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.

¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall pay tribute, *
and the kings of Arabia and Saba offer gifts.

¹¹All kings shall bow down before him, *
and all the nations do him service.

¹²For he shall deliver the poor who cries out in distress, *
and the oppressed who has no helper.

¹³He shall have pity on the lowly and poor; *
he shall preserve the lives of the needy.

¹⁴He shall redeem their lives from oppression and violence, *
and dear shall their blood be in his sight.

¹⁵Long may he live! and may there be given to him gold from Arabia; *
may prayer be made for him always, *
and may they bless him all the day long.

¹⁶May there be abundance of grain on the earth, growing thick even on the hilltops; *
may its fruit flourish like Lebanon, *
and its grain like grass upon the earth.

¹⁷May his Name remain for ever and be established as long as the sun endures; *
may all the nations bless themselves in him and call him blessed.

³¹He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field, ³²which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”

³³He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”

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.