Daily Office

¹Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me, *
and consider my voice when I cry to you.

²Let my prayer be set forth in your sight as the incense; *
and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.

³Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, *
and keep the door of my lips.

²Out of the mouths of infants and children *
your majesty is praised above the heavens.

³You have set up a stronghold against your adversaries, *
to quell the enemy and the avenger.

⁴When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, *
the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,

⁵What is man that you should be mindful of him? *
the son of man that you should seek him out?

⁶You have made him but little lower than the angels; *
you adorn him with glory and honor;

⁷You give him mastery over the works of your hands; *
you put all things under his feet:

⁸All sheep and oxen, *
even the wild beasts of the field,

⁹The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, *
and whatsoever walks in the paths of the sea.

¹⁰O Lord our Governor, *
how exalted is your Name in all the world!

¹⁸The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” ¹⁹Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. ²⁰The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. ²¹The LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. ²²The LORD God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. ²³The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

¹O sing to the Lord a new song, *
for he has done marvelous things.

²With his own right hand and with his holy arm *
he has won himself the victory.

³The Lord declared his salvation; *
his righteousness he has openly shown in the sight of the nations.

⁴He has remembered his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel, *
and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God.

⁵Show yourselves joyful to the Lord, all you lands; *
sing, rejoice, and give thanks.

⁶Praise the Lord upon the harp; *
sing to the harp with a psalm of thanksgiving.

⁷With trumpets also and the sound of the horn, *
O show yourselves joyful before the Lord the King.

⁸Let the sea make a noise, and all that is in it, *
the round world, and those who dwell therein.

⁹Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord, *
for he has come to judge the earth.

¹⁰With righteousness shall he judge the world, *
and the peoples with equity.