Morning Prayer for December 12, 2025

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Friday after Second Sunday in Advent

MORNING

12.12.2025

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. 62.

1	My soul truly waiteth still upon God, for of him cometh my salvation.
2	He verily is my strength and my salvation; he is my defence, so that I shall not greatly fall.
3	How long will ye imagine mischief against every man? ye shall be slain all the sort of you; yea, as a tottering wall shall ye be, and like a broken hedge.
4	Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt; their delight is in lies; they give good words with their mouth, but curse with their heart.
5	Nevertheless, my soul, wait thou still upon God; for my hope is in him.
6	He truly is my strength and my salvation; he is my defence, so that I shall not fall.
7	In God is my health, and my glory; the rock of my might, and in God is my trust.
8	O put your trust in him alway, ye people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope.
9	As for the children of men, they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful upon the weights, they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.
10	O trust not in wrong and robbery, give not yourselves unto vanity: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
11	God spake once, and twice I have also heard the same: that power belongeth unto God;
12	And that thou, Lord, art merciful; for thou rewardest every man according to his work.
†	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. 63.

1	O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee.
2	My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee, in a barren and dry land where no water is.
3	Thus have I looked for thee in holiness, that I might behold thy power and glory.
4	For thy lovingkindness is better than the life itself: my lips shall praise thee.
5	As long as I live will I magnify thee on this manner, and lift up my hands in thy Name.
6	My soul shall be satisfied, even as it were with marrow and fatness, when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips.
7	Have I not remembered thee in my bed, and thought upon thee when I was waking?
8	Because thou hast been my helper; therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
9	My soul hangeth upon thee; thy right hand hath upholden me.
10	These also that seek the hurt of my soul, they shall go under the earth.
11	Let them fall upon the edge of the sword, that they may be a portion for foxes.
12	But the King shall rejoice in God; all they also that swear by him shall be commended: for the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
†	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. 64.

1	Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
2	Hide me from the gathering together of the froward, and from the insurrection of wicked doers;
3	Who have whet their tongue like a sword, and shoot out their arrows, even bitter words;
4	That they may privily shoot at him that is perfect: suddenly do they hit him, and fear not.
5	They encourage themselves in mischief, and commune among themselves how they may lay snares, and say that no man shall see them.
6	They imagine wickedness, and practise it; that they keep secret among themselves, every man in the deep of his heart.
7	But God shall suddenly shoot at them with a swift arrow, that they shall be wounded.
8	Yea, their own tongues shall make them fall; insomuch that whoso seeth them shall laugh them to scorn.
9	And all men that see it shall say, This hath God done; for they shall perceive that it is his work.
10	The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord, and put his trust in him; and all they that are true of heart 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.

Here beginneth the 37th chapter of Isaiah.

1	And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2	And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3	And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4	It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
5	So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6	And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7	Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8	So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9	And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10	Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11	Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
12	Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
13	Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
14	And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
15	And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying,
16	O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
17	Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
18	Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
19	And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
20	Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, even thou only.
21	Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
22	This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23	Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
24	By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
25	I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
26	Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
27	Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
28	But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
29	Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
30	And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
31	And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32	For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
33	Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
34	By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.
35	For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
36	Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37	So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
38	And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

Here endeth the first lesson.

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