Fourth Sunday in Lent – Evening Prayer

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Psalm 19

1 The heavens declare the glory of God, *
and the firmament shows his handiwork.

2 One day tells its tale to another, *
and one night imparts knowledge to another.

3 Although they have no words or language, *
and their voices are not heard,

4 Their sound has gone out into all lands, *
and their message to the ends of the world.

5 In the deep has he set a pavilion for the sun; *
it comes forth like a bridegroom out of his chamber;
it rejoices like a champion to run its course.

6 It goes forth from the uttermost edge of the heavens
and runs about to the end of it again; *
nothing is hidden from its burning heat.

7 The law of the LORD is perfect and revives the soul;*
the testimony of the LORD is sure and gives wisdom to the innocent.

8 The statutes of the LORD are just and rejoice the heart;*
the commandment of the LORD is clear and gives light to the eyes.

9 The fear of the LORD is clean and endures for ever; *
the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

10 More to be desired are they than gold, more than much fine gold, *
sweeter far than honey, than honey in the comb.

11 By them also is your servant enlightened, *
and in keeping them there is great reward.

12 Who can tell how often he offends? *
cleanse me from my secret faults.

13 Above all, keep your servant from presumptuous sins;
let them not get dominion over me; *
then shall I be whole and sound,
and innocent of a great offense.

14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, *
O LORD, my strength and my redeemer.

 

Fourth Sunday in Lent – Morning Prayer

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Psalm 66

1 Be joyful in God, all you lands;*
sing the glory of his Name;
sing the glory of his praise.

2 Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!*
because of your great strength your enemies cringe before you.

3 All the earth bows down before you,*
sings to you, sings out your Name.”

4 Come now and see the works of God,*
how wonderful he is in his doing toward all people.

5 He turned the sea into dry land,
so that they went through the water on foot,*
and there we rejoiced in him.

6 In his might he rules for ever;
his eyes keep watch over the nations;*
let no rebel rise up against him.

7 Bless our God, you peoples;*
make the voice of his praise to be heard;

8 Who holds our souls in life,*
and will not allow our feet to slip.

9 For you, O God, have proved us;*
you have tried us just as silver is tried.

10 You brought us into the snare;*
you laid heavy burdens upon our backs.

11 You let enemies ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water;*
but you brought us out into a place of refreshment.

12 I will enter your house with burnt-offerings
and will pay you my vows,*
which I promised with my lips
and spoke with my mouth when I was in trouble.

13 I will offer you sacrifices of fat beasts
with the smoke of rams;*
I will give you oxen and goats.

14 Come and listen, all you who fear God,*
and I will tell you what he has done for me.

15 I called out to him with my mouth,*
and his praise was on my tongue.

16 If I had found evil in my heart,*
the Lord would not have heard me;

17 But in truth God has heard me;*
he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

18 Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer,*
nor withheld his love from me.

 

Saturday of the Third Week of Lent – Evening Prayer

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Psalm 136

1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,*
for his mercy endures for ever.

2 Give thanks to the God of gods,*
for his mercy endures for ever.

3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords,*
for his mercy endures for ever.

4 Who only does great wonders,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

5 Who by wisdom made the heavens,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

6 Who spread out the earth upon the waters,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

7 Who created great lights,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

8 The sun to rule the day,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

9 The moon and the stars to govern the night,*
for his mercy endures for ever.

10 Who struck down the firstborn of Egypt,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

11 And brought out Israel from among them,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

12 With a mighty hand and a stretched-out arm,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

13 Who divided the Red Sea in two,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

15 But swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

16 Who led his people through the wilderness,*
for his mercy endures for ever.

17 Who struck down great kings,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

18 And slew mighty kings,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

19 Sihon, king of the Amorites,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

20 And Og, the king of Bashan,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

21 And gave away their lands for an inheritance,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

22 An inheritance for Israel his servant,*
for his mercy endures for ever.

23 Who remembered us in our low estate,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

24 And delivered us from our enemies,*
for his mercy endures for ever;

25 Who gives food to all creatures,*
for his mercy endures for ever.

26 Give thanks to the God of heaven,*
for his mercy endures for ever.

 

Saturday of the Third Week of Lent – Morning Prayer

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Psalm 87

1 On the holy mountain stands the city he has founded;*
the LORD loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

2 Glorious things are spoken of you,*
O city of our God.

3 I count Egypt and Babylon among those who know me;*
behold Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia:
in Zion were they born.

4 Of Zion it shall be said, “Everyone was born in her,*
and the Most High himself shall sustain her.”

5 The LORD will record as he enrolls the peoples,*
“These also were born there.”

6 The singers and the dancers will say,*
“All my fresh springs are in you.”

 

Friday of the Third Week of Lent – Evening Prayer

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Psalm 91

1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High,*
abides under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 He shall say to the LORD,
“You are my refuge and my stronghold,*
my God in whom I put my trust.”

3 He shall deliver you from the snare of the hunter*
and from the deadly pestilence.

4 He shall cover you with his pinions,
and you shall find refuge under his wings;*
his faithfulness shall be a shield and buckler.

5 You shall not be afraid of any terror by night,*
nor of the arrow that flies by day;

6 Of the plague that stalks in the darkness,*
nor of the sickness that lays waste at mid-day.

7 A thousand shall fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right hand,*
but it shall not come near you.

8 Your eyes have only to behold*
to see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because you have made the LORD your refuge,*
and the Most High your habitation,

10 There shall no evil happen to you,*
neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

11 For he shall give his angels charge over you,*
to keep you in all your ways.

12 They shall bear you in their hands,*
lest you dash your foot against a stone.

13 You shall tread upon the lion and the adder;*
you shall trample the young lion and the serpent under your feet.

14 Because he is bound to me in love,
therefore will I deliver him;*
I will protect him, because he knows my Name.

15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him;*
I am with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and bring him to honor.

16 With long life will I satisfy him,*
and show him my salvation.

 

Friday of the Third Week of Lent – Morning Prayer

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Psalm 88

1 O LORD, my God, my Savior,*
by day and night I cry to you.

2 Let my prayer enter into your presence;*
incline your ear to my lamentation.

3 For I am full of trouble;*
my life is at the brink of the grave.

4 I am counted among those who go down to the Pit;*
I have become like one who has no strength;

5 Lost among the dead,*
like the slain who lie in the grave,

6 Whom you remember no more,*
for they are cut off from your hand.

7 You have laid me in the depths of the Pit,*
in dark places, and in the abyss.

8 Your anger weighs upon me heavily,*
and all your great waves overwhelm me.

9 You have put my friends far from me;
you have made me to be abhorred by them;*
I am in prison and cannot get free.

10 My sight has failed me because of trouble;*
LORD, I have called upon you daily;
I have stretched out my hands to you.

11 Do you work wonders for the dead?*
will those who have died stand up and give you thanks?

12 Will your loving-kindness be declared in the grave?*
your faithfulness in the land of destruction?

13 Will your wonders be known in the dark?*
or your righteousness in the country where all is forgotten?

14 But as for me, O LORD, I cry to you for help;*
in the morning my prayer comes before you.

15 LORD, why have you rejected me?*
why have you hidden your face from me?

16 Ever since my youth, I have been wretched and at the point of death;*
I have borne your terrors with a troubled mind.

17 Your blazing anger has swept over me;*
your terrors have destroyed me;

18 They surround me all day long like a flood;*
they encompass me on every side.

19 My friend and my neighbor you have put away from me,*
and darkness is my only companion.

 

Thursday of the Third Week of Lent – Evening Prayer

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Psalm 85

1 You have been gracious to your land, O LORD,*
you have restored the good fortune of Jacob.

2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people*
and blotted out all their sins.

3 You have withdrawn all your fury*
and turned yourself from your wrathful indignation.

4 Restore us then, O God our Savior;*
let your anger depart from us.

5 Will you be displeased with us for ever?*
will you prolong your anger from age to age?

6 Will you not give us life again,*
that your people may rejoice in you?

7 Show us your mercy, O LORD,*
and grant us your salvation.

8 I will listen to what the LORD God is saying,*
for he is speaking peace to his faithful people
and to those who turn their hearts to him.

9 Truly, his salvation is very near to those who fear him,*
that his glory may dwell in our land.

10 Mercy and truth have met together;*
righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

11 Truth shall spring up from the earth,*
and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

12 The LORD will indeed grant prosperity,*
and our land will yield its increase.

13 Righteousness shall go before him,*
and peace shall be a pathway for his feet.

 

Thursday of the Third Week of Lent – Morning Prayer

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Psalm 42

1 As the deer longs for the water-brooks,*
so longs my soul for you, O God.

2 My soul is athirst for God, athirst for the living God;*
when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?

3 My tears have been my food day and night,*
while all day long they say to me,
“Where now is your God?”

4 I pour out my soul when I think on these things;*
how I went with the multitude and led them into the house of God,

5 With the voice of praise and thanksgiving,*
among those who keep holy-day.

6 Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul?*
and why are you so disquieted within me?

7 Put your trust in God;*
for I will yet give thanks to him,
who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

8 My soul is heavy within me;*
therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan,
and from the peak of Mizar among the heights of Hermon.

9 One deep calls to another in the noise of your cataracts;*
all your rapids and floods have gone over me.

10 The LORD grants his loving-kindness in the daytime;*
in the night season his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.

11 I will say to the God of my strength,
“Why have you forgotten me?*
and why do I go so heavily while the enemy oppresses me?”

12 While my bones are being broken,*
my enemies mock me to my face;

13 All day long they mock me*
and say to me, “Where now is your God?”

14 Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul?*
and why are you so disquieted within me?

15 Put your trust in God;*
for I will yet give thanks to him,
who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent – Evening Prayer

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Psalm 81

1 Sing with joy to God our strength*
and raise a loud shout to the God of Jacob.

2 Raise a song and sound the timbrel,*
the merry harp, and the lyre.

3 Blow the ram’s-horn at the new moon,*
and at the full moon, the day of our feast.

4 For this is a statute for Israel,*
a law of the God of Jacob.

5 He laid it as a solemn charge upon Joseph,*
when he came out of the land of Egypt.

6 I heard an unfamiliar voice saying,*
“I eased his shoulder from the burden;
his hands were set free from bearing the load.”

7 You called on me in trouble, and I saved you;*
I answered you from the secret place of thunder
and tested you at the waters of Meribah.

8 Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you:*
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

9 There shall be no strange god among you;*
you shall not worship a foreign god.

10 I am the LORD your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt and said,*
“Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”

11 And yet my people did not hear my voice,*
and Israel would not obey me.

12 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts,*
to follow their own devices.

13 Oh, that my people would listen to me!*
that Israel would walk in my ways!

14 I should soon subdue their enemies*
and turn my hand against their foes.

15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him,*
and their punishment would last for ever.

16 But Israel would I feed with the finest wheat*
and satisfy him with honey from the rock.

 

Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent – Morning Prayer

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Psalm 119:97-120

97 Oh, how I love your law!*
all the day long it is in my mind.

98 Your commandment has made me wiser than my enemies,*
and it is always with me.

99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,*
for your decrees are my study.

100 I am wiser than the elders,*
because I observe your commandments.

101 I restrain my feet from every evil way,*
that I may keep your word.

102 I do not shrink from your judgments,*
because you yourself have taught me.

103 How sweet are your words to my taste!*
they are sweeter than honey to my mouth.

104 Through your commandments I gain understanding;*
therefore I hate every lying way.

105 Your word is a lantern to my feet*
and a light upon my path.

106 I have sworn and am determined*
to keep your righteous judgments.

107 I am deeply troubled;*
preserve my life, O LORD, according to your word.

108 Accept, O LORD, the willing tribute of my lips,*
and teach me your judgments.

109 My life is always in my hand,*
yet I do not forget your law.

110 The wicked have set a trap for me,*
but I have not strayed from your commandments.

111 Your decrees are my inheritance for ever;*
truly, they are the joy of my heart.

112 I have applied my heart to fulfill your statutes*
for ever and to the end.

113 I hate those who have a divided heart,*
but your law do I love.

114 You are my refuge and shield;*
my hope is in your word.

115 Away from me, you wicked!*
I will keep the commandments of my God.

116 Sustain me according to your promise, that I may live,*
and let me not be disappointed in my hope.

117 Hold me up, and I shall be safe,*
and my delight shall be ever in your statutes.

118 You spurn all who stray from your statutes;*
their deceitfulness is in vain.

119 In your sight all the wicked of the earth are but dross;*
therefore I love your decrees.

120 My flesh trembles with dread of you;*
I am afraid of your judgments.