Book of Common Prayer
131 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor are my eyes lofty, nor have I proceeded in great matters and things hidden from me.
2 Surely, I have behaved like one weaned from his mother and kept silent. In myself, I am as one who is weaned.
3 Let Israel wait on the LORD from henceforth and forever. A song of degrees
132 LORD, remember David with all his affliction.
2 Who swore to the LORD, vowed to the Mighty of Jacob,
3 “I will not enter into the tabernacle of my house, nor come upon my pallet (my bed),
4 “nor allow my eyes to sleep, nor my eyelids to slumber,
5 “until I find a place for the LORD, a habitation for the Mighty of Jacob.”
6 Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah and found it in the fields of the forest.
7 We will enter into His Tabernacles and worship before His footstool.
8 Arise, O LORD, into Your rest, You and the Ark of Your strength.
9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let Your saints rejoice.
10 For Your servant David’s sake, do not refuse the face of Your Anointed.
11 The LORD has sworn to David in truth; and He will not shrink from it, saying, “From the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.
12 “If your sons keep My Covenant, and My testimonies, so that I shall teach them, their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”
13 For the LORD has chosen Zion and loved to dwell in it, saying,
14 “This is My rest, forever. Here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
15 “I will surely bless her provisions and will satisfy her poor with bread
16 “and will clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall shout for joy.
17 “There I will make the horn of David bud. I have ordained a Light for My Anointed.
18 “I will clothe His enemies with shame; but on Him His crown shall flourish.” A song of degrees, or Psalm, of Solomon
133 Behold, how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brothers to dwell together.
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, which runs down upon the beard (even to Aaron’s beard, which went down on the border of his garments)
3 as the dew of Hermon which falls upon the mountains of Zion; for there the LORD appointed the blessing and life forever. A song of degrees
134 Behold! Praise the LORD all you servants of the LORD, who stand in the House of the LORD by night!
2 Lift up your hands to the Sanctuary and praise the LORD!
3 The LORD, Who has made Heaven and Earth, bless you out of Zion. Praise the LORD
135 Praise the Name of the LORD, you servants of the LORD! Praise,
2 you who stand in the House of the LORD and in the courts of the House of our God!
3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good! Sing praises to His Name; for it is a sweet thing.
4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for Himself and Israel for His chief treasure.
5 For I know that the LORD is great and that our LORD is above all gods.
6 Whatever pleased the LORD, He did in Heaven and on Earth, in the sea and in all the depths.
7 He brings up the clouds from the ends of the Earth and makes the lightning with the rain. He draws forth the wind out of His treasures.
8 He struck the firstborn of Egypt (of both man and beast).
9 He has sent signs and wonders into the midst of You, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants.
10 He struck many nations and slew mighty Kings—
11 Sihon, King of the Amorites and Og, King of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan—
12 and gave their land for an inheritance, an inheritance to Israel, His people.
13 Your Name, O LORD, endures forever! O LORD, Your remembrance is from generation to generation.
14 For the LORD will judge His people and be pacified toward His servants.
15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
16 They have a mouth and do not speak. They have eyes and do not see.
17 They have ears and do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouth.
18 Those who make them are like them, all who trust in them.
19 Praise the LORD, you House of Israel! Praise the LORD, you House of Aaron!
20 Praise the LORD, you House of Levi! You who fear the LORD, praise the LORD!
21 Praise the LORD out of Zion, Who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the LORD!
3 “And I said, ‘Hear now, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of the House of Israel. Should not you know judgment?’
2 “They hate good and love evil. They strip their skin from them, and their flesh from their bones.
3 “And they also eat the flesh of My people, and strip off their skin from them. And they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as if for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.”
4 Then they shall cry to the LORD, but He will not hear them. He will hide His Face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their works.
5 Thus says the LORD: “Concerning the prophets who deceive My people, and bite them with their teeth, and cry, ‘Peace!’ But if a man puts nothing into their mouths, they prepare war against him.
6 “Therefore, night shall be to you for a vision, and darkness to you for a divination. And the Sun shall go down over the prophets. And the day shall be dark over them.
7 “Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the soothsayers confounded. Yea, they shall all cover their lips, for they have no answer from God.”
8 Yet indeed I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of strength, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
24 Now after five days, Ananias the High Priest came down with the elders and Tertullus (a certain orator), who appeared against Paul before the Governor.
2 And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that we have obtained great peace through you, and that many worthy things are being done in this nation through your foresight,
3 “we acknowledge it wholly, and in all places, with all thanks, most noble Felix.
4 “But so as not to detain you, I beg you to hear a few words from us out of your fairness.
5 “We have found this man to be a pest, an inciter of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
6 “who has tried to pollute the Temple. Therefore, we took him, and would have judged him according to our Law.
7 “But the chief captain, Lysias, came upon us and (with great violence) took him out of our hands,
8 “commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him yourself you may learn all these things of which we accuse him.”
9 And the Jews also agreed, saying that it was so.
10 Then Paul, after the Governor had beckoned to him that he should speak, answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I do the more gladly answer for myself,
11 “seeing that you may know that it has only been twelve days since I came up to worship in Jerusalem.
12 “And they neither found me in the Temple (disputing with any man or inciting uproar among the people), nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.
13 “Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.
14 “But this I confess to you: that I worship the God of my Fathers as does the Way (which they call heresy), believing all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets.
15 “And I have hope in God that the resurrection of the dead, (which they themselves also look for) shall be of both just and unjust.
16 “And in this I myself always endeavor to have a clear conscience toward God and toward man.
17 “Now after many years, I came and brought alms and offerings to my nation.
18 “At which time, some Asian Jews found me (with neither multitude nor tumult) purified in the Temple.
19 “They ought to have been present to accuse me before you, if they have anything against me.
20 “Or else let these themselves say if they have found any unjust thing in me while I stood in the Council,
21 “except for this one statement which I cried out while standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead am I accused by you this day.’”
22 Now when Felix heard these things, he deferred them, and said, “When I shall better understand the things which concern this Way (by the coming of Lysias the chief Captain), I will decide your matter.”
23 Then he commanded a Centurion to keep Paul, and that he should have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his friends to minister to him, or to come to him.
36 And one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went into the Pharisee’s house and sat down at table.
37 And behold, a woman in the city (who was a sinner), when she knew that Jesus sat at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought a box of ointment.
38 And she stood behind him, weeping at his feet. And she began to wash his feet with her tears. And she wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
39 Now when the Pharisee who had asked Him, saw it, he spoke to himself, saying, “If this man were a Prophet, He would surely have known who and what kind of woman this is who touches Him. For she is a sinner.”
40 And Jesus answered, and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he said, “Master, say on.”
41 “There was a certain lender who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
42 “When they had nothing with which to pay, he forgave them both. Therefore, tell Me, which of them will love him most?”
43 Simon answered, and said, “I suppose the one to whom he forgave most.” And He said to him, “You have judged rightly.”
44 Then he turned to the woman, and said to Simon, “See this woman? I entered into your house and you gave Me no water for my feet. But she has washed my feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
45 “You gave Me no kiss. But since the time I came in, she has not ceased to kiss My feet.
46 “You did not anoint My head with oil. But she has anointed My feet with ointment.
47 “Therefore I say to you her many sins are forgiven. For she has loved much. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”
48 And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
49 And those who sat at table with Him began to say among themselves, “Who is this Who even forgives sins?”
50 And He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
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