Friday 1 October 2010<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><!--StartFragment-->
<p class="MsoNormal">DAILY LECTIONARY</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hosea 10:1-15<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Israel is a luxuriant vine</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>that yields its fruit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The more his fruit increased</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the more altars he built;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as his country improved,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>he improved his pillars.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Their heart is false;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>now they must bear their guilt.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord * will break down their altars,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and destroy their pillars.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For now they will say:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘We have no king,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">for we do not fear the Lord,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and a king—what could he do for us?’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They utter mere words;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>with empty oaths they make covenants;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so litigation springs up like poisonous weeds</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>in the furrows of the field.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The inhabitants of Samaria tremble</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for the calf* of Beth-aven.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Its people shall mourn for it,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and its idolatrous priests shall wail* over it,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>over its glory that has departed from it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>as tribute to the great king.*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ephraim shall be put to shame,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.*</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Samaria’s king shall perish</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>like a splinter on the face of the waters.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>shall be destroyed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thorn and thistle shall grow up</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>on their altars.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They shall say to the mountains, Cover us,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and to the hills, Fall on us.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>there they have continued.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Shall not war overtake them in Gibeah?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I will come* against the wayward people to punish them;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and nations shall be gathered against them</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>when they are punished* for their double iniquity.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ephraim was a trained heifer</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>that loved to thresh,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and I spared her fair neck;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">but I will make Ephraim break the ground;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Judah must plough;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jacob must harrow for himself.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sow for yourselves righteousness;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>reap steadfast love;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>break up your fallow ground;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">for it is time to seek the Lord,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You have ploughed wickedness,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>you have reaped injustice,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>you have eaten the fruit of lies.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because you have trusted in your power</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and in the multitude of your warriors,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">therefore the tumult of war shall rise against your people,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>when mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>because of your great wickedness.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At dawn the king of Israel</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>shall be utterly cut off.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Acts 21:37-22:16</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just as Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the tribune, ‘May I say something to you?’ The tribune* replied, ‘Do you know Greek? Then you are not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?’ Paul replied, ‘I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of an important city; I beg you, let me speak to the people.’ When he had given him permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the people for silence; and when there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew* language, saying:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">‘Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence that I now make before you.’</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>When they heard him addressing them in Hebrew,* they became even more quiet. Then he said:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated strictly according to our ancestral law, being zealous for God, just as all of you are today. I persecuted this Way up to the point of death by binding both men and women and putting them in prison, as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I went there in order to bind those who were there and to bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘While I was on my way and approaching Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly shone about me. I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” I answered, “Who are you, Lord?” Then he said to me, “I am Jesus of Nazareth* whom you are persecuting.” Now those who were with me saw the light but did not hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me. I asked, “What am I to do, Lord?” The Lord said to me, “Get up and go to Damascus; there you will be told everything that has been assigned to you to do.” Since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, those who were with me took my hand and led me to Damascus.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘A certain Ananias, who was a devout man according to the law and well spoken of by all the Jews living there, came to me; and standing beside me, he said, “Brother Saul, regain your sight!” In that very hour I regained my sight and saw him. Then he said, “The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear his own voice; for you will be his witness to all the world of what you have seen and heard. And now why do you delay? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Luke 6:12-26</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Then he looked up at his disciples and said:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Blessed are you who are poor,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for yours is the kingdom of God.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Blessed are you who are hungry now,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for you will be filled.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Blessed are you who weep now,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for you will laugh.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you* on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice on that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘But woe to you who are rich,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for you have received your consolation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Woe to you who are full now,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for you will be hungry.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Woe to you who are laughing now,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for you will mourn and weep.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Morning Psalms: Psalm 102</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 102</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hear my prayer, O Lord;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>let my cry come to you.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Do not hide your face from me</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>on the day of my distress.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Incline your ear to me;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>answer me speedily on the day when I call.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For my days pass away like smoke,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and my bones burn like a furnace.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My heart is stricken and withered like grass;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am too wasted to eat my bread.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because of my loud groaning</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>my bones cling to my skin.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am like an owl of the wilderness,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>like a little owl of the waste places.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I lie awake;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All day long my enemies taunt me;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>those who deride me use my name for a curse.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For I eat ashes like bread,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and mingle tears with my drink,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">because of your indignation and anger;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My days are like an evening shadow;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I wither away like grass.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But you, O Lord, are enthroned for ever;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>your name endures to all generations.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for it is time to favour it;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the appointed time has come.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For your servants hold its stones dear,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and have pity on its dust.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The nations will fear the name of the Lord,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and all the kings of the earth your glory.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the Lord will build up Zion;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>he will appear in his glory.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He will regard the prayer of the destitute,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and will not despise their prayer.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let this be recorded for a generation to come,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that he looked down from his holy height,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to hear the groans of the prisoners,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to set free those who were doomed to die;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so that the name of the Lord may be declared in Zion,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and his praise in Jerusalem,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">when peoples gather together,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and kingdoms, to worship the Lord.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">He has broken my strength in mid-course;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>he has shortened my days.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘O my God,’ I say, ‘do not take me away</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>at the mid-point of my life,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">you whose years endure</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>throughout all generations.’</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and the heavens are the work of your hands.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They will perish, but you endure;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>they will all wear out like a garment.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You change them like clothing, and they pass away;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>but you are the same, and your years have no end.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The children of your servants shall live secure;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>their offspring shall be established in your presence.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Evening Psalms: Psalm 107:1-32</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 107:1-32</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for his steadfast love endures for ever.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>those he redeemed from trouble</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and gathered in from the lands,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>from the east and from the west,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>from the north and from the south.*</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some wandered in desert wastes,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>finding no way to an inhabited town;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">hungry and thirsty,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>their soul fainted within them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and he delivered them from their distress;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">he led them by a straight way,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>until they reached an inhabited town.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for his wonderful works to humankind.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For he satisfies the thirsty,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and the hungry he fills with good things.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some sat in darkness and in gloom,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>prisoners in misery and in irons,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">for they had rebelled against the words of God,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and spurned the counsel of the Most High.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Their hearts were bowed down with hard labour;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>they fell down, with no one to help.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and he saved them from their distress;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">he brought them out of darkness and gloom,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and broke their bonds asunder.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for his wonderful works to humankind.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For he shatters the doors of bronze,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and cuts in two the bars of iron.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some were sick* through their sinful ways,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and because of their iniquities endured affliction;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">they loathed any kind of food,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and they drew near to the gates of death.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and he saved them from their distress;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">he sent out his word and healed them,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and delivered them from destruction.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for his wonderful works to humankind.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And let them offer thanksgiving sacrifices,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and tell of his deeds with songs of joy.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some went down to the sea in ships,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>doing business on the mighty waters;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">they saw the deeds of the Lord,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>his wondrous works in the deep.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For he commanded and raised the stormy wind,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>which lifted up the waves of the sea.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>their courage melted away in their calamity;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">they reeled and staggered like drunkards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and were at their wits’ end.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and he brought them out from their distress;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">he made the storm be still,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and the waves of the sea were hushed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then they were glad because they had quiet,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and he brought them to their desired haven.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for his wonderful works to humankind.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let them extol him in the congregation of the people,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and praise him in the assembly of the elders.</p>
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