I WILL give thanks unto thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; * I will speak of all thy marvellous works.
 
I will be glad and rejoice in thee; * yea, my songs will I make of thy Name, O thou Most Highest.
 
While mine enemies are driven back, * they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
 
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; * thou art set in the throne that judgest right.
 
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, and destroyed the ungodly; * thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
 
O thou enemy, thy destructions are come to a perpetual end; * even as the cities which thou hast destroyed, whose memorial is perished with them.
 
But the LORD shall endure for ever; * he hath also prepared his seat for judgment.
 
For he shall judge the world in righteousness, * and minister true judgment unto the people.
 
The LORD also will be a defence for the oppressed, * even a refuge in due time of trouble.
 
And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee; * for thou, LORD, hast never failed them that seek thee.
 
O praise the LORD which dwelleth in Sion; * show the people of his doings.
 
For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, * and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.
 
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, * thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;
 
That I may show all thy praises within the gates of the daughter of Sion: * I will rejoice in thy salvation.
 
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; * in the same net which they hid privily is their foot taken.
 
The LORD is known to execute judgment; * the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands.
 
The wicked shall be turned to destruction, * and all the people that forget God.
 
For the poor shall not alway be forgotten; * the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever.
 
Up, LORD, and let not man have the upper hand; * let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
 
Put them in fear, O LORD, * that the heathen may know themselves to be but men.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid. And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves. And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead. And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean. And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come? And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought. But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.

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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