Morning Prayers – LAUDS

Invitatory Prayers here

Give ear, oh Shepherd of Israel,

You who lead Joseph like a flock!

You who are enthroned upon the cherubim,

Shine forth before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh.

Stir up your might, and come to save us!

Restore us, oh Lord God of hosts,

Let your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.

Oh Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry

Notwithstading your people’s prayers?

You have fed them with the bread of tears,

Given them tears to drink in full measure.

You make us the scorn of our neighbors;

Our enemies laugh among themselves.

Restore us, oh Lord God of hosts,

Let your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.

You brought a vine out of Egypt;

You drove out the nations and planted it.

You cleared the ground for it;

It took deep root and filled the land.

The mountains were covered with its shade,

The mighty cedars with its branches.

It sent out its branches to the sea,

Its shoots to the river.

Why then have you broken down its walls,

So that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

The boar from the forest ravages it,

All that move in the field feed on it.

Turn again, oh God of hosts;

Look down from heaven, and see;

Have regard for this vine.

Have regard for that which your right hand planted,.

The stock you have grown yourself.

They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down;

May they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand,

The one whom you made strong for yourself.

Then we will never turn back from you;

Give us life, and we will call on your name.

Restore us, oh Lord God of hosts,

Let your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.

I will give thanks to you, oh Lord, for though you were angry with me, Your anger turned away, and you comforted me.

Surely God is my salvation;

I will trust, and will not be afraid.

For the Lord God is my strength and my might;

He has become my salvation.

With joy you will draw water

From the wells of salvation.

And you will say in that day:

"Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name;

Make known his deeds among the nations;

Proclaim that his name is exalted.

Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously;

Let this be known in all the earth.

Shout aloud and sing for joy, oh royal Zion,

For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

Sing aloud to God our strength;

Shout for joy to the God of Jacob.

Raise a song, sound the tambourine,

The sweet lyre with the harp.

Blow the trumpet at the new moon,

At the full moon, on our festal day.

For it is a statute for Israel,

An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

He made it a decree in Joseph,

When he went out over the land of Egypt.

I hear a voice I had not known:

"I relieved your shoulder of the burden;

Your hands were freed from the basket.

In distress you called, and I rescued you;

I answered you in the secret place of thunder;

I tested you at the waters of Meribah.

Hear, oh my people, while I admonish you;

Oh Israel, if you would but listen to me!

There shall be no strange god among you;

You shall not bow down to a foreign god.

I am the Lord your God,

Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt,

Opened your mouth wide and filled it.

"But my people did not listen to my voice;

Israel would not submit to me.

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,

To follow their own counsels.

Oh that my people would listen to me,

That Israel would walk in my ways!

Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,

Turn my hand against their foes.

Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him;

This would be their doom which would last forever.

I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,

With honey from the rock I would satisfy you."

Rom. 14, 17-19

The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God, and approved of men. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

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