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.

³³The Lord changed rivers into deserts, *
and water-springs into thirsty ground,

³⁴A fruitful land into salt flats, *
because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

³⁵He changed deserts into pools of water *
and dry land into water-springs.

³⁶He settled the hungry there, *
and they founded a city to dwell in.

³⁷They sowed fields, and planted vineyards, *
and brought in a fruitful harvest.

³⁸He blessed them, so that they increased greatly; *
he did not let their herds decrease.

³⁹Yet when they were diminished and brought low, *
through stress of adversity and sorrow,

⁴⁰(He pours contempt on princes *
and makes them wander in trackless wastes)

⁴¹He lifted up the poor out of misery *
and multiplied their families like flocks of sheep.

¹³“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD,
    “that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper,
    and the one treading grapes him who sows seed;
    and sweet wine will drip from the mountains,
    and flow from the hills.
¹⁴I will bring my people Israel back from captivity,
    and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them;
    and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them.
They shall also make gardens,
    and eat their fruit.
¹⁵I will plant them on their land,
    and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,”
    says the LORD your 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.