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Tune : Attribis
Strict Abstinence
Theme of the day :
+ Jesus in the sepulchre.

Verse of the Day :

Matthew 28 : 2

Chapter 28

²	And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it.

Songs and Prayers of Holy Saturday

Psalms 151 : 1 - 7

Chapter 151

¹	I was small among my brothers,and the youngest in my father

²	My hands made a harp,my fingers fashioned a lyre.

³	And who will tell my Lord? The Lord himself; it is he who hears.

⁴	It was he who sent his messenger and took me from my father

⁵	My brothers were handsome and tall, but the Lord was not pleased with them.

⁶	I went out to meet the Philistine, and he cursed me by his idols.

⁷	But I drew his own sword, I beheaded him, and took away disgrace from the people of Israel.

Exodus 15 : 1 - 21

Chapter 15

¹	Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying: "I will sing to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!

²	The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father's God, and I will exalt Him.

³	The LORD is a man of war; The LORD is His name.

⁴	Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.

⁵	The depths have covered them; They sank to the bottom like a stone.

⁶	"Your right hand, O LORD, has become glorious in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has dashed the enemy in pieces.

⁷	And in the greatness of Your excellence You have overthrown those who rose against You; You sent forth Your wrath; It consumed them like stubble.

⁸	And with the blast of Your nostrils The waters were gathered together; The floods stood upright like a heap; The depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

⁹	The enemy said, "I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, My hand shall destroy them.'

¹⁰	You blew with Your wind, The sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

¹¹	"Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?

¹²	You stretched out Your right hand; The earth swallowed them.

¹³	You in Your mercy have led forth The people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength To Your holy habitation.

¹⁴	"The people will hear and be afraid; Sorrow will take hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.

¹⁵	Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; 1 The mighty men of Moab, Trembling will take hold of them; All the inhabitants of Canaan will melt away.

¹⁶	Fear and dread will fall on them; By the greatness of Your arm They will be as still as a stone, Till Your people pass over, O LORD, Till the people pass over Whom You have purchased.

¹⁷	You will bring them in and plant them In the mountain of Your inheritance, In the place, O LORD, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O LORD, which Your hands have established.

¹⁸	"The LORD shall reign forever and ever."

¹⁹	For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them. But the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

²⁰	Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

²¹	And Miriam answered them: "Sing to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!"

Deuteronomy 32 : 1 - 43

Chapter 32

¹	"Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

²	Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.

³	For I proclaim the name of the LORD: Ascribe greatness to our God.

⁴	He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.

⁵	"They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation.

⁶	Do you thus deal with the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

⁷	"Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you:

⁸	When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

⁹	For the LORD's portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

¹⁰	"He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.

¹¹	As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings,

¹²	So the LORD alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him.

¹³	"He made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock;

¹⁴	Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes.

¹⁵	"But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese! Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

¹⁶	They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

¹⁷	They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.

¹⁸	Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God who fathered you.

¹⁹	"And when the LORD saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

²⁰	And He said: "I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith.

²¹	They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

²²	For a fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²³	"I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them.

²⁴	They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust.

²⁵	The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

²⁶	I would have said, "I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,"

²⁷	Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand, Lest they should say, "Our hand is high; And it is not the LORD who has done all this."'

²⁸	"For they are a nation void of counsel, Nor is there any understanding in them.

²⁹	Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

³⁰	How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the LORD had surrendered them?

³¹	For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.

³²	For their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.

³³	Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of cobras.

³⁴	"Is this not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?

³⁵	Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.'

³⁶	"For the LORD will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, bond or free.

³⁷	He will say: "Where are their gods, The rock in which they sought refuge?

³⁸	Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge.

³⁹	"Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.

⁴⁰	For I raise My hand to heaven, And say, "As I live forever,

⁴¹	If I whet My glittering sword, And My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My enemies, And repay those who hate Me.

⁴²	I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword shall devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the heads of the leaders of the enemy."'

⁴³	"Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people."

1 Samuel 2 : 1 - 10

Chapter 2

¹	And Hannah prayed and said: "My heart rejoices in the LORD; My horn is exalted in the LORD. I smile at my enemies, Because I rejoice in Your salvation.

²	"No one is holy like the LORD, For there is none besides You, Nor is there any rock like our God.

³	"Talk no more so very proudly; Let no arrogance come from your mouth, For the LORD is the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed.

⁴	"The bows of the mighty men are broken, And those who stumbled are girded with strength.

⁵	Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, And the hungry have ceased to hunger. Even the barren has borne seven, And she who has many children has become feeble.

⁶	"The LORD kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up.

⁷	The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.

⁸	He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the beggar from the ash heap, To set them among princes And make them inherit the throne of glory. "For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, And He has set the world upon them.

⁹	He will guard the feet of His saints, But the wicked shall be silent in darkness. "For by strength no man shall prevail.

¹⁰	The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces; From heaven He will thunder against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth. "He will give strength to His king, And exalt the horn of His anointed."

Habakkuk 3 : 2 - 19

Chapter 3

²	O LORD, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.

³	God came from Teman, The Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of His praise.

⁴	His brightness was like the light; He had rays flashing from His hand, And there His power was hidden.

⁵	Before Him went pestilence, And fever followed at His feet.

⁶	He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations. And the everlasting mountains were scattered, The perpetual hills bowed. His ways are everlasting.

⁷	I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the land of Midian trembled.

⁸	O LORD, were You displeased with the rivers, Was Your anger against the rivers, Was Your wrath against the sea, That You rode on Your horses, Your chariots of salvation?

⁹	Your bow was made quite ready; Oaths were sworn over Your arrows. Selah You divided the earth with rivers.

¹⁰	The mountains saw You and trembled; The overflowing of the water passed by. The deep uttered its voice, And lifted its hands on high.

¹¹	The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; At the light of Your arrows they went, At the shining of Your glittering spear.

¹²	You marched through the land in indignation; You trampled the nations in anger.

¹³	You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For salvation with Your Anointed. You struck the head from the house of the wicked, By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah

¹⁴	You thrust through with his own arrows The head of his villages. They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me; Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.

¹⁵	You walked through the sea with Your horses, Through the heap of great waters.

¹⁶	When I heard, my body trembled; My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entered my bones; And I trembled in myself, That I might rest in the day of trouble. When he comes up to the people, He will invade them with his troops.

¹⁷	Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls--

¹⁸	Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

¹⁹	The LORD God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer's feet, And He will make me walk on my high hills. To the Chief Musician. With my stringed instruments.

Jonah 2 : 1 - 10

Chapter 2

¹	Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish's belly.

²	And he said: "I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, And He answered me. "Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice.

³	For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.

⁴	Then I said, "I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.'

⁵	The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶	I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD, my God.

⁷	"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple.

⁸	"Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy.

⁹	But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD."

¹⁰	So the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Isaiah 38 : 10 - 20

Chapter 38

¹⁰	I said, "In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years."

¹¹	I said, "I shall not see Yah, The LORD in the land of the living; I shall observe man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

¹²	My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me.

¹³	I have considered until morning--Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me.

¹⁴	Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed; Undertake for me!

¹⁵	"What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, And He Himself has done it. I shall walk carefully all my years In the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶	O Lord, by these things men live; And in all these things is the life of my spirit; So You will restore me and make me live.

¹⁷	Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

¹⁸	For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

¹⁹	The living, the living man, he shall praise You, As I do this day; The father shall make known Your truth to the children.

²⁰	"The LORD was ready to save me; Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life, in the house of the LORD."

Isaiah 26 : 9 - 20

Chapter 26

⁹	With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

¹⁰	Let grace be shown to the wicked, Yet he will not learn righteousness; In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, And will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

¹¹	LORD, when Your hand is lifted up, they will not see. But they will see and be ashamed For their envy of people; Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.

¹²	LORD, You will establish peace for us, For You have also done all our works in us.

¹³	O LORD our God, masters besides You Have had dominion over us; But by You only we make mention of Your name.

¹⁴	They are dead, they will not live; They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish.

¹⁵	You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You have expanded all the borders of the land.

¹⁶	LORD, in trouble they have visited You, They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

¹⁷	As a woman with child Is in pain and cries out in her pangs, When she draws near the time of her delivery, So have we been in Your sight, O LORD.

¹⁸	We have been with child, we have been in pain; We have, as it were, brought forth wind; We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth, Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

¹⁹	Your dead shall live; Together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew is like the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.

²⁰	Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, Until the indignation is past.

Isaiah 25 : 1 - 12

Chapter 25

¹	O LORD, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, For You have done wonderful things; Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

²	For You have made a city a ruin, A fortified city a ruin, A palace of foreigners to be a city no more; It will never be rebuilt.

³	Therefore the strong people will glorify You; The city of the terrible nations will fear You.

⁴	For You have been a strength to the poor, A strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat; For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

⁵	You will reduce the noise of aliens, As heat in a dry place; As heat in the shadow of a cloud, The song of the terrible ones will be diminished.

⁶	And in this mountain The LORD of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, Of well-refined wines on the lees.

⁷	And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations.

⁸	He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

⁹	And it will be said in that day: "Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the LORD; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation."

¹⁰	For on this mountain the hand of the LORD will rest, And Moab shall be trampled down under Him, As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap.

¹¹	And He will spread out His hands in their midst As a swimmer reaches out to swim, And He will bring down their pride Together with the trickery of their hands.

¹²	The fortress of the high fort of your walls He will bring down, lay low, And bring to the ground, down to the dust.

Isaiah 26 : 1 - 9

Chapter 26

¹	In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.

²	Open the gates, That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.

³	You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.

⁴	Trust in the LORD forever, For in Yah, the LORD, is everlasting strength.

⁵	For He brings down those who dwell on high, The lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He brings it down to the dust.

⁶	The foot shall tread it down--The feet of the poor And the steps of the needy."

⁷	The way of the just is uprightness; O Most Upright, You weigh the path of the just.

⁸	Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You; The desire of our soul is for Your name And for the remembrance of You.

⁹	With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Lamentations 5 : 16 - 22

Chapter 5

¹⁶	The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷	Because of this our heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes grow dim;

¹⁸	Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, With foxes walking about on it.

¹⁹	You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation.

²⁰	Why do You forget us forever, And forsake us for so long a time?

²¹	Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old,

²²	Unless You have utterly rejected us, And are very angry with us!

Baruch 2 : 11 - 15

Chapter 2

¹¹	And now, O Lord God of Israel, who hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with thy great power, and with a mighty arm, and hast made thee a name as at this day,

¹²	We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have acted unjustly, O Lord our God, against all thy justices.

¹³	Let thy wrath be turned away from us: for we are left a few among the nations where thou hast scattered us.

¹⁴	Hear, O Lord, our prayers, and our petitions, and deliver us for thy own sake: and grant that we may find favour in the sight of them that have led us away:

¹⁵	That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, and that thy name is called upon Israel, and upon his posterity.

1 Kings 18 : 36 - 39

Chapter 18

³⁶	And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, "LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word.

³⁷	Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that You are the LORD God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again."

³⁸	Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench.

³⁹	Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, "The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!"

1 Chronicles 29 : 10 - 13

Chapter 29

¹⁰	Therefore David blessed the LORD before all the assembly; and David said: "Blessed are You, LORD God of Israel, our Father, forever and ever.

¹¹	Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, The power and the glory, The victory and the majesty; For all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours; Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, And You are exalted as head over all.

¹²	Both riches and honor come from You, And You reign over all. In Your hand is power and might; In Your hand it is to make great And to give strength to all.

¹³	"Now therefore, our God, We thank You And praise Your glorious name.

1 Kings 8 : 22 - 30

Chapter 8

²²	Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

²³	and he said: "LORD God of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

²⁴	You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.

²⁵	Therefore, LORD God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your servant David my father, saying, "You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk before Me as you have walked before Me.'

²⁶	And now I pray, O God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant David my father.

²⁷	"But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!

²⁸	Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O LORD my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today:

²⁹	that Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, "My name shall be there,' that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.

³⁰	And may You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive.

Daniel 9 : 4 - 19

Chapter 9

⁴	And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments,

⁵	we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.

⁶	Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.

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O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day--to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

⁸	"O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

⁹	To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him.

¹⁰	We have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.

¹¹	Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.

¹²	And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

¹³	"As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

¹⁴	Therefore the LORD has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.

¹⁵	And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day--we have sinned, we have done wickedly!

¹⁶	"O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us.

¹⁷	Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the Lord's sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate.

¹⁸	O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies.

¹⁹	O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name."

Daniel 3 : 1 - 23

Chapter 3

¹	Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

²	And King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to gather together the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

So the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered together for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

⁴	Then a herald cried aloud: "To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,

⁵	that at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, you shall fall down and worship the gold image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up;

⁶	and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace."

⁷	So at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, harp, and lyre, in symphony with all kinds of music, all the people, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the gold image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

⁸	Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and accused the Jews.

⁹	They spoke and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!

¹⁰	You, O king, have made a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the gold image;

¹¹	and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

¹²	There are certain Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; these men, O king, have not paid due regard to you. They do not serve your gods or worship the gold image which you have set up."

¹³	Then Nebuchadnezzar, in rage and fury, gave the command to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. So they brought these men before the king.

¹⁴	Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying to them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the gold image which I have set up?

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Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, and you fall down and worship the image which I have made, good! But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?"

¹⁶	Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

¹⁷	If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.

¹⁸	But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up."

¹⁹	Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

²⁰	And he commanded certain mighty men of valor who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

²¹	Then these men were bound in their coats, their trousers, their turbans, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

²²	Therefore, because the king's command was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego.

²³	And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 3 : 31 - 90

Daniel 3 : 24 - 30

Chapter 3

²⁴	Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?" They answered and said to the king, "True, O king."

²⁵	"Look!" he answered, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."

²⁶	Then Nebuchadnezzar went near the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spoke, saying, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here." Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego came from the midst of the fire.

²⁷	And the satraps, administrators, governors, and the king's counselors gathered together, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them.

²⁸	Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God!

²⁹	Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; because there is no other God who can deliver like this."

³⁰	Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego in the province of Babylon.

Luke 1 : 46 - 55

Chapter 1

⁴⁶	And Mary said: "My soul magnifies the Lord,

⁴⁷	And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

⁴⁸	For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed.

⁴⁹	For He who is mighty has done great things for me, And holy is His name.

⁵⁰	And His mercy is on those who fear Him From generation to generation.

⁵¹	He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

⁵²	He has put down the mighty from their thrones, And exalted the lowly.

⁵³	He has filled the hungry with good things, And the rich He has sent away empty.

⁵⁴	He has helped His servant Israel, In remembrance of His mercy,

⁵⁵	As He spoke to our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed forever."

Luke 1 : 68 - 79

Chapter 1

⁶⁸	"Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited and redeemed His people,

⁶⁹	And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of His servant David,

⁷⁰	As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began,

⁷¹	That we should be saved from our enemies And from the hand of all who hate us,

⁷²	To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant,

⁷³	The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:

⁷⁴	To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear,

⁷⁵	In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

⁷⁶	"And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; For you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

⁷⁷	To give knowledge of salvation to His people By the remission of their sins,

⁷⁸	Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;

⁷⁹	To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace."

Luke 2 : 29 - 32

Chapter 2

²⁹	"Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, According to Your word;

³⁰	For my eyes have seen Your salvation

³¹	Which You have prepared before the face of all peoples,

³²	A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of Your people Israel."

First Hour

1 Corinthians 5 : 7 - 13

Chapter 5

⁷	Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

⁸	Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹	I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.

¹⁰	Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

¹¹	But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--not even to eat with such a person.

¹²	For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

¹³	But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."

Psalms 88 : 4,5

Chapter 88

⁴	I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man who has no strength,

⁵	Adrift among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And who are cut off from Your hand.

Psalms 44 : 23,26

Chapter 44

²³	Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever.

²⁶	Arise for our help, And redeem us for Your mercies' sake.

Psalms 126 : 2,3

Chapter 126

²	Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

³	The LORD has done great things for us, And we are glad.

Matthew 27 : 62 - 66

Chapter 27

⁶²	On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate,

⁶³	saying, "Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, "After three days I will rise.'

⁶⁴	Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, "He has risen from the dead.' So the last deception will be worse than the first."

⁶⁵	Pilate said to them, "You have a guard; go your way, make it as secure as you know how."

⁶⁶	So they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the guard.

Third Hour

Jeremiah 13 : 15 - 22

Chapter 13

¹⁵	Hear and give ear: Do not be proud, For the LORD has spoken.

¹⁶	Give glory to the LORD your God Before He causes darkness, And before your feet stumble On the dark mountains, And while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death And makes it dense darkness.

¹⁷	But if you will not hear it, My soul will weep in secret for your pride; My eyes will weep bitterly And run down with tears, Because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.

¹⁸	Say to the king and to the queen mother, "Humble yourselves; Sit down, For your rule shall collapse, the crown of your glory."

¹⁹	The cities of the South shall be shut up, And no one shall open them; Judah shall be carried away captive, all of it; It shall be wholly carried away captive.

²⁰	Lift up your eyes and see Those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, Your beautiful sheep?

²¹	What will you say when He punishes you? For you have taught them To be chieftains, to be head over you. Will not pangs seize you, Like a woman in labor?

²²	And if you say in your heart, "Why have these things come upon me?" For the greatness of your iniquity Your skirts have been uncovered, Your heels made bare.

Psalms 16 : 10,11

Chapter 16

¹⁰	For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

¹¹	You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Matthew 16 : 24 - 28

Chapter 16

²⁴	Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

²⁵	For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

²⁶	For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

²⁷	For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.

²⁸	Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."

Sixth hour of the day of Holy Saturday

Isaiah 50 : 10 - 51 : 8

Chapter 50

¹⁰	"Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness And has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD And rely upon his God.

¹¹	Look, all you who kindle a fire, Who encircle yourselves with sparks: Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled--This you shall have from My hand: You shall lie down in torment.

Chapter 51

¹	"Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.

²	Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him."

³	For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

⁴	"Listen to Me, My people; And give ear to Me, O My nation: For law will proceed from Me, And I will make My justice rest As a light of the peoples.

⁵	My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait upon Me, And on My arm they will trust.

⁶	Lift up your eyes to the heavens, And look on the earth beneath. For the heavens will vanish away like smoke, The earth will grow old like a garment, And those who dwell in it will die in like manner; But My salvation will be forever, And My righteousness will not be abolished.

⁷	"Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My law: Do not fear the reproach of men, Nor be afraid of their insults.

⁸	For the moth will eat them up like a garment, And the worm will eat them like wool; But My righteousness will be forever, And My salvation from generation to generation."

Psalms 130 : 1 - 2

Chapter 130

¹	Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD;

²	Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications.

Psalms 142 : 7

Chapter 142

⁷	Bring my soul out of prison, That I may praise Your name; The righteous shall surround me, For You shall deal bountifully with me."

Matthew 5 : 3 - 12

Chapter 5

³	"Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

⁴	Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.

⁵	Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.

⁶	Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

⁷	Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.

⁸	Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

⁹	Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.

¹⁰	Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

¹¹	"Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.

¹²	Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Revelation 1 : 1 - 20

Chapter 1

¹	The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants--things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John,

²	who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw.

³	Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.

⁴	John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne,

⁵	and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

⁶	and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

⁷	Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.

⁸	"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the Lord, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

⁹	I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰	I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,

¹¹	saying, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last," and, "What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

¹²	Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands,

¹³	and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band.

¹⁴	His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;

¹⁵	His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters;

¹⁶	He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

¹⁷	And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.

¹⁸	I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

¹⁹	Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.

²⁰	The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.

Revelation 2 : 1 - 29

Chapter 2

¹	"To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, "These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:

²	"I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;

³	and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name's sake and have not become weary.

⁴	Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

⁵	Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place--unless you repent.

⁶	But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

⁷	"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God."'

⁸	"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, "These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life:

⁹	"I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

¹⁰	Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

¹¹	"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death."'

¹²	"And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write, "These things says He who has the sharp two-edged sword:

¹³	"I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. And you hold fast to My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

¹⁴	But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

¹⁵	Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

¹⁶	Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.

¹⁷	"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it."'

¹⁸	"And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, "These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass:

¹⁹	"I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first.

²⁰	Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

²¹	And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.

²²	Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.

²³	I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.

²⁴	"Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden.

²⁵	But hold fast what you have till I come.

²⁶	And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations--

²⁷	"He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter's vessels'--as I also have received from My Father;

²⁸	and I will give him the morning star.

²⁹	"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."'

Revelation 3 : 1 - 22

Chapter 3

¹	"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, "These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.

²	Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God.

³	Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

⁴	You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.

⁵	He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

⁶	"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."'

⁷	"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, "These things says He who is holy, He who is true, "He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens":

⁸	"I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.

⁹	Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie--indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

¹⁰	Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

¹¹	Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.

¹²	He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.

¹³	"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."'

¹⁴	"And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, "These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:

¹⁵	"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.

¹⁶	So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

¹⁷	Because you say, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'--and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked--

¹⁸	I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

¹⁹	As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.

²⁰	Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

²¹	To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

²²	"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

Revelation 4 : 1 - 11

Chapter 4

¹	After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this."

²	Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.

³	And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.

⁴	Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads.

⁵	And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

⁶	Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.

⁷	The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature like a calf, the third living creature had a face like a man, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.

⁸	The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!"

⁹	Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

¹⁰	the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying:

¹¹	"You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created."

Revelation 5 : 1 - 14

Chapter 5

¹	And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.

²	Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?"

³	And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it.

⁴	So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it.

⁵	But one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals."

⁶	And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

⁷	Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

⁸	Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

⁹	And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

¹⁰	And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth."

¹¹	Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,

¹²	saying with a loud voice: "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain To receive power and riches and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and blessing!"

¹³	And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: "Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!"

¹⁴	Then the four living creatures said, "Amen!" And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever.

Revelation 6 : 1 - 17

Chapter 6

¹	Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, "Come and see."

²	And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.

³	When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come and see."

⁴	Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.

⁵	When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come and see." So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.

⁶	And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine."

⁷	When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see."

⁸	So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

⁹	When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.

¹⁰	And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

¹¹	Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.

¹²	I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.

¹³	And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.

¹⁴	Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.

¹⁵	And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,

¹⁶	and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!

¹⁷	For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"

Revelation 7 : 1 - 17

Chapter 7

¹	After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.

²	Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea,

³	saying, "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads."

⁴	And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:

⁵	of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed;

⁶	of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand were sealed;

⁷	of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand were sealed;

⁸	of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.

⁹	After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

¹⁰	and crying out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"

¹¹	All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

¹²	saying: "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, Thanksgiving and honor and power and might, Be to our God forever and ever. Amen."

¹³	Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, "Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?"

¹⁴	And I said to him, "Sir, you know." So he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁵	Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them.

¹⁶	They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat;

¹⁷	for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

Revelation 8 : 1 - 13

Chapter 8

¹	When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

²	And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.

³	Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

⁴	And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand.

⁵	Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake.

⁶	So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

⁷	The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

⁸	Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.

⁹	And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

¹⁰	Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

¹¹	The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.

¹²	Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.

¹³	And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!"

Revelation 9 : 1 - 21

Chapter 9

¹	Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.

²	And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.

³	Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

⁴	They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

⁵	And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.

⁶	In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

⁷	The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.

⁸	They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.

⁹	And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle.

¹⁰	They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months.

¹¹	And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

¹²	One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.

¹³	Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

¹⁴	saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."

¹⁵	So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.

¹⁶	Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.

¹⁷	And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.

¹⁸	By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed--by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.

¹⁹	For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.

²⁰	But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

²¹	And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Revelation 10 : 1 - 11

Chapter 10

¹	I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

²	He had a little book open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

³	and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars. When he cried out, seven thunders uttered their voices.

⁴	Now when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them."

⁵	The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised up his hand to heaven

⁶	and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be delay no longer,

⁷	but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.

⁸	Then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, "Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth."

⁹	So I went to the angel and said to him, "Give me the little book." And he said to me, "Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth."

¹⁰	Then I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.

¹¹	And he said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings."

Revelation 11 : 1 - 19

Chapter 11

¹	Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, "Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there.

²	But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.

³	And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."

⁴	These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth.

⁵	And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner.

⁶	These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.

⁷	When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.

⁸	And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

⁹	Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves.

¹⁰	And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

¹¹	Now after the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

¹²	And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.

¹³	In the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. In the earthquake seven thousand people were killed, and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven.

¹⁴	The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.

¹⁵	Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!"

¹⁶	And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,

¹⁷	saying: "We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.

¹⁸	The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the earth."

¹⁹	Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail.

Revelation 12 : 1 - 17

Chapter 12

¹	Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.

²	Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.

³	And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.

⁴	His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.

⁵	She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne.

⁶	Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

⁷	And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,

⁸	but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.

⁹	So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

¹⁰	Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

¹¹	And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

¹²	Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time."

¹³	Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child.

¹⁴	But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

¹⁵	So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.

¹⁶	But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

¹⁷	And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 13 : 1 - 18

Chapter 13

¹	Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name.

²	Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

³	And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.

⁴	So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"

⁵	And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.

⁶	Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.

⁷	It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.

⁸	All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

⁹	If anyone has an ear, let him hear.

¹⁰	He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

¹¹	Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.

¹²	And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

¹³	He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.

¹⁴	And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.

¹⁵	He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

¹⁶	He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,

¹⁷	and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

¹⁸	Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

Revelation 14 : 1 - 20

Chapter 14

¹	Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father's name written on their foreheads.

²	And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps.

³	They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.

⁴	These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

⁵	And in their mouth was found no deceit, for they are without fault before the throne of God.

⁶	Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth--to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people--

⁷	saying with a loud voice, "Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water."

⁸	And another angel followed, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication."

⁹	Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand,

¹⁰	he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

¹¹	And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name."

¹²	Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

¹³	Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on."'"Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them."

¹⁴	Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle.

¹⁵	And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, "Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe."

¹⁶	So He who sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.

¹⁷	Then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

¹⁸	And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe."

¹⁹	So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

²⁰	And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses' bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs.

Revelation 15 : 1 - 8

Chapter 15

¹	Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.

²	And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.

³	They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!

⁴	Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, For Your judgments have been manifested."

⁵	After these things I looked, and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.

⁶	And out of the temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues, clothed in pure bright linen, and having their chests girded with golden bands.

⁷	Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever.

⁸	The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power, and no one was able to enter the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

Revelation 16 : 1 - 21

Chapter 16

¹	Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth."

²	So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image.

³	Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living creature in the sea died.

⁴	Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

⁵	And I heard the angel of the waters saying: "You are righteous, O Lord, The One who is and who was and who is to be, Because You have judged these things.

⁶	For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, And You have given them blood to drink. For it is their just due."

⁷	And I heard another from the altar saying, "Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments."

⁸	Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire.

⁹	And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.

¹⁰	Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain.

¹¹	They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.

¹²	Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.

¹³	And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

¹⁴	For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

¹⁵	"Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame."

¹⁶	And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.

¹⁷	Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!"

¹⁸	And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth.

¹⁹	Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.

²⁰	Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

²¹	And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.

Revelation 17 : 1 - 18

Chapter 17

¹	Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters,

²	with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication."

³	So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

⁴	The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.

⁵	And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

⁶	I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

⁷	But the angel said to me, "Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

⁸	The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

⁹	"Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

¹⁰	There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time.

¹¹	The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition.

¹²	"The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast.

¹³	These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.

¹⁴	These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful."

¹⁵	Then he said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.

¹⁶	And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

¹⁷	For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.

¹⁸	And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth."

Revelation 18 : 1 - 24

Chapter 18

¹	After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory.

²	And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!

³	For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury."

⁴	And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.

⁵	For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

⁶	Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.

⁷	In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, "I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.'

⁸	Therefore her plagues will come in one day--death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

⁹	"The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

¹⁰	standing at a distance for fear of her torment, saying, "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.'

¹¹	"And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore:

¹²	merchandise of gold and silver, precious stones and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, every kind of citron wood, every kind of object of ivory, every kind of object of most precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;

¹³	and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.

¹⁴	The fruit that your soul longed for has gone from you, and all the things which are rich and splendid have gone from you, and you shall find them no more at all.

¹⁵	The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, will stand at a distance for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

¹⁶	and saying, "Alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!

¹⁷	For in one hour such great riches came to nothing.' Every shipmaster, all who travel by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance

¹⁸	and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, "What is like this great city?'

¹⁹	"They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, "Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate.'

²⁰	"Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her!"

²¹	Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore.

²²	The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters shall not be heard in you anymore. No craftsman of any craft shall be found in you anymore, and the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you anymore.

²³	The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

²⁴	And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth."

Revelation 19 : 1 - 21

Chapter 19

¹	After these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God!

²	For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her."

³	Again they said, "Alleluia! Her smoke rises up forever and ever!"

⁴	And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying, "Amen! Alleluia!"

⁵	Then a voice came from the throne, saying, "Praise our God, all you His servants and those who fear Him, both small and great!"

⁶	And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, "Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!

⁷	Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready."

⁸	And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

⁹	Then he said to me, "Write: "Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!"' And he said to me, "These are the true sayings of God."

¹⁰	And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

¹¹	Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.

¹²	His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself.

¹³	He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.

¹⁴	And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.

¹⁵	Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

¹⁶	And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

¹⁷	Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, "Come and gather together for the supper of the great God,

¹⁸	that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great."

¹⁹	And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.

²⁰	Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

²¹	And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh.

Revelation 20 : 1 - 15

Chapter 20

¹	Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

²	He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

³	and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

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And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

⁵	But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

⁶	Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

⁷	Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison

⁸	and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

⁹	They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.

¹⁰	The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

¹¹	Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them.

¹²	And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.

¹³	The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.

¹⁴	Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

¹⁵	And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21 : 1 - 27

Chapter 21

¹	Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.

²	Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

³	And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.

⁴	And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."

⁵	Then He who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." And He said to me, "Write, for these words are true and faithful."

⁶	And He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.

⁷	He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.

⁸	But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

⁹	Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife."

¹⁰	And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

¹¹	having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.

¹²	Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

¹³	three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.

¹⁴	Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵	And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.

¹⁶	The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.

¹⁷	Then he measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

¹⁸	The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

¹⁹	The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

²⁰	the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

²¹	The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

²²	But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

²³	The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.

²⁴	And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.

²⁵	Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there).

²⁶	And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.

²⁷	But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Revelation 22 : 1 - 21

Chapter 22

¹	And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

²	In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

³	And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.

⁴	They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.

⁵	There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

⁶	Then he said to me, "These words are faithful and true." And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly take place.

⁷	"Behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book."

⁸	Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.

⁹	Then he said to me, "See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."

¹⁰	And he said to me, "Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

¹¹	He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still."

¹²	"And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.

¹³	I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last."

¹⁴	Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

¹⁵	But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

¹⁶	"I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star."

¹⁷	And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

¹⁸	For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;

¹⁹	and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

²⁰	He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming quickly." Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

²¹	The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Ninth hour of the day of Holy Saturday

Isaiah 45 : 15 - 20

Chapter 45

¹⁵	Truly You are God, who hide Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior!

¹⁶	They shall be ashamed And also disgraced, all of them; They shall go in confusion together, Who are makers of idols.

¹⁷	But Israel shall be saved by the LORD With an everlasting salvation; You shall not be ashamed or disgraced Forever and ever.

¹⁸	For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: "I am the LORD, and there is no other.

¹⁹	I have not spoken in secret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, "Seek Me in vain'; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

²⁰	"Assemble yourselves and come; Draw near together, You who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray to a god that cannot save.

Jeremiah 31 : 31 - 34

Chapter 31

³¹	"Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah--

³²	not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.

³³	But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

³⁴	No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, "Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

Psalms 41 : 10,5

Chapter 41

¹⁰	But You, O LORD, be merciful to me, and raise me up, That I may repay them.

⁵	My enemies speak evil of me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

John 5 : 21 - 30

Chapter 5

²¹	For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.

²²	For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,

²³	that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

²⁴	"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

²⁵	Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.

²⁶	For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself,

²⁷	and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.

²⁸	Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice

²⁹	and come forth--those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

³⁰	I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

Holy Saturday Liturgy

1 Corinthians 15 : 1 - 23

Chapter 15

¹	Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand,

²	by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

³	For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

⁴	and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

⁵	and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.

⁶	After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.

⁷	After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.

⁸	Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

⁹	For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

¹⁰	But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

¹¹	Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

¹²	Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹³	But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.

¹⁴	And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.

¹⁵	Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up--if in fact the dead do not rise.

¹⁶	For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.

¹⁷	And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!

¹⁸	Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

¹⁹	If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

²⁰	But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

²¹	For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.

²²	For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

²³	But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming.

1 Peter 1 : 1 - 9

Chapter 1

¹	Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

²	elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

³	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁴	to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

⁵	who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

⁶	In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,

⁷	that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

⁸	whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

⁹	receiving the end of your faith--the salvation of your souls.

Acts 3 : 12 - 21

Chapter 3

¹²	So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: "Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

¹³	The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go.

¹⁴	But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

¹⁵	and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

¹⁶	And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

¹⁷	"Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

¹⁸	But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

¹⁹	Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

²⁰	and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before,

²¹	whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

Psalms 3 : 5,3

Chapter 3

⁵	I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustained me.

³	But You, O LORD, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.

Psalms 82 : 8

Chapter 82

⁸	Arise, O God, judge the earth; For You shall inherit all nations.

Matthew 28 : 1 - 20

Chapter 28

¹	Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

²	And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it.

³	His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.

⁴	And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men.

⁵	But the angel answered and said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

⁶	He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

⁷	And go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead, and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him. Behold, I have told you."

⁸	So they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word.

⁹	And as they went to tell His disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Rejoice!" So they came and held Him by the feet and worshiped Him.

¹⁰	Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell My brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see Me."

¹¹	Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city and reported to the chief priests all the things that had happened.

¹²	When they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

¹³	saying, "Tell them, "His disciples came at night and stole Him away while we slept.'

¹⁴	And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will appease him and make you secure."

¹⁵	So they took the money and did as they were instructed; and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

¹⁶	Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them.

¹⁷	When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.

¹⁸	And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

¹⁹	Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

²⁰	teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

Psalms 68 : 1

Chapter 68

¹	Let God arise, Let His enemies be scattered; Let those also who hate Him flee before Him.

Luke 24 : 1 - 12

Chapter 24

¹	Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.

²	But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

³	Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

⁴	And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.

⁵	Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

⁶	He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,

⁷	saying, "The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again."'

⁸	And they remembered His words.

⁹	Then they returned from the tomb and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

¹⁰	It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, who told these things to the apostles.

¹¹	And their words seemed to them like idle tales, and they did not believe them.

¹²	But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened.

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Synaxarium

Day 10 of the Blessed Coptic Month of Baramoudah, may God make it always received, year after year, with reassurance and tranquility, while our sins after forgiven by the tender mercies of our God my fathers and brothers.
Amen.

The Tenth Day of the Blessed Month of Baramoudah

Departure of Anba Isaac, the Disciple of Anba Apollo

On this day the holy father Anba Isaac the Disciple of the great father Anba Apollo, departed. This holy man renounced the world since his young age. He became a monk in the wilderness of Sheahat (Scetis), and a disciple of Anba Apollo for twenty five years. He fought a strenuous fight that weakened his body to kill his body desires, and control his will. He mastered the virtue of silence and quietness especially during the prayers and the Liturgies. He used to stand during the liturgy with his hands clasped and his head bent until the end of the prayer then he returned to his cell, shutting his door, and did not associate with any one that day. When they asked him: "Why do you not talk to anyone who wish to talk to you during prayers or the Liturgy?" He answered saying: "There is time for talking and there is time for praying." When his departure drew near the fathers the monks gathered around him to receive his blessing and they asked him: "Why did you flee from men." He answered them: "I was not fleeing from men but from Satan. If a man hold a lighted lamp in the wind, it will be extinguished. So, it is with us when our hearts and minds shine because of the prayers and the Liturgy then we talk with each other, our hearts and minds become dark." And this holy father having finished his good spiritual strife, departed in peace.

May his prayers be with us. Amen.

Departure of Pope Gabriel II, the Seventy Pope of Alexandria, who was known as Ibn Turaik

On this day also of the year 861 A.M. (April 5th., 1145 A.D.) the great and holy father Pope Gabriel II, the seventy Pope of the See of St. Mark, who was known as Ibn Turaik, departed. This Pope was from the nobles of Cairo, and he was a writer, scribe, distinguished scholar, with a commendable conduct. He transcribed with his hand many Arabic and Coptic books, he retained its contents and comprehended its interpretations. The elders of the people and the clergy chose him for the Patriarchal Chair, and his enthronement was on the 9th. of Amshir, 847 A.M. (February 3rd., 1131 A.D.). When he prayed his first Divine Liturgy in St. Macarius monastery as the custom of the previous Patriarchs, at the end of the Liturgy, he added to the profession after the saying: "I believe and confess to the last breath, that this is the life-giving Flesh that Thine Only-Begotten Son, our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ, took from our Lady, the Lady of us all, the holy Mother of God, Saint Mary," this sentence "He made it one with His Divinity." The monks objected, lest it would be understood from that there was mingling between His Divinity and His Humanity, and asked him to refrain from using it. He refused saying: "This statement was added by a decree from the council of bishops." After a great and lengthy discussion, they decided to add this sentence: "Without mingling, without confusion, and without alteration," because of the fear of falling in the heresy of Eutyches, and he agreed with them. During his papacy, he ordained 53 bishops and many priests, he drew up Canons and laws concerning inheritance, and many other matters. He never took any money from anyone, nor he touched the revenue of the churches, or that of the religious endowments for the poor. When the governor of that time asked him for money, the nobles and people collected three hundred Dinars in gold and gave them to the governor on his behalf. He remained on the Episcopal Chair for fourteen years, two month and two days, then departed in peace.

May his prayers be with us and glory be to God forever. Amen.

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