Evening Prayer Readings
Thursday after Trinity 15

The First Lesson
The Second Lesson
The Collect
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The Psalter


Psalm 80


The Eightieth Psalm

Qui regis Israel.


HEAR, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; * show thyself also, thou that sittest upon the Cherubim.
 
Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, * stir up thy strength, and come and help us.
 
Turn us again, O God; * show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.
 
O LORD God of hosts, * how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth?
 
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, * and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink.
 
Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours, * and our enemies laugh us to scorn.
 
Turn us again, thou God of hosts; * show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.
 
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; * thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
 
Thou madest room for it; * and when it had taken root, it filled the land.
 
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, * and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees.
 
She stretched out her branches unto the sea, * and her boughs unto the River.
 
Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, * that all they that go by pluck off her grapes?
 
The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up, * and the wild beasts of the field devour it.
 
Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven, * behold, and visit this vine;
 
And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted, * and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself.
 
It is burnt with fire, and cut down; * and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
 
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, * and upon the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self.
 
And so will not we go back from thee: * let us live, and we shall call upon thy Name.
 
Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts; * show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.



 

The First Lesson


Ecclesiasticus 38:24


The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks? He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give the kine fodder. So every carpenter and workmaster, that laboureth night and day: and they that cut and grave seals, and are diligent to make great variety, and give themselves to counterfeit imagery, and watch to finish a work: The smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly: So doth the potter sitting at his work, and turning the wheel about with his feet, who is alway carefully set at his work, and maketh all his work by number; He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet; he applieth himself to lead it over; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace: All these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his work. Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down: They shall not be sought for in publick counsel, nor sit high in the congregation: they shall not sit on the judges' seat, nor understand the sentence of judgment: they cannot declare justice and judgment; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken. But they will maintain the state of the world, and [all] their desire is in the work of their craft.



 

The Second Lesson

St. Matthew 8:14-27

And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them. When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!



 

The Collect

Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity

KEEP, we beseech thee O Lord, thy church with thy perpetual mercy; and, because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.



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