Book of Common Prayer
40 I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined to me and heard my cry.
2 Also, He brought me out of the horrible pit—out of the miry clay—and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings.
3 And He has put in my mouth a new song of praise to our God. Many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not regard the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 You have made many, O LORD my God, Your wonderful works; so that no one can count to You, in order, Your thoughts toward us. I would declare and speak of them, but they are more than I am able to express.
6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire (my ears You have prepared). Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
7 Then I said, “Lo, I come. In the roll of the Book it is written of me.
8 “I desired to do Your good will, O my God. Indeed, Your Law is within my heart.”
9 I have declared righteousness in the great congregation. Lo, I will not refrain my lips. O LORD, You know.
10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart. I have declared Your truth and Your salvation. I have not concealed Your mercy and Your truth from the great Congregation.
11 Do not withdraw Your tender mercy from me, O LORD. Let Your mercy and Your truth always preserve me.
12 For innumerable troubles have surrounded me. My sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up. They are more in number than the hairs of my head. Therefore, my heart has failed me.
13 Let it please You, O LORD, to deliver me. Hurry, O LORD, to help me.
14 Let those who seek my soul to destroy it be confounded and put to shame together. Let those who desire my hurt be driven backward and put to rebuke.
15 Let those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” be destroyed as a reward for their shame,
16 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You, and let those who love Your salvation, say always, “The LORD be praised!”
17 Though I be poor and needy, the LORD thinks on me. You are my Helper and my Deliverer. My God, do not delay. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.
54 Save me, O God, by Your Name; and by Your power, judge me.
2 O God, hear my prayer; hear the words of my mouth.
3 For strangers have risen up against me, and tyrants seek my soul. They have not set God before them. Selah.
4 Behold, God is my helper. The LORD is with those who uphold my soul.
5 He shall reward evil to my enemies. Oh, cut them off in Your truth!
6 I will sacrifice freely to You. I will praise Your Name, O LORD, because it is good.
7 For He has delivered me out of all trouble; and my eye has seen my desire upon my enemies. To him who excels on Neginoth: A Psalm of David, to give instruction
51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of Your compassions, put away my iniquities.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity; and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my iniquities; and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against You, against You only, have I sinned and done evil in Your sight; that You may be just when You speak and pure when You judge.
5 Behold, I was born in iniquity; and in sin my mother conceived me.
6 Behold, You love truth to the core. Therefore, You have taught me wisdom in my core.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness; so that the bones which You have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide Your Face from my sins; and put away all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence; and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation; and establish me with Your free Spirit.
13 Then I shall teach Your ways to the wicked; and sinners shall be converted to You.
14 Deliver me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing joyfully of Your righteousness.
15 Open my lips, O LORD, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
16 For You desire no sacrifice, though I would give it. You do not delight in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit. A contrite and a broken heart, O God, You will not despise.
18 Be favorable to Zion for Your good pleasure. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shall You accept the sacrifices of righteousness, the burnt offering and oblation. Then shall they offer calves upon Your altar. To him who excels: A Psalm of David to give instruction, when Doeg the Edomite came and showed Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
5 “O Assyria, the rod of My wrath! And the staff in their hands is My indignation!
6 “I will send him to a profane nation. And I will give him a charge against the people of My wrath, to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them under feet like the mire in the street.
7 “But he does not think so, nor does his heart think so. But he imagines to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.
8 “For he says, ‘Are not my princes all kings?
9 ‘Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus,
10 ‘just as my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols (seeing their idols were above Jerusalem and above Samaria).’
11 “Shall not I, as I have done to Samaria and to its idols, so do to Jerusalem and to its idols?
12 “But when the LORD has accomplished all His work upon Mount Zion and Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and his glorious and proud looks.
13 “Because he said, ‘By the power of my own hand I have done it, and by my wisdom. Because I am wise.’ “Therefore I have removed the borders of the people, and have spoiled their treasures, and have pulled down the inhabitants like a valiant man.
14 “And My Hand has found the riches of the people as a nest. And as one who gathers leftover eggs, have I gathered all the Earth. And there was no one to move the wing or to open the mouth or to whisper.
15 “Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who moves it? As if the rod could wield itself against him who raises it, or the staff could lift itself up as if it were not wood?
16 “Therefore, the LORD God of Hosts shall send among His fat men leanness. And under His Glory, He shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.
17 “And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame. And it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day
18 “and shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful fields, both soul and flesh. And he shall be as the fainting of a standard bearer.
19 “And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may record them.”
17 These are wells without water - clouds carried about by the wind - to whom the black darkness is reserved forever.
18 For in speaking boastful words of frivolity, they allure (with lewdness and lusts of the flesh) those who had barely escaped from those walking in error;
19 promising them freedom, but themselves the servants of corruption. For by whomever one is overcome, to him also is he in bondage.
20 For if they - after they have escaped from the filthiness of the world through the acknowledging of the Lord and the Savior Jesus Christ - are once again entangled in it and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have acknowledged the way of righteousness than to turn from the Holy Commandment given to them after they have acknowledged it.
22 But it has come to them according to the true proverb, “The dog has returned to his own vomit,” and “a sow, being washed, to wallowing in the mire.”
2 And when John (who was in the prison) heard of the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and said to Him,
3 “Are You Him Who should come? Or shall we look for another?”
4 And Jesus, answering, said to them, “Go, and show John what things you hear and see.
5 “The blind receive sight. And the lame walk. The lepers are cleansed. And the deaf hear. The dead are raised up. And the poor receive the Gospel.
6 “And blessed is he who shall not be offended by Me.”
7 And as they departed, Jesus began to speak to the multitude about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see - a reed shaken with the wind?
8 “But what did you go out to see - a man wearing soft clothes? Behold, those who wear soft clothes are in kings’ houses.
9 “But what did you go out to see - a Prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a Prophet.
10 “For this is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You.’
11 “Truly I say to you, among those who are begotten of women, there has not arisen a greater than John Baptist. Even so, the least in the Kingdom of Heaven, is greater than he.
12 “And from the time of John Baptist until now, the Kingdom of God suffers violence. And the violent take it by force.
13 “For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.
14 “And if you will receive it, this is that Elijah who was to come.
15 “The one who has ears to hear let him hear.
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