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.

¹Blessed be the Lord my rock! *
who trains my hands to fight and my fingers to battle;

²My help and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, *
my shield in whom I trust, *
who subdues the peoples under me.

³O Lord, what are we that you should care for us? *
mere mortals that you should think of us?

⁴We are like a puff of wind; *
our days are like a passing shadow.

⁵Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down; *
touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶Hurl the lightning and scatter them; *
shoot out your arrows and rout them.

⁷Stretch out your hand from on high; *
rescue me and deliver me from the great waters, *
from the hand of foreign peoples,

⁸Whose mouths speak deceitfully *
and whose right hand is raised in falsehood.

⁹O God, I will sing to you a new song; *
I will play to you on a ten-stringed lyre.

¹⁰You give victory to kings *
and have rescued David your servant.

⁴⁵Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of the LORD of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. ⁴⁶Today, the LORD will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky and to the wild animals of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, ⁴⁷and that all this assembly may know that the LORD doesn’t save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

⁴⁸When the Philistine arose, and walked and came near to meet David, David hurried and ran towards the army to meet the Philistine. ⁴⁹David put his hand in his bag, took a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.

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.