Roman Breviary

Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation: But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried: he descended into hell; the third day he arose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven; sitteth at the right hand of God the Father almighty: from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Alleluia.

Let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. For the Lord will not cast off his people: for in his hand are all the ends of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his.

For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. (genuflect) Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us: For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.

Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.

Our limbs refreshed with slumber now,

And sloth cast off, in prayer we bow;

And while we sing thy praises dear,

O Father, be thou present here.

To thee our earliest morning song,

To thee our hearts full powers belong;

And thou, O Holy One, prevent

Each following action and intent.

As shades at morning flee away,

And night before the star of day;

So each transgression of the night

Be purged by thee, celestial Light!

Cut off, we pray thee, each offense,

And every lust of thought and sense:

That by their lips who thee adore

Thou mayst be praised forevermore.

Grant this, O Father ever One

With Christ, thy sole-begotten Son,

And Holy Ghost, whom all adore,

Reigning and blest forevermore.

Amen.

26:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation, * whom shall I fear?

26:1 The Lord is the protector of my life: * of whom shall I be afraid?

26:2 Whilst the wicked draw near against me, * to eat my flesh.

26:2 My enemies that trouble me, * have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

26:3 If armies in camp should stand together against me, * my heart shall not fear.

26:3 If a battle should rise up against me, * in this will I be confident.

26:4 One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; * that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

26:4 That I may see the delight of the Lord, * and may visit his temple.

26:5 For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; * in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.

26:6 He hath exalted me upon a rock: * and now he hath lifted up my head above my enemies.

26:6 I have gone round, and have offered up in his tabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation: * I will sing, and recite a psalm to the Lord.

26:7 Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: * have mercy on me and hear me.

26:8 My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: * thy face, O Lord, will I still seek.

26:9 Turn not away thy face from me; * decline not in thy wrath from thy servant.

26:9 Be thou my helper, * forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour.

26:10 For my father and my mother have left me: * but the Lord hath taken me up.

26:11 Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, * and guide me in the right path, because of my enemies.

26:12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; * for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

26:13 I believe to see the good things of the Lord * in the land of the living.

26:14 Expect the Lord, do manfully, * and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

27:1 Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: my God, be not thou silent to me: * lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

27:2 Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; * when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.

27:3 Draw me not away together with the wicked; * and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not:

27:3 Who speak peace with their neighbour, * but evils are in their hearts.

27:4 Give them according to their works, * and according to the wickedness of their inventions.

27:4 According to the works of their hands give thou to them: * render to them their reward.

27:5 Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the operations of his hands: * thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build them up.

27:6 Blessed be the Lord, * for he hath heard the voice of my supplication.

27:7 The Lord is my helper and my protector: * in him hath my heart confided, and I have been helped.

27:7 And my flesh hath flourished again, * and with my will I will give praise to him.

27:8 The Lord is the strength of his people, * and the protector of the salvation of his anointed.

27:9 Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: * and rule them and exalt them for ever.

28:1 Bring to the Lord, O ye children of God: * bring to the Lord the offspring of rams.

28:2 Bring to the Lord glory and honour: bring to the Lord glory to his name: * adore ye the Lord in his holy court.

28:3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath thundered, * The Lord is upon many waters.

28:4 The voice of the Lord is in power; * the voice of the Lord in magnificence.

28:5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars: * yea, the Lord shall break the cedars of Libanus.

28:6 And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, * and as the beloved son of unicorns.

28:7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flame of fire: * The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert: and the Lord shall shake the desert of Cades.

28:9 The voice of the Lord prepareth the stags: and he will discover the thick woods: * and in his temple all shall speak his glory.

28:10 The Lord maketh the flood to dwell: * and the Lord shall sit king for ever.

28:11 The Lord will give strength to his people: * the Lord will bless his people with peace.

29:2 I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: * and hast not made my enemies to rejoice over me.

29:3 O Lord my God, I have cried to thee, * and thou hast healed me.

29:4 Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: * thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.

29:5 Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints: * and give praise to the memory of his holiness.

29:6 For wrath is in his indignation; * and life in his good will.

29:6 In the evening weeping shall have place, * and in the morning gladness.

29:7 And in my abundance I said: * I shall never be moved.

29:8 O Lord, in thy favour, * thou gavest strength to my beauty.

29:8 Thou turnedst away thy face from me, * and I became troubled.

29:9 To thee, O Lord, will I cry: * and I will make supplication to my God.

29:10 What profit is there in my blood, * whilst I go down to corruption?

29:10 Shall dust confess to thee, * or declare thy truth?

29:11 The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: * the Lord became my helper.

29:12 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: * thou hast cut my sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:

29:13 To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret: * O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever.

30:2 In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: * deliver me in thy justice.

30:3 Bow down thy ear to me: * make haste to deliver me.

30:3 Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, * to save me.

30:4 For thou art my strength and my refuge; * and for thy name’s sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.

30:5 Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: * for thou art my protector.

30:6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit: * thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

30:7 Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, * to no purpose.

30:7 But I have hoped in the Lord: * I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy.

30:8 For thou hast regarded my humility, * thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.

30:9 And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: * thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

30:10 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: * my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:

30:11 For my life is wasted with grief: * and my years in sighs.

30:11 My strength is weakened through poverty * and my bones are disturbed.

30:12 I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; * and a fear to my acquaintance.

30:12 They that saw me without fled from me. * I am forgotten as one dead from the heart.

30:13 I am become as a vessel that is destroyed. * For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about.

30:14 While they assembled together against me, * they consulted to take away my life.

30:15 But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: * I said: Thou art my God. My lots are in thy hands.

30:16 Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; * and from them that persecute me.

30:17 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy. * Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee.

30:18 Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell. * Let deceitful lips be made dumb.

30:19 Which speak iniquity against the just, * with pride and abuse.

30:20 How great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, * which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee!

30:20 Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, * in the sight of the sons of men.

30:21 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, * from the disturbance of men.

30:21 Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle * from the contradiction of tongues.

30:22 Blessed be the Lord, * for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.

30:23 But I said in the excess of my mind: * I am cast away from before thy eyes.

30:23 Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, * when I cried to thee.

30:24 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: * for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.

30:25 Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, * all ye that hope in the Lord.

31:1 Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven * and whose sins are covered.

31:2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, * and in whose spirit there is no guile.

31:3 Because I was silent my bones grew old; * whilst I cried out all the day long.

31:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: * I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.

31:5 I have acknowledged my sin to thee, * and my injustice I have not concealed.

31:5 I said I will confess against myself my injustice to the Lord: * and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.

31:6 For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee * in a seasonable time.

31:6 And yet in a flood of many waters, * they shall not come nigh unto him.

31:7 Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: * my joy, deliver me from them that surround me.

31:8 I will give thee understanding, and I will instruct thee in this way, in which thou shalt go: * I will fix my eyes upon thee.

31:9 Do not become like the horse and the mule, * who have no understanding.

31:9 With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, * who come not near unto thee.

31:10 Many are the scourges of the sinner, * but mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the Lord.

31:11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, * and glory, all ye right of heart.

32:1 Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: * praise becometh the upright.

32:2 Give praise to the Lord on the harp; * sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.

32:3 Sing to him a new canticle, * sing well unto him with a loud noise.

32:4 For the word of the Lord is right, * and all his works are done with faithfulness.

32:5 He loveth mercy and judgment; * the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

32:6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; * and all the power of them by the spirit of his mouth:

32:7 Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; * laying up the depths in storehouses.

32:8 Let all the earth fear the Lord, * and let all the inhabitants of the world be in awe of him.

32:9 For he spoke and they were made: * he commanded and they were created.

32:10 The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; * and he rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes.

32:11 But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: * the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

32:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: * the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.

32:13 The Lord hath looked from heaven: * he hath beheld all the sons of men.

32:14 From his habitation which he hath prepared, * he hath looked upon all that dwell on the earth.

32:15 He who hath made the hearts of every one of them: * who understandeth all their works.

32:16 The king is not saved by a great army: * nor shall the giant be saved by his own great strength.

32:17 Vain is the horse for safety: * neither shall he be saved by the abundance of his strength.

32:18 Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: * and on them that hope in his mercy.

32:19 To deliver their souls from death; * and feed them in famine.

32:20 Our soul waiteth for the Lord: * for he is our helper and protector.

32:21 For in him our heart shall rejoice: * and in his holy name we have trusted.

32:22 Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, * as we have hoped in thee.

33:2 I will bless the Lord at all times, * his praise shall be always in my mouth.

33:3 In the Lord shall my soul be praised: * let the meek hear and rejoice.

33:4 O magnify the Lord with me; * and let us extol his name together.

33:5 I sought the Lord, and he heard me; * and he delivered me from all my troubles.

33:6 Come ye to him and be enlightened: * and your faces shall not be confounded.

33:7 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: * and saved him out of all his troubles.

33:8 The Angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: * and shall deliver them.

33:9 O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: * blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

33:10 Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: * for there is no want to them that fear him.

33:11 The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: * but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

33:12 Come, children, hearken to me: * I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

33:13 Who is the man that desireth life: * who loveth to see good days?

33:14 Keep thy tongue from evil, * and thy lips from speaking guile.

33:15 Turn away from evil and do good: * seek after peace and pursue it.

33:16 The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: * and his ears unto their prayers.

33:17 But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: * to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

33:18 The just cried, and the Lord heard them: * and delivered them out of all their troubles.

33:19 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: * and he will save the humble of spirit.

33:20 Many are the afflictions of the just; * but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.

33:21 The Lord keepeth all their bones, * not one of them shall be broken.

33:22 The death of the wicked is very evil: * and they that hate the just shall be guilty.

33:23 The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants: * and none of them that trust in him shall offend.

34:1 Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: * overthrow them that fight against me.

34:2 Take hold of arms and shield: * and rise up to help me.

34:3 Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that persecute me: * say to my soul: I am thy salvation.

34:4 Let them be confounded and ashamed * that seek after my soul.

34:4 Let them be turned back and be confounded * that devise against me.

34:5 Let them become as dust before the wind: * and let the Angel of the Lord straiten them.

34:6 Let their way become dark and slippery; * and let the Angel of the Lord pursue them.

34:7 For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: * without cause they have upbraided my soul.

34:8 Let the snare which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net which he hath hidden catch him: * and into that very snare let them fall.

34:9 But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; * and shall be delighted in his salvation.

34:10 All my bones shall say: * Lord, who is like to thee?

34:10 Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; * the needy and the poor from them that strip him.

34:11 Unjust witnesses rising up * have asked me things I knew not.

34:12 They repaid me evil for good: * to the depriving me of my soul.

34:13 But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, * I was clothed with haircloth.

34:13 I humbled my soul with fasting; * and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.

34:14 As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: * as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.

34:15 But they rejoiced against me, and came together: * scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.

34:16 They were separated, and repented not: they tempted me, they scoffed at me with scorn: * they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

34:17 Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? * rescue thou my soul from their malice: my only one from the lions.

34:18 I will give thanks to thee in a great church; * I will praise thee in a strong people.

34:19 Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: * who have hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes.

34:20 For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; * and speaking in the anger of the earth they devised guile.

34:21 And they opened their mouth wide against me; * they said: Well done, well done, our eyes have seen it.

34:22 Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent: * O Lord, depart not from me.

34:23 Arise, and be attentive to my judgment: * to my cause, my God, and my Lord.

34:24 Judge me, O Lord my God according to thy justice, * and let them not rejoice over me.

34:25 Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: * neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.

34:26 Let them blush: and be ashamed together, * who rejoice at my evils.

34:26 Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, * who speak great things against me.

34:27 Let them rejoice and be glad, who are well pleased with my justice, * and let them say always: The Lord be magnified, who delights in the peace of his servant.

34:28 And my tongue shall meditate thy justice, * thy praise all the day long.

35:2 The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: * there is no fear of God before his eyes.

35:3 For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, * that his iniquity may be found unto hatred.

35:4 The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: * he would not understand that he might do well.

35:5 He hath devised iniquity on his bed, * he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

35:6 O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, * and thy truth reacheth even to the clouds.

35:7 Thy justice is as the mountains of God, * thy judgments are a great deep.

35:7 Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord: * O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God!

35:8 But the children of men * shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings.

35:9 They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; * and thou shalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure.

35:10 For with thee is the fountain of life; * and in thy light we shall see light.

35:11 Extend thy mercy to them that know thee, * and thy justice to them that are right in heart.

35:12 Let not the foot of pride come to me, * and let not the hand of the sinner move me.

35:13 There the workers of iniquity are fallen, * they are cast out, and could not stand.

36:1 Be not emulous of evildoers; * nor envy them that work iniquity.

36:2 For they shall shortly wither away as grass, * and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

36:3 Trust in the Lord, and do good, * and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches.

36:4 Delight in the Lord, * and he will give thee the requests of thy heart.

36:5 Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, * and he will do it.

36:6 And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday: * be subject to the Lord and pray to him.

36:7 Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; * the man who doth unjust things.

36:8 Cease from anger, and leave rage; * have no emulation to do evil.

36:9 For the evildoers shall be cut off: * but they that wait upon the Lord shall inherit the land.

36:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: * and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.

36:11 But the meek shall inherit the land, * and shall delight in abundance of peace.

36:12 The sinner shall watch the just man: * and shall gnash upon him with his teeth.

36:13 But the Lord shall laugh at him: * for he foreseeth that his day shall come.

36:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword: * they have bent their bow.

36:14 To cast down the poor and needy, * to kill the upright of heart.

36:15 Let their sword enter into their own hearts, * and let their bow be broken.

36:16 Better is a little to the just, * than the great riches of the wicked.

36:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken in pieces; * but the Lord strengtheneth the just.

36:18 The Lord knoweth the days of the undefiled; * and their inheritance shall be for ever.

36:19 They shall not be confounded in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be filled, * because the wicked shall perish.

36:20 And the enemies of the Lord, presently after they shall be honoured and exalted, * shall come to nothing and vanish like smoke.

36:21 The sinner shall borrow, and not pay again; * but the just sheweth mercy and shall give.

36:22 For such as bless him shall inherit the land: * but such as curse him shall perish.

36:23 With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, * and he shall like well his way.

36:24 When he shall fall he shall not be bruised, * for the Lord putteth his hand under him.

36:25 I have been young, and now am old; * and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

36:26 He sheweth mercy, and lendeth all the day long; * and his seed shall be in blessing.

36:27 Decline from evil and do good, * and dwell for ever and ever.

36:28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: * they shall be preserved for ever.

36:28 The unjust shall be punished, * and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

36:29 But the just shall inherit the land, * and shall dwell therein for evermore.

36:30 The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: * and his tongue shall speak judgment.

36:31 The law of his God is in his heart, * and his steps shall not be supplanted.

36:32 The wicked watcheth the just man, * and seeketh to put him to death.

36:33 But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; * nor condemn him when he shall be judged.

36:34 Expect the Lord and keep his way: and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: * when the sinners shall perish thou shalt see.

36:35 I have seen the wicked highly exalted, * and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus.

36:36 And I passed by, and lo, he was not: * and I sought him and his place was not found.

36:37 Keep innocence, and behold justice: * for there are remnants for the peaceable man.

36:38 But the unjust shall be destroyed together: * the remnants of the wicked shall perish.

36:39 But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, * and he is their protector in the time of trouble.

36:40 And the Lord will help them and deliver them: * and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them, because they have hoped in him.

37:2 Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; * nor chastise me in thy wrath.

37:3 For thy arrows are fastened in me: * and thy hand hath been strong upon me.

37:4 There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: * there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins.

37:5 For my iniquities are gone over my head: * and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.

37:6 My sores are putrified and corrupted, * because of my foolishness.

37:7 I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: * I walked sorrowful all the day long.

37:8 For my loins are filled with illusions; * and there is no health in my flesh.

37:9 I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: * I roared with the groaning of my heart.

37:10 Lord, all my desire is before thee, * and my groaning is not hidden from thee.

37:11 My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, * and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.

37:12 My friends and my neighbours * have drawn near, and stood against me.

37:12 And they that were near me stood afar off: * and they that sought my soul used violence.

37:13 And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, * and studied deceits all the day long.

37:14 But I, as a deaf man, heard not: * and as a dumb man not opening his mouth.

37:15 And I became as a man that heareth not: * and that hath no reproofs in his mouth.

37:16 For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: * thou wilt hear me, O Lord my God.

37:17 For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: * and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.

37:18 For I am ready for scourges: * and my sorrow is continually before me.

37:19 For I will declare my iniquity: * and I will think for my sin.

37:20 But my enemies live, and are stronger than I: * and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

37:21 They that render evil for good, have detracted me, * because I followed goodness.

37:22 Forsake me not, O Lord my God: * do not thou depart from me.

37:23 Attend unto my help, * O Lord, the God of my salvation.

Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lesson from the book of Osee

1 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land.

2 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.

3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.

4 But yet let not any man judge: and let not a man be rebuked: for thy people are as they that contradict the priest.

5 And thou shalt fall to day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent.

6 My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

7 According to the multitude of them so have they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.

8 They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.

9 And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.

10 And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in not observing his law.

Let us pray.

Grant us, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, ever to think such things as be reasonable, and in every word and work of ours, to do always that is well pleasing in thy sight.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.