The Fourth Sunday in Advent.
Psalm
5
Verba mea auribus.
PONDER my words, O Lord : consider my meditation
2. O hearken thou unto the voice of my calling, my King, and my God :
for unto thee will I make my prayer.
3. My voice shalt thou hear betimes, O Lord : early in the morning will
I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
4. For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickedness : neither
shall any devil dwell with thee.
5. Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight : for thou hatest
all of them that work vanity.
6. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing : the Lord will abhor
both the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
7. But as for me, I will come into thine house, even upon the multitude
of thy mercy : and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
8. Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness, because of mine enemies :
make thy way plain before my face.
9. For there is no faithfulness in his mouth : their inward parts are
very wickedness.
10. Their throat is an open sepulchre : they flatter with their tongue.
11. Destroy thou them, O God; let them perish through their own
imaginations : cast them out in the multitude of their ungodliness; for they
have rebelled against thee.
12. And let all them that put their trust in thee rejoice : they shall
ever be giving of thanks, because thou defendest them; they that love thy Name
shall be joyful in thee;
13. For thou, Lord, wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous : and
with thy favourable kindness wilt thou defend him as with a shield.
The Collect.
O LORD, raise up (we pray thee)
thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas,
through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let* and hindered in running the
race that is set before us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and
deliver us; through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord, to whom with thee and
the Holy Ghost be honour and glory, world without end. Amen.
*“Let” – archaic: to impede or obstruct.
The
Collect from the First Sunday in Advent is to be repeated every day, with the
other Collects in Advent, until Christmas-Eve:
ALMIGHTY God, give us grace
that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of
light, now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ came
to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again
in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to
the life immortal; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy
Ghost, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 40.1-11
Psalter: Morning-98, 99; Evening-101,
103
Epistle Reading: Philippians 4.4-7
Gospel Reading: St. John 1.19-28
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