Wednesday after Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
EVENING
Lord's Prayer and Preces
Our Father, whichwho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done inon earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them thatthose who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
O Lord, open thou our lips.
And our mouth shall show forth thy praise.
O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us.
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.
Praise ye the Lord.
The Lord's Name be praised.
Ps. 12.
| Help me, Lord, for there is not one godly man left; for the faithful are minished from among the children of men. |
| They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour; they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart. |
| The Lord shall root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things; |
| Which have said, With our tongue will we prevail; we are they that ought to speak, who is lord over us? |
| Now for the comfortless trouble's sake of the needy, and because of the deep sighing of the poor, |
| I will up, saith the Lord; and will help every one from him that swelleth against him, and will set him at rest. |
| The words of the Lord are pure words; even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire. |
| Thou shalt keep them, O Lord; thou shalt preserve him from this generation for ever. |
| The ungodly walk on every side: when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke. |
| 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. |
Ps. 13.
| How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? |
| How long shall I seek counsel in my soul, and be so vexed in my heart? how long shall mine enemies triumph over me? |
| Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God; lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death. |
| Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: for if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it. |
| But my trust is in thy mercy, and my heart is joyful in thy salvation. |
| I will sing of the Lord, because he hath dealt so lovingly with me; yea, I will praise the Name of the Lord most Highest. |
| 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. |
Ps. 14.
| The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. |
| They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings; there is none that doeth good, no not one. |
| The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand, and seek after God. |
| But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable; there is none that doeth good, no not one. |
| Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues have they deceived; the poison of asps is under their lips. |
| Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. |
| Destruction and unhappiness is in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known; there is no fear of God before their eyes. |
| Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the Lord? |
| There were they brought in great fear, even where no fear was; for God is in the generation of the righteous. |
| As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor, because he putteth his trust in the Lord. |
| Who shall give salvation unto Israel out of Sion? When the Lord turneth the captivity of his people, then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. |
| 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. |
First Lesson✤
| For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, |
| I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. |
| And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. |
| Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; |
| Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: |
| The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. |
| Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: |
| And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it. |
| Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: |
| Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. |
| Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. |
| Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. |
| Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. |
| Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. |
| The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. |
| The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. |
| So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. |
| And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. |
| Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. |
| But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. |
| For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion. |
MAGNIFICATFirst Canticle
My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden.
For behold, from henceforth
all generations shall call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath magnified me;
and holy is his Name.
And his mercy is on them that fear him
throughout all generations.
He hath showed strength with his arm;
he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seat,
and hath exalted the humble and meek.
He hath filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He remembering his mercy, hath holpen his servant Israel;
as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed, for ever.
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.
Second Lesson✤
| What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? |
| Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. |
| For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? |
| God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. |
| But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) |
| God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? |
| For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? |
| And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. |
| What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; |
| As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: |
| There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. |
| They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. |
| Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: |
| Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: |
| Their feet are swift to shed blood: |
| Destruction and misery are in their ways: |
| And the way of peace have they not known: |
| There is no fear of God before their eyes. |
| Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. |
| Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. |
| But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; |
| Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: |
| For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; |
| Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: |
| Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; |
| To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. |
| Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. |
| Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. |
| Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: |
| Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. |
| Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. |
NUNC DIMITTISSecond Canticle
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
To be a light to lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of thy people Israel.
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.
Collect of the Day
Almighty and merciful God, of whose only gift it cometh, that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable service; Grant, we beseech thee, that we may so faithfully serve thee in this life, that we fail not finally to attain thy heavenly promises, through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect for Peace
O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness, through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.
Collect for Aid Against All Perils
Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night, for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
