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We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
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How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
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Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
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Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
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For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
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But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
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In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
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But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
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Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
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Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
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Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
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Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
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For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
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All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
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Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
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Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
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Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
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Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
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Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
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My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
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Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
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Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
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And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
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Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
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Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
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Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
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All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
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Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
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Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
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So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
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And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
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The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
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She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
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With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
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Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
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I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
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Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
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Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
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There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
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God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
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The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
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The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
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He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
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Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
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The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
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Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
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God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
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For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
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They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
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Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
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Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
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As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
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We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
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According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
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Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
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Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
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Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
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For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
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Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
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Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
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My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
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I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
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Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
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They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
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None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
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For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
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That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
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For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
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Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
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Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
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This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
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Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
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But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
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Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
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For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
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Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
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He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
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Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
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And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
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Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
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And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
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And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
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And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
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And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
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If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
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And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
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And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
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For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
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And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
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And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
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And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
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And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
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And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
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And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
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To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
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And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
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And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
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And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?
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And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
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And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
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But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
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But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
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And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
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And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
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And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
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But he passing through the midst of them went his way,
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And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
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And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.
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And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,
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Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
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And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.
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And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
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And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.
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And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.
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And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
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Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
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And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
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And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.
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And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.
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And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.
