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.

¹Lord, you have been our refuge *
from one generation to another.

²Before the mountains were brought forth, or the land and the earth were born, *
from age to age you are God.

³You turn us back to the dust and say, *
“Go back, O child of earth.”

⁴For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past *
and like a watch in the night.

⁵You sweep us away like a dream; *
we fade away suddenly like the grass.

⁶In the morning it is green and flourishes; *
in the evening it is dried up and withered.

⁷For we consume away in your displeasure; *
we are afraid because of your wrathful indignation.

⁸Our iniquities you have set before you, *
and our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

⁵So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the LORD’s word. ⁶He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day. ⁷Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone. ⁸The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended. ⁹Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses. ¹⁰Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

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.