Morning Prayer Readings
Wednrsday after Sexagesima

The First Lesson
The Second Lesson
The Collect
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The Psalter


Psalm 7


The Seventh Psalm

Domine, Deus meus.


O LORD my God, in thee have I put my trust: * save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me;
 
Lest he devour my soul like a lion, and tear it in pieces, * while there is none to help.
 
O LORD my God, if I have done any such thing; * or if there be any wickedness in my hands;
 
If I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me; * (yea, I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy;)
 
Then let mine enemy persecute my soul, and take me; * yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust.
 
Stand up, O LORD, in thy wrath, and lift up thyself, because of the indignation of mine enemies; * arise up for me in the judgment that thou hast commanded.
 
And so shall the congregation of the peoples come about thee: * for their sakes therefore lift up thyself again.
 
The LORD shall judge the peoples: give sentence with me, O LORD, * according to my righteousness, and according to the innocency that is in me.
 
O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end; * but guide thou the just.
 
For the righteous God * trieth the very hearts and reins.
 
My help cometh of God, * who preserveth them that are true of heart.
 
God is a righteous Judge, strong, and patient; * and God is provoked every day.
 
If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; * he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
 
He hath prepared for him the instruments of death; * he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
 
Behold, the ungodly travaileth with iniquity; * he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
 
He hath graven and digged up a pit, * and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other.
 
For his travail shall come upon his own head, * and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate.
 
I will give thanks unto the LORD, according to his righteousness; * and I will praise the Name of the LORD Most High.



 

The First Lesson


Genesis 9:8-17


And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.



 

The Second Lesson

St. Mark 8:27-9:1

And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am? And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets. And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. And he charged them that they should tell no man of him. And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men. And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.



 

The Collect

Sexagesima

O LORD God, who seest that we put not our trust in any thing we do; Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.



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