Morning Prayers – LAUDS

Invitatory Prayers here

Ordinary: Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew within me a new and right spirit.

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.

Ordinary: Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew within me a new and right spirit.

Bless the Lord of justice,

Let his greatness be on every tongue,

Let his praises be sung in Jerusalem.

For you, Jerusalem, Holy City,

God has scourged you for what you have done

But will still take pity on the children of the upright.

Thank the Lord as he deserves

And bless the King of the ages,

That your Temple may be rebuilt with joy within you;

Within you he may comfort every exile,

Within you he may love all those who are distressed,

For all generations to come.

A bright light will shine

Over all the regions of the earth;

Many nations will come from far away,

From all the ends of the earth,

To dwell close to the holy name of the Lord God,

With gifts in their hands for the King of heaven.

Within you, generation after generation

Will proclaim their joy,

And the name of her who is Elect will endure

Through the generations to come.

Then you will exult and rejoice

over the children of the upright,

for they will all have been gathered in

and will bless the Lord of the ages.

Blessed are those who love you,

Blessed those who rejoice over your peace.

My soul blesses the Lord, the great King!

Because Jerusalem will be built anew

And his house for ever and ever.

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.

Gal. 2, 19-20

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ lives in me. The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

End Prayers here

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