Psalm 42    1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.    2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?    3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?    4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.    5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.    6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.    7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.    8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.    9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?    10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?    11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

 
Psalm 88    1O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:    2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;    3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.    4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:    5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.    7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.    8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.    9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.    10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.    11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?    12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?    13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.    14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?    15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.    16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.    17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.    18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
 
Psalm 36    1The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.    2For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.    4He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.    5Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.    6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.    7How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.    8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.    9For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.    10O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.    11Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.    12There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
 
  1Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.    2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:    3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:    4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.    5They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?    6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.    7But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.    8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.    9And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.    10The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.


 
Psalm 22    1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?    2O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.    3But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.    4Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.    5They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.    6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.    7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,    8He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.    9But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.    10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.    11Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.    12Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.    13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.    14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.    16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.    17I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.    18They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.    19But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.    20Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.    21Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.    22I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.    23Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.    24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.    25My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.    26The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.    27All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.    28For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.    29All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.    30A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.    31They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

 
John 17    1These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:    2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.    3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.    4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.    5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
 
Job 25    1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,    2Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.    3Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?    4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?    5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.    6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
 
John 17:6-19:
   6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.    7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.    8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.    9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.    10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.    11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.    12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.    13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.    14I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.    15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.    16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.    17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.    18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.    19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
 
 Ezekiel 16:60-63:
   60Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.    61Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.    62And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:    63That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

 
John 5:31-47:
   31If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.    32There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.    33Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.    34But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.    35He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.    36But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.    37And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.    38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.    39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.    40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.    41I receive not honour from men.    42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.    43I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.    44How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?    45Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.    46For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.    47But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?