Book of Common Prayer
18 I will love You dearly, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress; and He Who delivers me, my God and my strength. In Him will I trust. My shield. The horn, also, of my salvation. My refuge.
3 I will call upon the LORD, Who is worthy to be praised. So shall I be safe from my enemies.
4 The sorrows of death surrounded me. And the floods of wickedness made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of the grave have surrounded me. The snares of death overtook me.
6 But in my trouble, I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of His Temple. And my cry came before Him, into His ears.
7 Then the Earth trembled and quaked. The foundations of the mountains also moved and shook because He was angry.
8 Smoke went out at His nostrils; and a consuming fire out of His mouth, at which coals were kindled.
9 He also bowed the heavens and came down, and darkness was under His feet.
10 And He rode upon a cherub and flew. And He came flying upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness His secret place, his pavilion all around Him; darkness of waters and clouds of the air.
12 At the brightness of His presence, His clouds passed; hailstones and coals of fire.
13 The LORD also thundered in the heaven, and the Highest gave His voice; hailstones and coals of fire.
14 Then He sent out His arrows and scattered them. And He increased lightnings and destroyed them.
15 And the channels of waters were seen. And the foundations of the world were discovered at Your rebuking, O LORD; at the blasting of the breath of Your nostrils.
16 He has sent down from above and taken me. He has drawn me out of many waters.
17 He has delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hate me. For they were too strong for me.
18 They confronted me on the day of my calamity. But the LORD was my stay.
19 He also brought me forth into a large place. He delivered me because He favored me.
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the pureness of my hand, He recompensed me,
21 because I kept the ways of the LORD and did not do wickedly against my God.
22 For all His laws were before me. And I did not cast away His Commandments from me.
23 I was also upright with him and have kept myself from my wickedness.
24 Therefore, the LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the pureness of my hands in His sight.
25 With the godly, You will show Yourself godly. With the upright man, You will show Yourself upright.
26 With the pure, You will show Yourself pure. And with the froward, You will show Yourself froward.
27 Thus, You will save the poor people, and will cast down proud looks.
28 Surely, You will light my candle. The LORD, my God, will lighten my darkness.
29 For You I have broken through an army. And by my God I have leapt over a wall.
30 The way of God is incorrupt. The Word of the LORD is tried in the fire. He is a shield to those who trust in Him.
31 For who is God besides the LORD? And who is mighty except our God?
32 God girds me with strength and makes my way upright.
33 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet and sets me upon my high places.
34 He teaches my hands to fight, so that a bow of brass is broken with my arms.
35 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation. And Your right hand has upheld me. And Your lovingkindness has caused me to increase.
36 You have enlarged my steps under me, and my heels have not slid.
37 I have pursued my enemies, and taken them, and have not turned again until I had vanquished them.
38 I have wounded them, so that they were not able to rise. They have fallen under my feet.
39 For You have girded me with strength for battle. Those who rose against me, You have subdued under me.
40 And You have given me the necks of my enemies, so that I might destroy those who hate me.
41 They cried, but there was no one to save them; and to the LORD, but He did not answer them.
42 Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind. I tread them flat as the clay in the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the contentions of the people. You have made me the head of the heathen. A people I have not known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear, they shall obey me. The strangers shall be in subjection to me.
45 Strangers shall shrink away, and fear in their borders.
46 Let the LORD live and blessed be my strength. And the God of my salvation be exalted.
47 It is God Who avenges me and subdues the people under me.
48 O, my Deliverer from my enemies, You have lifted me up from those who rose against me! You have delivered me from the cruel man.
49 Therefore, I will praise You among the nations, O LORD, and will sing to Your Name.
50 He gives great deliverances to His king and shows mercy to His anointed; to David, and to his seed, forever. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.
3 And the Word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2 “Arise. Go to Nineveh, that great city; and preach to it the preaching which I command you.”
3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the Word of the LORD. Now, Nineveh was a large city of three days’ journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For Word came to the king of Nineveh. And he rose from his throne. And he laid his robe aside and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.
7 And he proclaimed and said through Nineveh, (by the counsel of the king and his nobles) saying, “Let neither man nor beast, bullock nor sheep, taste anything nor feed nor drink water.
8 “But let man and beast put on sackcloth and cry mightily to God. Indeed, let every man turn from his evil way, and from the wickedness that is in their hands.
9 “Who can tell if God will turn and have compassion and turn away from His fierce wrath, so that we do not perish?”
10 And God saw their works — that they turned from their evil ways — and God turned from of the evil that He had said that He would do to them; and He did it not.
4 Therefore it displeased Jonah exceedingly; and he was angry.
2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, “Ah now, O LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore, I fled to Tarshish before. For I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. And You turn from evil.
3 “Therefore, O LORD, I beg You, take my life from me now. For it is better for me to die than to live.”
4 “Then the LORD said, “Do you do well to be angry?
5 So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. And he made a booth there and sat under it, in the shadow, until he might see what would be done in the city.
6 And the LORD God prepared a plant, and made it to come up over Jonah, so that it might be a shade over his head and deliver him from his grief. So, Jonah was exceedingly glad for the plant.
7 But when the morning rose the next day, God prepared a worm. And it struck the plant, so that it withered.
8 And when the Sun arose, God also prepared a fervent east wind. And the Sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted and wished in his heart to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
9 And God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “I do well to be angry unto death!”
10 Then the LORD said, “You have had pity on a plant which you have neither tended nor made grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.
11 And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are 120,000 people, and many cattle, who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand?
27 And when the fourteenth night had come, as we were carried to and fro in the Adriatic (about midnight), the shipmen suspected that some country approached.
28 And they sounded and found it to be twenty fathoms. And when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
29 Then, fearing they would have fallen into some rough places, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day to come.
30 Now as the sailors were about to escape the ship, and had let down the skiff into the sea, under a pretense of casting anchors from the bow,
31 Paul said to the Centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you cannot be safe!”
32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the skiff, and let it fall away.
33 And as the day dawned, Paul encouraged them all to eat, saying, “This is the fourteenth day that you have expectantly waited, and continued fasting, receiving nothing.
34 “Therefore I encourage you to eat! For this is for your safety. For not a hair shall fall from the head of any of you!”
35 And when he had said this, he took bread (and gave thanks to God in the presence of them all), and broke it, and began to eat.
36 Then they were all encouraged. And they also ate.
37 Now there were altogether two hundred seventy-six souls onboard the ship.
38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and cast out the wheat into the sea.
39 And when it was day, they did not recognize the country. But they spied a certain creek with a bank, into which they intended (if possible) to thrust in the ship.
40 So when they had taken up the anchors, they committed to the sea, and released the rudder ropes, and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind, and drew to the shore.
41 And having fallen into a place where two seas met, they thrust in the ship. And the bow stuck fast, and could not be moved. But the stern was broken with the violence of the waves.
42 Then the soldiers planned to kill the prisoners, so that none of them could swim away and escape.
43 But the Centurion (wanting to save Paul) stopped them from carrying out this plan, and commanded that those who could swim should cast themselves into the sea first, and get to land
44 (as well as the others - some on boards, and some on certain pieces of the ship). And so it happened that they all were brought safely to land.
18 And it happened that as He was alone praying, His disciples were with Him. And He asked them, saying, “Whom do the people say that I am?”
19 They answered, and said, “John Baptist. And others say, Elijah. And some say that one of the old Prophets has risen again.”
20 And He said to them, “But Whom do you say that I am?” Peter answered, and said, “The Christ of God.”
21 And He warned and commanded them to tell that to no one,
22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, and by the chief priests and scribes, and be killed; and the third day rise again.”
23 And He said to them all, “If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
24 “For whoever would save his life, shall lose it. And whoever shall lose his life, for my sake, the same shall save it.
25 "For what does it benefit a man if he wins the whole world and destroys himself, or loses himself?
26 “For whoever shall be ashamed of Me and My words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when He shall come in His own Glory, and in the Glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
27 “And I tell you truly, there are some standing here who shall not taste of death till they have seen the Kingdom of God.”
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