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.

⁹Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; *
my eye is consumed with sorrow, *
and also my throat and my belly.

¹⁰For my life is wasted with grief, and my years with sighing; *
my strength fails me because of affliction, *
and my bones are consumed.

¹¹I have become a reproach to all my enemies and even to my neighbors, a dismay to those of my acquaintance; *
when they see me in the street they avoid me.

¹²I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; *
I am as useless as a broken pot.

¹³For I have heard the whispering of the crowd; fear is all around; *
they put their heads together against me; *
they plot to take my life.

¹⁴But as for me, I have trusted in you, O Lord. *
I have said, “You are my God.

¹⁵My times are in your hand; *
rescue me from the hand of my enemies, *
and from those who persecute me.

¹⁶Make your face to shine upon your servant, *
and in your loving-kindness save me.”

¹⁰As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. ¹¹Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

¹²When we heard these things, both we and the people of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem. ¹³Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

¹⁴When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”

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.