept Your Testimonies, for I love them exceedingly.
168 I have kept Your Precepts and Your Testimonies, for all my ways are before You.
TAU
169 Let my complaint come before You, O LORD. And give me understanding according to Your Word.
170 Let my supplication come before You and deliver me according to Your Promise.
171 My lips shall speak praise, when You have taught me Your Statutes.
172 My tongue shall testify of Your Word. For all Your Commandments are righteous.
173 Let Your hand help me, for I have chosen Your Precepts.
174 I have longed for Your salvation, O LORD; and Your Law is my delight.
175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise You; and Your Judgments shall help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek Your servant, for I do not forget Your Commandments. A song of degrees
128 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD and walks in His ways.
2 When you eat the labors of your hands, you shall be blessed; and it shall be well with you.
3 Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.
4 Lo, surely thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.
5 The LORD out of Zion shall bless you; and you shall see the wealth of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
6 Indeed, you shall see your children’s children. Peace upon Israel. A song of degrees
129 “They have oftentimes afflicted me from my youth.” (may Israel now say)
2 “They have oftentimes afflicted me from my youth. But they could not prevail against me.
3 “The plowers plowed upon my back and made long furrows.
4 “The righteous LORD has cut the cords of the wicked.
5 “Those who hate Zion shall be all ashamed and turned backward.
6 “They shall be as the grass on the housetops which withers before it comes forth.
7 “Of which the mower does not fill his hand, nor the gleaner his lap.
8 “Nor do those who pass by say, ‘The blessing of the LORD be upon you!’ or, ‘We bless you in the Name of the LORD!’” A song of degrees
130 Out of the deep places have I called to You, O LORD.
2 LORD, hear my voice. Let Your ears attend to the voice of my prayers.
3 If You, O LORD, straightly mark iniquities, O LORD, who shall stand?
4 But mercy is with You, so that You may be feared.
5 I have waited on the LORD. My soul has waited; and I have trusted in His word.
6 My soul waits on the LORD more than the morning watch watches for the morning.
7 Let Israel wait on the LORD, for with the LORD is mercy and with Him is great redemption.
8 And He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities. A song of degrees, or Psalm, of Solomon
2 Woe to those who imagine iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because their hand has power.
2 And they covet fields and houses and take them by violence and take them away. So, they oppress a man and his house, man and his heritage.
3 Therefore, thus says the LORD: “Behold, I have planned misery against this family, from which you cannot remove your necks. And you shall not go proudly; for this time shall be miserable.
4 “At that time, they shall take up a parable against you and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, ‘We are utterly destroyed! He has exchanged the portion of my people. How can He take it away! He has divided our fields!’
5 “Therefore, you shall have no one who shall cast a measuring line by lot in the Congregation of the LORD.
6 “Those who prophesy, do not prophesy. They shall not prophesy to them. Nor shall they take shame.
7 “O you who are named of the House of Jacob! Is the Spirit of the LORD shortened? Are these His works? Are not My works good to him who walks uprightly?
8 “But those who were My people yesterday have risen up on the other side, as against an enemy. They strip the beautiful garment from those who pass by peacefully, as though they returned from the war.
9 “You have cast out the women of My people from their pleasant houses. You have continually taken away My Glory from their children.
10 “Arise and depart! For this is not your rest. Because it is polluted, it shall be destroyed with a severe destruction.
11 “If a man walks in the spirit, and would lie falsely, saying, ‘I will prophesy to you of wine, and of strong drink,’ even he would be a ‘prophet’ of this people.
12 “I will surely gather you wholly, O Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold, full of the noise of men.
13 “The breaker shall come up before them. They shall break out and pass by the gate and go out by it. And their king shall go before them. And the LORD shall be upon their heads.”
23 And he called two certain Centurions to him, saying, “Prepare two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at the third hour of the night.
24 “And let them make horses ready. So that, being set upon, Paul he may be safely brought to Felix the Governor.”
25 And he wrote a letter in this manner:
26 “Claudius Lysias, to the most noble Governor Felix, sends greeting.
27 “As this man was taken by the Jews, and would have been killed by them, I came upon them with a garrison, and rescued him, perceiving that he was a Roman.
28 “And when I wanted to know the reason why they accused him, I brought him forth into their Council.
29 “I perceived that he was accused about questions of their Law, but had no crime worthy of death, or of bonds.
30 “And when it was told to me that the Jews had prepared an ambush for the man, I immediately sent him to you, and commanded his accusers to state before you the things which they had against him. Farewell.”
31 Then, as commanded, the soldiers took Paul by night and brought him to Antipatris.
32 And the next day, they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned into the Castle.
33 Now when they came to Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the Governor, and also presented Paul to him.
34 So, after the Governor had read it, he asked from what province he was. And when he learned that he was from Cilicia,
35 he said, “I will hear you once your accusers have also come.” And he commanded that he be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.
18 And the disciples of John reported all these things to him.
19 So John called two certain men of his disciples, and sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are You the coming One? Or shall we wait for another?”
20 And when the men had come to Him, they said, “John Baptist has sent us to You, saying, ‘Are You the coming One? Or shall we wait for another?’”
21 And at that time, He cured many of their sicknesses and plagues and evil spirits. And He gave sight freely to many of the blind.
22 And Jesus answered, and said to them, “Go your ways and show John what things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor receive the Gospel.
23 “And whoever does not stumble because of Me is blessed.”
24 And when the messengers of John had departed, He began to speak to the people of John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see - a reed shaken with the wind?
25 “But what did you go out to see - a man clothed in soft garments? Behold, those who are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.
26 “But what did you go forth to see - a Prophet? ‘Yes’, I say to you, ‘and greater than a Prophet.’
27 “This is he of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send My messenger before your face, who shall prepare Your way before You.’
28 “For I say to you there is no greater Prophet than John among those who are born of women. Nevertheless, whoever is the least in the Kingdom of God, is greater than him.”
29 Then all the people who heard, and the tax collectors, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
30 But the Pharisees and the expounders of the Law despised the counsel of God against themselves and were not baptized by him.
31 And the Lord said, “To what shall I liken the men of this generation? And what are they like?
32 “They are like little children sitting in the marketplace, crying one to another, saying, ‘We have played the flute for you, and you have not danced. We have mourned for you, and you have not wept.’
33 “For John Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine. And you say, ‘He has a demon.’
34 “The Son of Man has come, and eats, and drinks. And you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
35 “But wisdom is justified by all her children.”
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