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.

²⁴They see your procession, O God, *
your procession into the sanctuary, my God and my King.

²⁵The singers go before, musicians follow after, *
in the midst of maidens playing upon the hand-drums.

²⁶Bless God in the congregation; *
bless the Lord, you that are of the fountain of Israel.

²⁷There is Benjamin, least of the tribes, at the head; the princes of Judah in a company; *
and the princes of Zebulon and Naphtali.

²⁸Send forth your strength, O God; *
establish, O God, what you have wrought for us.

²⁹Kings shall bring gifts to you, *
for your temple’s sake at Jerusalem.

³⁰Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, *
and the peoples, a herd of wild bulls with its calves.

³¹Trample down those who lust after silver; *
scatter the peoples that delight in war.

³²Let tribute be brought out of Egypt; *
let Ethiopia stretch out her hands to God.

³³Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth; *
sing praises to the Lord.

³⁰Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

³¹He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him. ³²Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this,

“He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.
    As a lamb before his shearer is silent,
    so he doesn’t open his mouth.
³³In his humiliation, his judgement was taken away.
    Who will declare His generation?
    For his life is taken from the earth.”

³⁴The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?”

³⁵Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

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.