Daily Office

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

¹O come, let us sing to the Lord; *
let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.

²Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, *
and show ourselves glad in him with psalms.

³For the Lord is a great God, *
and a great King above all gods.

⁴In his hand are all the corners of the earth, *
and the strength of the hills is his also.

⁵The sea is his, and he made it; *
and his hands prepared the dry land.

⁶O come, let us worship and bow down, *
and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

⁷For he is the Lord our God, *
and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

⁴For the word of the Lord is right, *
and all his works are sure.

⁵He loves righteousness and justice; *
the loving-kindness of the Lord fills the whole earth.

⁶By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, *
by the breath of his mouth all the heavenly hosts.

⁷He gathers up the waters of the ocean as in a water-skin *
and stores up the depths of the sea.

⁸Let all the earth fear the Lord; *
let all who dwell in the world stand in awe of him.

⁹For he spoke, and it came to pass; *
he commanded, and it stood fast.

¹⁰The Lord brings the will of the nations to naught; *
he thwarts the designs of the peoples.

¹¹But the Lord’s will stands fast for ever, *
and the designs of his heart from age to age.

¹²Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord! *
happy the people he has chosen to be his own!

^1:1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. ^1:2The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

^1:3God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ^1:4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. ^1:5God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

^1:6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” ^1:7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. ^1:8God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

^1:9God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so. ^1:10God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good. ^1:11God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so. ^1:12The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. ^1:13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

^1:14God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years; ^1:15and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so. ^1:16God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. ^1:17God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, ^1:18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. ^1:19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

^1:20God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.” ^1:21God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. ^1:22God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” ^1:23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

^1:24God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so. ^1:25God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

^1:26God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” ^1:27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. ^1:28God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” ^1:29God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. ^1:30To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

^1:31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

^2:1The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. ^2:2On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. ^2:3God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.