Book of Common Prayer
61 Hear my cry, O God! Give ear to my prayer!
2 From the ends of the Earth I will cry to You. When my heart is oppressed, bring me upon the Rock that is higher than I.
3 For You have been my hope, a strong tower against the enemy.
4 I will dwell in Your Tabernacle forever. My trust shall be under the covering of Your wings. Selah.
5 For You, O God, have heard my desires. You have given a heritage to those who fear Your Name.
6 You shall give the king a long life. His years shall be as many ages.
7 He shall dwell before God forever. Prepare mercy and faithfulness, that they may preserve him.
8 So I will always sing praise to Your Name in performing, daily, my vows. To the excellent musician, Jeduthun: A Psalm of David
62 Yet my soul keeps silence to God. From Him comes my salvation.
2 He alone is my strength and my salvation, my defense. I shall not be greatly moved.
3 How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You shall all be slain. You shall be as a bowed wall, as a wall shaken.
4 Yet, they consult to cast him down from his high position. Their delight is in lies. They bless with their mouths but curse with their hearts. Selah.
5 My soul, keep silent to God only (for my hope is from Him).
6 He alone is my strength and my salvation, my defense. I shall not be moved.
7 In God is my salvation and my glory, the rock of my strength. In God is my trust.
8 Trust in Him always, you people. Pour out your hearts before Him, God our Hope. Selah.
9 Surely, men of low degree are a vapor, and the chief men liars. To lay them upon a scale, they are altogether lighter than a breath.
10 Do not trust in oppression or in robbery. Do not be vain. If riches increase, do not set your heart thereon.
11 God has spoken once, twice I have heard it, that power belongs to God;
12 and to You, O LORD, mercy. For You reward everyone according to his work. A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah
112 Blessed is the man who fears the LORD and delights greatly in His Commandments.
2 His seed shall be mighty upon Earth. The generation of the righteous shall be blessed.
3 Riches and treasures shall be in his house and his righteousness endures forever.
4 To the righteous arises light in darkness. He is merciful and full of compassion, and righteous.
5 A good man is merciful and lends. He will measure his affairs by judgment.
6 Surely, he shall never be moved. The righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance.
7 He will not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is fixed, believing in the LORD.
8 His heart is established. He will not fear, until he sees his desire upon his enemies.
9 He has distributed, given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever. His horn shall be exalted with glory.
10 The wicked shall see it and be angry. He shall gnash with his teeth and melt away. The desire of the wicked shall perish. Praise the LORD
115 Not to us, O LORD, not to us; but to Your Name give the glory, for Your loving mercy and for Your truth’s sake.
2 Why shall the heathen say, “Where is their God, now?”
3 But our God is in Heaven. He does whatever He will.
4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
5 They have a mouth and do not speak. They have eyes and do not see.
6 They have ears and do not hear. They have noses and do not smell.
7 They have hands and do not touch. They have feet and do not walk; nor do they make a sound with their throat.
8 Those who make them are like them. So are all who trust in them.
9 O Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.
10 O House of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.
11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD. He is their helper and their shield.
12 The LORD has been mindful of us. He will bless. He will bless the House of Israel. He will bless the House of Aaron.
13 He will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great.
14 The LORD will increase toward you, toward you and toward your children.
15 You are blessed by the LORD, Who made Heaven and Earth.
16 The heavens, even the heavens are the LORD’s; but He has given the Earth to the sons of men.
17 The dead do not praise the LORD, nor any who go down into the silence.
18 But we will praise the LORD from henceforth and forever. Praise the LORD!
11 But there shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse. And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.
2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him—the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the LORD—
3 and shall make Him prudent in the fear of the LORD. For He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, nor rebuke by the hearing of His ears.
4 But with righteousness, He shall judge the lowly. And with equality, He shall rebuke for the poor of the Earth. And He shall strike the Earth with the rod of His Mouth. And with the Breath of His Lips shall He slay the wicked.
5 And justice shall be the belt of His loins, and faithfulness the belt of His reins.
6 The wolf, also, shall dwell with the lamb. And the leopard shall lie with the kid and the calf and the lion and the fat beast, together. And a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed. Their young ones shall lie together. And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play upon the hole of the asp. And the weaned child shall put his hand upon the viper’s hole.
9 Then shall no one hurt or destroy in all the mountain of My Holiness. For the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters that cover the sea.
20 And I saw an angel come down from Heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he took the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan. And he bound him for a thousand years;
3 and cast him into the bottomless pit. And he shut him up and sealed the door upon him - so that he would deceive the people no more - till the thousand years were completed. For after that, he must be let loose for a little season.
4 And I saw thrones. And they sat upon them. And judgment was given them. And I saw the souls of those who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the Word of God, and who did not worship the beast or his image. Nor had they taken his mark upon their foreheads, nor on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead shall not live again until the thousand years are finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he who takes part in the first resurrection. For over such, the second death has no power. But they shall be the priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years.
7 And when the thousand years are over, Satan shall be let loose from his prison,
8 and shall go out to deceive the people who are in the four quarters of the Earth - even Gog and Magog - to gather them together to battle whose number is as the sand of the sea.
9 And they marched across the breadth of the Earth. And they surrounded the tents of the saints, and the beloved city. But fire came down from God, out of Heaven, and devoured them.
10 And the devil, who deceived them, was cast into a lake of fire and brimstone - where the beast and the false prophet are - and shall be tormented, day and night, for evermore.
30 “I can do nothing of My own Self. As I hear, I judge. And My judgment is just, because I seek not My own will, but the will of the Father Who has sent Me.
31 “If I should bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true.
32 “There is Another that bears witness of Me. And I know that the witness which He bears of Me is true.
33 “You sent to John, and he bore witness to the truth.
34 “But I do not receive the testimony of man. Nevertheless, these things I say that you might be saved.
35 “He was a burning and shining lamp. And you were, for a season, willing to rejoice in his light.
36 “But I have greater witness than the witness of John. For the works which the Father has given Me to finish (the same works that I do) bear witness of Me, that the Father sent Me.
37 “And the Father Himself, Who has sent Me, bears witness of Me. You have not heard His voice at any time, nor have you seen His shape.
38 “And His Word you do not have abiding in you. For Whom He has sent, Him you did not believe.
39 “You search the Scriptures. For in them you think to have eternal life. And they are they which testify of Me.
40 “But you will not come to Me, that you might have life.
41 “I do not receive the praise of man.
42 “But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.
43 “I have come in My Father’s Name, and you do not receive Me. If another shall come in his own name, him you will receive!
44 How can you believe, when you receive honor one from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from God alone?
45 “Do not think that I will accuse you to My Father. There is one who accuses you - Moses, in whom you trust.
46 “For had you believed Moses you would have believed Me. For he wrote of Me.
47 “But if you do not believe his writings, how shall you believe My words?”
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