Morning Prayers – LAUDS

Invitatory Prayers here

Have mercy on me, oh God, according to your steadfast love;

According to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,

And cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions,

And my sin is ever before me.

Against you, you alone, have I sinned,

And done what is evil in your sight,

So that you are justified in your sentence

And blameless when you pass judgment.

Indeed, I was born guilty,

A sinner when my mother conceived me.

You desire truth in the inward being;

Therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;

Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Let me hear joy and gladness;

Let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.

Hide your face from my sins,

And blot out all my iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, oh God,

And put a new and right spirit within me.

Do not cast me away from your presence,

And do not take your holy spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation,

And sustain in me a willing spirit.

Then I will teach transgressors your ways,

And sinners will return to you.

Deliver me from bloodshed, oh God,

Oh God of my salvation,

And my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.

Oh Lord, open my lips,

And my mouth will declare your praise.

For you have no delight in sacrifice;

If I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.

The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;

A broken and contrite heart, oh God, you will not despise.

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;

Rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,

Then you will delight in right sacrifices,

In burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;

Then bulls will be offered on your altar.

Oh Lord, I have heard of your renown,

Before your work I stand in awe, oh Lord.

In our own time revive it;

In our own time make it known;

In wrath may you remember mercy.

God came from Teman,

The Holy One from Mount Paran.

His glory covered the heavens,

The earth was full of his praise.

The brightness was like the sun;

Rays came forth from his hand,

Where his power lay hidden.

You came forth to save your people,

To save your anointed.

You trampled the sea with your horses,

Churning the mighty waters.

I hear, and I tremble within;

My lips quiver at the sound.

Rottenness enters into my bones,

My steps tremble beneath me.

I wait quietly for the day of calamity

To come upon the people who attack us.

Though the fig tree does not blossom,

And no fruit showing on the vines;

Though the produce of the olive fails,

And the fields yield no food;

Though the flock is cut off from the fold,

And there is no herd in the stalls,

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord;

I will exult in the God of my salvation.

God, the Lord, is my strength;

He makes my feet like the feet of a deer,

And makes me tread upon the heights.

Praise the Lord, oh Jerusalem!

Praise your God, oh Zion!

For he strengthens the bars of your gates;

He blesses your children within you.

He grants peace within your borders;

He fills you with the finest of wheat.

He sends out his command to the earth;

His word runs swiftly.

He gives snow like wool;

He scatters frost like ashes.

He hurls down hail like crumbs;

Who can stand before his cold?

He sends out his word, and melts them;

He makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.

He declares his word to Jacob,

His statutes and ordinances to Israel.

He has not dealt thus with any other nation;

They do not know his ordinances.

Ephes. 2, 13-16

Now in Christ Jesus you, who sometimes were far off, have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, having made both one and having broken down the middle wall of partition between us, abolishing in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to make in himself of both one new man, by making peace and reconciling both unto God in one body by the Cross, having slain our enmity in his flesh.

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