Book of Common Prayer

66 ^(A)Shout for joy to God, all the earth;
²     sing the glory of his name;
    ^(B)give to him glorious praise!
³ Say to God, ^(C)“How awesome are your deeds!
    So great is your power that your enemies ^(D)come cringing to you.
^4 (E)All the earth worships you
    and sings praises to you;
    they sing praises to your name.” Selah
^5 (F)Come and see what God has done:
    ^(G)he is awesome in his deeds towards the children of man.
⁶ He ^(H)turned the sea into dry land;
    they ^(I)passed through the river on foot.
There did we rejoice in him,
⁷     who rules by his might for ever,
whose ^(J)eyes keep watch on the nations—
    let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
⁸ Bless our God, O peoples;
    let the sound of his praise be heard,
⁹ who has kept our soul among the living
    and ^(K)has not let our feet slip.
¹⁰ For you, O God, have ^(L)tested us;
    you have tried us as silver is tried.
¹¹ You brought us into ^(M)the net;
    you laid a crushing burden on our backs;
¹² you let men ^(N)ride over our heads;
    we went through fire and through ^(O)water;
yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.
¹³ I will come into your house with burnt offerings;
    I will ^(P)perform my vows to you,
¹⁴ that which my lips uttered
    and my mouth promised ^(Q)when I was in trouble.
¹⁵ I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals,
    with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;
I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah
^16 (R)Come and hear, all you who fear God,
    and I will tell what he has done for my soul.
¹⁷ I cried to him with my mouth,
    and high praise was on^[a] my tongue.^[b]
18 If I had ^(S)cherished iniquity in my heart,
    ^(T)the Lord would not have listened.
¹⁹ But truly ^(U)God has listened;
    he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
²⁰ Blessed be God,
    because he has not rejected my prayer
    or removed his steadfast love from me!

67 May God ^(W)be gracious to us and bless us
    and make his face to ^(X)shine upon us, Selah
² that ^(Y)your way may be known on earth,
    your ^(Z)saving power among all nations.
^3 (AA)Let the peoples praise you, O God;
    let all the peoples praise you!
⁴ Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
    for you ^(AB)judge the peoples with equity
    and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
^5 (AC)Let the peoples praise you, O God;
    let all the peoples praise you!
⁶ The earth has ^(AD)yielded its increase;
    God, our God, shall bless us.
⁷ God shall bless us;
    let ^(AE)all the ends of the earth fear him!

19 ^(A)The heavens declare the glory of God,
    and the sky above^[a] proclaims his handiwork.
² Day to day pours out speech,
    and night to night reveals knowledge.
³ There is no speech, nor are there words,
    whose voice is not heard.
^4 (B)Their ^(C)voice^[b] goes out through all the earth,
    and their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for ^(D)the sun,
^{5     (E)}which comes out like ^(F)a bridegroom leaving his chamber,
    and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.
⁶ Its rising is from the end of the heavens,
    and its circuit to the end of them,
    and there is nothing hidden from its heat.
^7 (G)The law of the Lord is perfect,^{[c]
    (H)}reviving the soul;
^(I)the testimony of the Lord is ^(J)sure,
    ^(K)making wise ^(L)the simple;
^8 (M)the precepts of the Lord are right,
    rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is ^(N)pure,
    ^(O)enlightening the eyes;
⁹ the fear of the Lord is clean,
    enduring for ever;
the rules^[d] of the Lord are ^(P)true,
    and righteous altogether.
¹⁰ More to be desired are they than ^(Q)gold,
    even much ^(R)fine gold;
^(S)sweeter also than honey
    and drippings of ^(T)the honeycomb.
¹¹ Moreover, by them is your servant warned;
    ^(U)in keeping them there is great reward.
^12 (V)Who can discern his errors?
    ^(W)Declare me innocent from ^(X)hidden faults.
^13 (Y)Keep back your servant also from ^(Z)presumptuous sins;
    let them not have ^(AA)dominion over me!
Then I shall be blameless,
    and innocent of great transgression.
¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
    be acceptable in your sight,
    O Lord, my ^(AB)rock and my ^(AC)redeemer.

46 God is our ^(C)refuge and strength,
    a very ^(D)present^[b] help in ^(E)trouble.
² Therefore we will not fear ^(F)though the earth gives way,
    though the mountains be moved into ^(G)the heart of the sea,
³ though ^(H)its waters roar and foam,
    though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah
⁴ There is ^(I)a river whose streams make glad ^(J)the city of God,
    the holy ^(K)habitation of the Most High.
^5 (L)God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;
    God will help her when morning dawns.
^6 (M)The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;
    he ^(N)utters his voice, the earth ^(O)melts.
^7 (P)The Lord of hosts is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
^8 (Q)Come, behold the works of the Lord,
    how he has brought desolations on the earth.
^9 (R)He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
    he ^(S)breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
    ^(T)he burns the chariots with fire.
^10 (U)“Be still, and know that I am God.
    ^(V)I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth!”
^11 (W)The Lord of hosts is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

² “Plead with your mother, plead—
    for ^(A)she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^(B)her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;
³ lest ^(C)I strip her naked
    and make her as ^(D)in the day she was born,
and ^(E)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
^4 (F)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
    ^(G)because they are children of whoredom.
⁵ For ^(H)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^(I)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who ^(J)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
⁶ Therefore ^(K)I will hedge up her^[a] way with thorns,
    and ^(L)I will build a wall against her,
    so that she cannot find her paths.
⁷ She shall pursue her lovers
    but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
    but shall not find them.
^(M)Then she shall say,
    ‘I will go and return to ^(N)my first husband,
    ^(O)for it was better for me then than now.’
⁸ And ^(P)she did not know
    that it was ^(Q)I who gave her
    ^(R)the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on ^(S)her silver and gold,
    ^(T)which they used for Baal.
⁹ Therefore ^(U)I will take back
    my grain in its time,
    and my wine in its season,
and ^(V)I will take away my wool and my flax,
    which were to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰ Now ^(W)I will uncover her lewdness
    in the sight of her lovers,
    and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
^11 (X)And I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her feasts, her ^(Y)new moons, her ^(Z)Sabbaths,
    and all her ^(AA)appointed feasts.
¹² And ^(AB)I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
    ^(AC)of which she said,
‘These are ^(AD)my wages,
    which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
    ^(AE)and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
¹³ And ^(AF)I will punish her for ^(AG)the feast days of the Baals
    when she burned offerings to them
and ^(AH)adorned herself with her ring and jewellery,
    and went after her lovers
    and forgot me, declares the Lord.

¹⁴ “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
    and ^(AI)bring her into the wilderness,
    and ^(AJ)speak tenderly to her.