Bible verses about "morning prayer" | Bishops

¹ In the lande of Hus there was a man whose name was Iob, & the same was a perfect and iust man, one that feared God and eschued euill ² And he had seuen sonnes and three daughters ³ His substaunce also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great householde: so that he was one of the most principall men among all them of the east [countrey. ⁴ And his sonnes went and banquetted in their houses euery one his day, and sent for their three sisters to eate and drinke with them ⁵ And when the dayes of their banquetting were gone about, Iob sent and sanctified them, and gat vp early and offered for euery one a burnt offring: For Iob saide, It may be that my sonnes haue done some offence, & haue ben vnthankfull to God in their heartes. Thus did Iob euery day ⁶ And vpon a day when the children of God came and stoode before the lord, Satan came also among them ⁷ And the Lorde saide vnto Satan Whence comest thou? Satan aunswered the Lorde and saide: From compassing the earth to and fro, & from walking through it ⁸ And the Lorde saide vnto Satan: Hast thou not considered my seruaunt Iob, how there is none lyke him in the earth? a perfect and a iust man, one that feareth God, and eschueth euill ⁹ Satan aunswered, and saide vnto the Lorde: Doth Iob feare God for naught ¹⁰ Hast thou not preserued him and his house, and al that he hath on euery side? Thou hast blessed the worke of his handes, and his possession is encreased in the lande ¹¹ But laye thyne hand now vpon him, and touche all that he hath, and he shall curse thee to thy face ¹² And the Lorde saide vnto Satan: Lo, all that he hath be in thy power, only vpon him selfe see that thou lay not thine hand. And Satan went foorth from the presence of the Lorde ¹³ And vpon a certayne day, when his sonnes and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house ¹⁴ There came a messenger vnto Iob, and sayde: The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them ¹⁵ And the Sabees came violently, and toke them away, yea they haue slayne thy seruauntes with the edge of the sword: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came another, and sayde: The fire of God is fallen from heauen, and hath brent vp thy sheepe and seruauntes, and consumed them: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee ¹⁷ And whyle he was yet speaking there came another, and sayde: The Caldees made out their bandes, and fel vpon the camels, and haue caried them away, yea and slayne thy seruauntes with the sworde: and I only am gotten away alone to tell thee ¹⁸ And whyle he was yet speaking there came an other, and sayde: Thy sonnes and thy daughters were eating and drincking wine in their eldest brothers house ¹⁹ And behold there came a mightie great wind from beyond the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, whiche fell vpon thy children, and they are dead: and I am gotten away alone to tell thee ²⁰ Then Iob stoode vp, and rent his clothes, & shaued his head, fell downe vpon the ground, worshipped ²¹ And sayde: Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, & naked shall I turne thyther againe: The Lorde gaue & the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lorde ²² In all these thinges dyd Iob not offende, nor charged God foolishly

¹ Geue eare vnto my wordes O God: vnderstande thou my pensifnesse ² Hearken thou vnto the voyce of my crying my kyng and my Lorde: for vnto thee I wyll make my prayer ³ Thou shalt heare my voyce betymes O God: I wyll early in the morning direct [a prayer] vnto thee, and I wyll looke [for helpe from thee. ⁴ For thou art the Lorde that hath no pleasure in wickednesse: neither can any euyll dwell with thee ⁵ Suche as be foolishe, can not stande in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquitie ⁶ Thou wilt destroy them that make a lye: God wyll abhorre both the bloodthirstie and deceiptfull man ⁷ As for me I wyll come into thyne house, [trusting] in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy feare I will humble my selfe in thyne holy temple ⁸ Leade me O God in thy righteousnesse, because of myne enemies: make thy way playne before my face ⁹ For no trueth is in their mouth, their inwarde partes are very wickednesse: their throte is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue ¹⁰ Destroy thou them O Lord, let them perishe through their owne counsailes: cast them out in the multitude of their vngodlinesse, for they haue rebelled against thee ¹¹ And all they that trust in thee wyll reioyce, they wyll triumph for euer, because thou defendest them: and they that loue thy name, wyll be ioyfull in thee ¹² For thou O God wylt blesse the righteous: and thou wylt compasse hym about with beneuolence, as with a shielde

⁷ As for me I wyll come into thyne house, [trusting] in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy feare I will humble my selfe in thyne holy temple

¹ Haue mercie on me O Lorde accordyng to thy louyng kindnesse: accordyng vnto the multitudes of thy mercies wype out my wickednesse ² Washe me throughly from myne iniquitie: and clense me from my sinne ³ For I do acknowledge my wickednesse: and my sinne is euer before me ⁴ Agaynst thee, only agaynst thee I haue sinned and done this euyll in thy sight: that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying, and founde pure when thou art iudged ⁵ Beholde, I was ingendred in iniquitie: and in sinne my mother conceaued me ⁶ Neuerthelesse, lo thou requirest trueth in the inwarde partes [of me]: & [therfore] thou wylt make me learne wisdome in the secrete [part of myne heart. ⁷ Purge thou me with hyssop and I shalbe cleane: washe thou me, and I shalbe whyter then snowe ⁸ Make thou me to heare [some] ioy and gladnesse: let the bones reioyce which thou hast broken ⁹ Turne thy face from my sinnes: and wype out all my misdeedes ¹⁰ Make thou vnto me a cleane heart O Lorde: and renue thou a ryght spirite within me ¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not thy holy spirite from me ¹² Geue me agayne the comfort of thy saluation: and confirme me with a free wyllyng spirite ¹³ Then wyll I teache thy wayes vnto the wicked: and sinners shalbe conuerted vnto thee ¹⁴ Deliuer me from blood O Lorde, the Lorde of my saluation: and my tongue shall sing with a ioyfull noyse of thy iustice ¹⁵ O Lorde open thou my lippes: and my mouth shall set foorth thy prayse ¹⁶ For thou desirest no sacrifice, els I would geue it thee: thou delightest not in a burnt offering ¹⁷ Sacrifices for God is a mortified spirite: O Lorde thou wylt not despise a mortified and an humble heart ¹⁸ Be thou beneficiall vnto Sion, according to thy gracious good wyll: buylde thou the walles of Hierusalem ¹⁹ Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousnes, with burnt offeringes and oblations: then wyll they offer young bullockes vpon thyne aulter

³⁰ When thou sendest out thy spirite, they be recreated: and thou reuiuest the face of the earth

³⁵ Let your loynes be girde about, and your lyghtes brennyng

²⁹ Iesus aunswered hym, the first of all the commaundementes is: Heare O Israel, The Lorde our God, is one Lorde

⁷⁹ To geue lyght to them that sitte in darknesse, and in the shadowe of death, to guide our feete into the way of peace

¹ In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth ² And the earth was without fourme, and was voyde: & darknes [was] vpon the face of the deepe, and the spirite of God moued vpon the face of the waters ³ And God sayde, let there be light: and there was light ⁴ And God sawe the lyght that it was good: and God deuided the lyght from the darknes ⁵ And God called the light day, and the darknes night: and the euenyng & the mornyng were the first day ⁶ And God said: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it make a diuision betwene waters and waters ⁷ And God made the firmament, and set the diuision betwene the waters which [were] vnder the firmament, and the waters that [were] aboue the firmament: and it was so ⁸ And God called the firmament the heauen: and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day ⁹ And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so ¹⁰ And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good ¹¹ And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth [both] budde and hearbe apt to seede, and fruitfull trees yeeldyng fruite after his kynde, which hath seede in it selfe vpon the earth: and it was so ¹² And the earth brought forth [both] bud and hearbe apt to seede after his kynde, and tree yeeldyng fruite, whiche hath seede in it selfe, after his kynde ¹³ And God sawe that it was good. And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day ¹⁴ And God sayde: let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they may deuide the day and the nyght, and let them be for signes, & seasons, and for dayes, and yeres ¹⁵ And let them be for lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they maye geue light vpo the earth: and it was so ¹⁶ And God made two great lyghtes: a greater lyght to rule the day, and a lesse lyght to rule the nyght, and [he made] starres also ¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shyne vpon the earth ¹⁸ And to rule the day and nyght, and to make difference betweene the lyght and the darknesse: and God saw that it was good ¹⁹ And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day ²⁰ And God sayde: let the waters bryng foorth mouyng creature that hath lyfe, and foule that may flee vpon the earth in the open firmament of heauen ²¹ And God created great whales, and euery lyuyng & mouing creature, which the waters brought foorth after theyr kynde, & euery fethered foule after their kynde: and God saw that it was good ²² And God blessed them, saying: Be fruiteful, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sea, and let foule multiplie in the earth ²³ And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day ²⁴ And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth lyuyng creature after his kynde, cattell, worme, and beastes of the earth after his kynde: and it was so ²⁵ God made the beast of the earth after his kynde, and cattell after his kynde, and euery thyng that creepeth vpon the earth after his kynde: and God sawe that it was good ²⁶ God saide: let vs make man in our image, after our lykenesse, and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea, & of the foule of the ayre, and of cattell, & of all the earth, and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth ²⁷ So God created man in his owne image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them ²⁸ And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth ²⁹ And God sayde: beholde, I haue geuen you euery hearbe bearing seede, which is in the vpper face of all ye earth, and euery tree in the which is the fruite of a tree bearing seede, [that] they may be meate vnto you ³⁰ To euery beast of the earth also, and to euery birde of the aire, and to euery such thing that creepeth vpon ye earth, which doth liue, I haue geuen euery greene hearbe for meate: and it was so ³¹ And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day

¹² Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place

¹⁴ (19:13) Let the wordes of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O God: my strength and my redeemer

⁸ Bestirre thee O my glory, bestirre thee O Lute and Harpe: I my selfe wil bestirre me right early in the morning

⁵ Thou shalt not be afrayde of any terrour of the nyght: nor of any arrowe that sleeth by day ⁶ Nor of any pestilence that walketh in the darknesse: nor of any deadly fyt that destroyeth at hygh noone ⁷ A thousande shall fall beside thee, and ten thousande at thy ryght hande: but it shall not come nygh thee

¹⁷ I am louing vnto those that loue me: and they that seeke me early, shall finde me

¹⁰⁵ (119:1) Thy worde is a candell vnto my feete: and a lyght vnto my pathes

¹ O Lorde thou art my Lorde: early in the morning I do seeke thee. (63:2) My soule thirsteth for thee: my fleshe also longeth after thee in a baren and drye lande [where] no water is 2 (63:3) [To see thee] euen so [as] I haue seene thee in the sanctuary: that I might beholde thy power and glory ³ (63:4) For thy louing kindnes is better then life [itselfe]: my lippes shall prayse thee ⁴ (63:5) As long as I liue I wyll blesse thee on this maner: and in thy name I wyll lyft vp my handes ⁵ (63:6) My soule is satisfied euen as it were with mary and fatnes: and my mouth prayseth thee with ioyfull lippes ⁶ (63:7) Haue I not remembred thee in my bed: and thought vpon thee when I was waking ⁷ (63:8) Because thou hast ben my helper: therfore vnder the shadowe of thy wynges do I reioyce ⁸ (63:9) My soule cleaueth fast vnto thee: thy right hande hath vpholden me ⁹ (63:10) And they [that] seeke my soule to oppresse [it]: shall go vnder the earth ¹⁰ (63:11) Euery one of them shalbe killed with the edge of a sworde: and they shalbe a portion for Foxes ¹¹ (63:12) But the king shal reioyce in the Lord, al they shal glory that sweare by him: for the mouth of all them that speake a lye, shalbe stopped

³⁵ And in the mornyng, before day, Iesus, when he was rysen vp, departed, and went out into a solitarie place, and there prayed

³ Thou shalt heare my voyce betymes O God: I wyll early in the morning direct [a prayer] vnto thee, and I wyll looke [for helpe from thee.

¹⁴ Replenishe vs early in the mornyng with thy mercie: and we wyll crye out for ioy, and be glad all the dayes of our lyfe