Morning Prayer for December 7, 2025

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Second Sunday in Advent

MORNING

12.07.2025

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. 95.

1	O come, let us sing unto the Lord; let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.
2	Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and shew ourselves glad in him with psalms.
3	For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4	In his hand are all the corners of the earth, and the strength of the hills is his also.
5	The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands prepared the dry land.
6	O come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7	For he is the Lord our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
8	Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness;
9	When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.
10	Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways;
11	Unto whom I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.
†	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. 35.

1	Plead thou my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me, and fight thou against them that fight against me.
2	Lay hand upon the shield and buckler, and stand up to help me.
3	Bring forth the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
4	Let them be confounded and put to shame, that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, that imagine mischief for me.
5	Let them be as the dust before the wind, and the angel of the Lord scattering them.
6	Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
7	For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause; yea, even without a cause have they made a pit for my soul.
8	Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net, that he hath laid privily, catch himself; that he may fall into his own mischief.
9	And, my soul, be joyful in the Lord; it shall rejoice in his salvation.
10	All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him; yea, the poor, and him that is in misery, from him that spoileth him?
11	False witnesses did rise up: they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
12	They rewarded me evil for good, to the great discomfort of my soul.
13	Nevertheless, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall turn into mine own bosom.
14	I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother; I went heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
15	But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yea, the very abjects came together against me unawares, making mouths at me, and ceased not.
16	With the flatterers were busy mockers, who gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17	Lord, how long wilt thou look upon this? O deliver my soul from the calamities which they bring on me, and my darling from the lions.
18	So will I give thee thanks in the great congregation; I will praise thee among much people.
19	O let not them that are mine enemies triumph over me ungodly; neither let them wink with their eyes that hate me without a cause.
20	And why? their communing is not for peace; but they imagine deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
21	They gaped upon me with their mouths, and said, Fie on thee, fie on thee, we saw it with our eyes.
22	This thou hast seen, O Lord; hold not thy tongue then, go not far from me, O Lord.
23	Awake, and stand up to judge my quarrel; avenge thou my cause, my God, and my Lord.
24	Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not triumph over me.
25	Let them not say in their hearts, There, there, so would we have it; neither let them say, We have devoured him.
26	Let them be put to confusion and shame together, that rejoice at my trouble; let them be clothed with rebuke and dishonour, that boast themselves against me.
27	Let them be glad and rejoice, that favour my righteous dealing; yea, let them say alway, Blessed be the Lord, who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
28	And as for my tongue, it shall be talking of thy righteousness, and of thy praise all the day long.
†	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. 36.

1	My heart sheweth me the wickedness of the ungodly, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
2	For he flattereth himself in his own sight, until his abominable sin be found out.
3	The words of his mouth are unrighteous, and full of deceit: he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good.
4	He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way; neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil.
5	Thy mercy, O Lord, reacheth unto the heavens, and thy faithfulness unto the clouds.
6	Thy righteousness standeth like the strong mountains: thy judgements are like the great deep.
7	Thou, Lord, shalt save both man and beast; How excellent is thy mercy, O God: and the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
8	They shall be satisfied with the plenteousness of thy house; and thou shalt give them drink of thy pleasures, as out of the river.
9	For with thee is the well of life; and in thy light shall we see light.
10	O continue forth thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness unto them that are true of heart.
11	O let not the foot of pride come against me; and let not the hand of the ungodly cast me down.
12	There are they fallen, all that work wickedness; they are cast down, and shall not be able to stand.
†	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.

Here beginneth the 5th chapter of Isaiah.

1	Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2	And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3	And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4	What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5	And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6	And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7	For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8	Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9	In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10	Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11	Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12	And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13	Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14	Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15	And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16	But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17	Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18	Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19	That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
20	Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21	Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22	Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23	Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24	Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25	Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
26	And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27	None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28	Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29	Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30	And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Here endeth the first lesson.

O all ye Works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: