Sunday, October 17, 2010
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Eccliasticus 4:1-10</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">My child, do not cheat the poor of their living,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and do not keep needy eyes waiting. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not grieve the hungry,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> or anger one in need. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not add to the troubles of the desperate,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> or delay giving to the needy. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not reject a suppliant in distress,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> or turn your face away from the poor. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not avert your eye from the needy,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and give no one reason to curse you; </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">for if in bitterness of soul some should curse you,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> their Creator will hear their prayer. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Endear yourself to the congregation;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> bow your head low to the great. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Give a hearing to the poor,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and return their greeting politely. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Rescue the oppressed from the oppressor;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and do not be hesitant in giving a verdict. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Be a father to orphans,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and be like a husband to their mother;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">you will then be like a son of the Most High,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and he will love you more than does your mother.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">1 Corinthians 10:1-13</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,* that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.’ We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ* to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall. No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Matthew 16:13-20</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ He said to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah,* the Son of the living God.’ And Jesus answered him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter,* and on this rock* I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.’ Then he sternly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was* the Messiah.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Morning Psalms: Psalm 148, 149, 150</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Psalm 148</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise the Lord!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise the Lord from the heavens;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> praise him in the heights! </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise him, all his angels;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> praise him, all his host! </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise him, sun and moon;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> praise him, all you shining stars! </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise him, you highest heavens,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and you waters above the heavens! </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Let them praise the name of the Lord,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for he commanded and they were created. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">He established them for ever and ever;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> he fixed their bounds, which cannot be passed.* </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise the Lord from the earth,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> you sea monsters and all deeps, </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">fire and hail, snow and frost,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> stormy wind fulfilling his command! </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Mountains and all hills,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> fruit trees and all cedars! </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Wild animals and all cattle,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> creeping things and flying birds! </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Kings of the earth and all peoples,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> princes and all rulers of the earth! </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Young men and women alike,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> old and young together! </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Let them praise the name of the Lord,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for his name alone is exalted;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> his glory is above earth and heaven. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">He has raised up a horn for his people,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> praise for all his faithful,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for the people of Israel who are close to him.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise the Lord!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Psalm 149</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise the Lord!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Sing to the Lord a new song,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> his praise in the assembly of the faithful. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Let Israel be glad in its Maker;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> let the children of Zion rejoice in their King. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Let them praise his name with dancing,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> making melody to him with tambourine and lyre. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> he adorns the humble with victory. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Let the faithful exult in glory;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> let them sing for joy on their couches. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Let the high praises of God be in their throats</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and two-edged swords in their hands, </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">to execute vengeance on the nations</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and punishment on the peoples, </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">to bind their kings with fetters</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and their nobles with chains of iron, </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">to execute on them the judgement decreed.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> This is glory for all his faithful ones.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise the Lord!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Psalm 150</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise the Lord!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise God in his sanctuary;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> praise him in his mighty firmament!* </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise him for his mighty deeds;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> praise him according to his surpassing greatness! </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise him with trumpet sound;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> praise him with lute and harp! </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise him with tambourine and dance;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> praise him with strings and pipe! </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise him with clanging cymbals;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> praise him with loud clashing cymbals! </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Evening Psalms: Psalm 114, 115</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Psalm 114</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">When Israel went out from Egypt,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Judah became God’s* sanctuary,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> Israel his dominion. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">The sea looked and fled;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> Jordan turned back. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">The mountains skipped like rams,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> the hills like lambs. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Why is it, O sea, that you flee?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> O Jordan, that you turn back? </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">O mountains, that you skip like rams?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> O hills, like lambs? </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> at the presence of the God of Jacob, </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">who turns the rock into a pool of water,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> the flint into a spring of water.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Psalm 115</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Why should the nations say,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> ‘Where is their God?’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Our God is in the heavens;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> he does whatever he pleases. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Their idols are silver and gold,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> the work of human hands. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">They have mouths, but do not speak;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> eyes, but do not see. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">They have ears, but do not hear;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> noses, but do not smell. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">They have hands, but do not feel;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> feet, but do not walk;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> they make no sound in their throats. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Those who make them are like them;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> so are all who trust in them. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">O Israel, trust in the Lord!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> He is their help and their shield. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> He is their help and their shield. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> He is their help and their shield. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">The Lord has been mindful of us; he will bless us;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> he will bless the house of Israel;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> he will bless the house of Aaron; </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">he will bless those who fear the Lord,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> both small and great. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">May the Lord give you increase,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> both you and your children. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">May you be blessed by the Lord,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> who made heaven and earth. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">The heavens are the Lord’s heavens,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> but the earth he has given to human beings. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">The dead do not praise the Lord,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> nor do any that go down into silence. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">But we will bless the Lord</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> from this time on and for evermore.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Praise the Lord!</p>
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