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.

¹Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful, for I have taken refuge in you; *
in the shadow of your wings will I take refuge *
until this time of trouble has gone by.

²I will call upon the Most High God, *
the God who maintains my cause.

³He will send from heaven and save me; he will confound those who trample upon me; *
God will send forth his love and his faithfulness.

⁴I lie in the midst of lions that devour the people; *
their teeth are spears and arrows, *
their tongue a sharp sword.

⁵They have laid a net for my feet, and I am bowed low; *
they have dug a pit before me, *
but have fallen into it themselves.

⁶Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God, *
and your glory over all the earth.

⁷My heart is firmly fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; *
I will sing and make melody.

⁸Wake up, my spirit; awake, lute and harp; *
I myself will waken the dawn.

⁹I will confess you among the peoples, O Lord; *
I will sing praise to you among the nations.

¹⁰For your loving-kindness is greater than the heavens, *
and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

¹⁹Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions. ²⁰When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

²¹Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! ²²My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me, because innocence was found in me before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

²³Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

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.